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interest in the result of his act. Thus it is used, in Gal. 1:4, of the act of God in

“delivering” believers “out of this present evil world,” the middle voice indicating His

pleasure in the issue of their “deliverance.” It signifies to “deliver” by rescuing from

danger, in Acts 12:11; 23:27; 26:17; from bondage, Acts 7:10, 34. For its other meaning,

“to pluck out of,” Matt. 5:29; 18:9, see

PLUCK

.¶

9.

(

$ !

, 2673): see

ABOLISH

.

10.

$

(

:"

, 4506), “to rescue from, to preserve from,” and so, “to deliver,”

the word by which it is regularly translated, is largely synonymous with

, “to save,”

though the idea of “rescue from” is predominant in

$

(see Matt. 27:43), that of

“preservation from,” in

. In Rom. 11:26 the present participle is used with the article,

as a noun, “the Deliverer.” This is the construction in 1 Thess. 1:10, where Christ is

similarly spoken of Here the

KJV

wrongly has “which delivered” (the tense is not past);

RV

, “which delivereth”; the translation might well be (as in Rom. 11:26), “our Deliverer,”

that is, from the retributive calamities with which God will visit men at the end of the

present age. From that wrath believers are to be “delivered.” The verb is used with

,

“away from,” in Matt. 6:13; Luke 11:4 (in some mss.); so also in 11:4; Rom. 15:31; 2

Thess. 3:2; 2 Tim. 4:18; and with , “from, out of,” in Luke 1:74; Rom. 7:24; 2 Cor.

1:10; Col. 1:13, from bondage; in 2 Pet. 2:9, from temptation, in 2 Tim. 3:11, from

persecution; but is used of ills impending, in 2 Cor. 1:10; in 2 Tim. 4:17, indicates

that the danger was more imminent than in v. 18, where

is used. Accordingly the

meaning “out of the midst of” cannot be pressed in 1 Thess. 1:10.¶

11.

(

$&

, 5483), “to gratify, to do what is pleasing to anyone,” is

translated “deliver” in the

KJV

of Acts 25:11, 16;

RV

, “give up” (marg., “grant by favor,”

i.e., to give over to the Jews so as to gratify their wishes). See

FORGIVE

,

GIVE

,

GRANT

.

Note:

For

and

, “to bear, to be delivered” (said of women at childbirth),

see

BEGET

.

B. Nouns.

1.

$

(

" $

, 629) denotes “redemption” ( , “from,”

$

, “a

price of release”). In Heb. 11:35 it is translated “deliverance”; usually the release is

effected by the payment of a ransom, or the required price, the

$

(ransom). See

REDEMPTION

.

2.

(

/

, 859) denotes “a release, from bondage, imprisonment, etc.” (the

corresponding verb is

, “to send away, let go”); in Luke 4:18 it is used of

“liberation” from captivity (

KJV

, “deliverance,”

RV

, “release”). See

FORGIVENESS

,

REMISSION

.

3.

$

(

$ )

, 3086), “a redeemer, one who releases” (see No. 1), is

translated “deliverer” in Acts 7:35 (

RV

marg., “redeemer”).¶

Note: