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is used of coins and metals in the Sept.; in Gen. 23:16, “four hundred didrachms of silver
approved with merchants”; in Zech. 11:13, in regard to the 30 pieces of silver, “Cast them
into a furnace and I will see if it is good (approved) metal.”
APRON
(
&
, 4612), “a thing girded round half the body” (Latin,
$
), was a narrow apron, or linen covering, worn by workmen and servants,
Acts 19:12.¶
For
APT
see
TEACH
, B
ARCHANGEL
(
$ 1
, 743) “is not found in the OT, and in the NT only in 1
Thess. 4:16 and Jude 9, where it is used of Michael, who in Daniel is called ‘one of the
chief princes,’ and ‘the great prince’ (Sept., ‘the great angel’), 10:13, 21; 12:1. Cf. also
Rev. 12:7.… Whether there are other beings of this exalted rank in the heavenly hosts,
Scripture does not say, though the description ‘one of the chief princes’ suggests that this
may be the case; cf. also Rom. 8:38; Eph. 1:21; Col. 1:16, where the word translated
‘principalities’ is
, the prefix in archangel.”* In 1 Thess. 4:16 the meaning seems to
be that the voice of the Lord Jesus will be of the character of an “archangelic” shout.¶
For
ARIGHT
(
RV
of
2 Tim. 2:15
) see
HANDLE
, No. 5
ARISE, AROSE, AROUSE, RAISE, RISE, ROUSE
1.
(
&
, 450), “to stand up or to make to stand up,” according as its use
is intransitive or transitive ( , “up,”
, “to stand”), is used (a) of a physical
change of position, e.g., of “rising” from sleep, Mark 1:35; from a meeting in a
synagogue, Luke 4:29; of the illegal “rising” of the high priest in the tribunal in Matt.
26:62; of an invalid “rising” from his couch, Luke 5:25; the “rising” up of a disciple from
his vocation to follow Christ, Luke 5:28; cf. John 11:31; “rising” up from prayer, Luke
22:45; of a whole company, Acts 26:30; 1 Cor. 10:7; (b) metaphorically, of “rising” up
antagonistically against persons, e.g. of officials against people, Acts 5:17; of a seditious
leader, 5:36, of the “rising” up of Satan, Mark 3:26; of false teachers, Acts 20:30; (c) of
“rising” to a position of preeminence or power; e.g., of Christ as a prophet, Acts 3:22;
7:37; as God’s servant in the midst of the nation of Israel, Acts 3:26; as the Son of God in
the midst of the nation, 13:33 (not here of resurrection, but with reference to the
Incarnation: the
KJV
“again” has nothing corresponding to it in the original, it was added
as a misinterpretation: the mention of His resurrection is in the next verse, in which it is
stressed by way of contrast and by the addition, “from the dead”); as a priest, Heb. 7:11,
15; as king over the nations, Rom. 15:12; (d) of a spiritual awakening from lethargy, Eph.
5:14; (e) of resurrection from the dead: (1) of the resurrection of Christ, Matt. 17:9;
20:19; Mark 8:31; 9:9-10, 31; 10:34; Luke 18:33; 24:7, 46; John 20:9; Acts 2:24, 32;