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to himself and his travelling companions, Acts 20:13; of what the apostle “ordained” in
all the churches in regard to marital conditions, 1 Cor. 7:17; of what the Lord “ordained”
in regard to the support of those who proclaimed the gospel, 1 Cor. 9:14; of the Law as
divinely “ordained,” or administered, through angels, by Moses, Gal. 3:19.
In Titus 1:5,
KJV
, “had appointed thee,” the sense is rather that of commanding,
RV
,
“gave thee charge. See
COMMAND
, No. 1,
ORDAIN
,
ORDER
.
7.
$
(
1
, 4929),
$
, “with,” and No. 5, lit., “to arrange together with”,
hence “to appoint, prescribe,” is used twice, in Matt. 26:19 of what the Lord “appointed”
for His disciples, and in 27:10, in a quotation concerning the price of the potter’s field.¶
8.
(
$ 1
, 4384),
, “before,” and No. 5, “to appoint before,” is used
in Acts 17:26 (
RV
, “appointed”), of the seasons arranged by God for nations, and the
bounds of their habitation.¶
9.
(
, 2749), “to lie,” is used in 1 Thess. 3:3 of the “appointment” of
affliction for faithful believers. It is rendered “set” in Luke 2:34 and Phil. 1:16,
RV
, where
the sense is the same. The verb is a perfect tense, used for the perfect passive of
,
“to place,” “I have been placed,” i.e., “I lie.” See
LAY
,
LIE
,
MADE
(
BE
),
SET
.
10.
(
, 606),
, “from,” and No. 9, signifies “to be laid,
reserved,” Luke 19:20; Col. 1:5; 2 Tim. 4:8; “appointed,” in Heb. 9:27, where it is said of
death and the judgment following (
RV
, marg., “laid up”). See
LAY
.¶
11.
(
$
!
, 5500), primarily used of voting in the Athenian
legislative assembly and meaning “to stretch forth the hands” (
, “the hand,”
,
“to stretch”), is not to be taken in its literal sense; it could not be so taken in its compound
, “to choose before,” since it is said of God, Acts 10:41.
)
is
said of “the appointment” of elders by apostolic missionaries in the various churches
which they revisited, Acts 14:23,
RV
, “had appointed,” i.e., by the recognition of those
who had been manifesting themselves as gifted of God to discharge the functions of
elders (see No. 2). It is also said of those who were “appointed” (not by voting, but with
general approbation) by the churches in Greece to accompany the apostle in conveying
their gifts to the poor saints in Judea, 2 Cor. 8:19. See
CHOOSE
,
ORDAIN
.¶
12.
(
$ $&
, 4400), from
, “at hand,” signifies (a) “to
deliver up, appoint,” Acts 3:20 (
RV
, “appointed”); (b) in the middle voice, “to take into
one’s hand, to determine, appoint beforehand,” translated “appointed” in Acts 22:14,
RV
(for
KJV
, “hath chosen”), and “to appoint” in 26:16 (for
KJV
, “to make”).¶
13.
(
3$&
, 3724), (Eng., “horizon”), lit., “to mark by a limit,” hence, “to
determine, ordain,” is used of Christ as ordained of God to be a judge of the living and
the dead, Acts 17:31; of His being “marked out” as the Son of God, Rom. 1:4; of divinely
appointed seasons, Acts 17:26, “having determined.” See
DEFINE
.
14.
$
(
&
, 322), lit., “to show up, to show clearly,” also
signifies “to appoint to a position or a service”; it is used in this sense of the 70 disciples,
Luke 10:1; for the meaning “show,” see Acts 1:24.¶