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(
&
, 1139) signifies “to be possessed of a demon, to act
under the control of a demon.” Those who were thus afflicted expressed the mind and
consciousness of the “demon” or “demons” indwelling them, e.g., Luke 8:28. The verb is
found chiefly in Matt. and Mark; Matt. 4:24; 8:16, 28, 33; 9:32; 12:22; 15:22; Mark 1:32;
5:15-16, 18; elsewhere in Luke 8:36 and John 10:21, “him that hath a devil (demon).”¶
C. Adjective.
(
0
, 1141) signifies “proceeding from, or resembling, a
demon, demoniacal”; see marg. of Jas. 3:15,
RV
(text, “devilish”).¶
DEMONSTRATION
@
(
, 585), lit., “a pointing out” ( , “forth,”
$
, “to show”),
a “showing” or demonstrating by argument, is found in 1 Cor. 2:4, where the apostle
speaks of a proof, a “showing” forth or display, by the operation of the Spirit of God in
him, as affecting the hearts and lives of his hearers, in contrast to the attempted methods
of proof by rhetorical arts and philosophic arguments.¶
DEN
(
)
, 4693): see
CAVE
.
DENY
1.
(
$
!
, 720) signifies (a) “to say … not, to contradict,” e.g., Mark
14:70; John 1:20; 18:25, 27; 1 John 2:22; (b) “to deny” by way of disowning a person, as,
e.g., the Lord Jesus as master, e.g., Matt. 10:33; Luke 12:9; John 13:38 (in the best mss.);
2 Tim. 2:12; or, on the other hand, of Christ Himself, “denying” that a person is His
follower, Matt. 10:33; 2 Tim. 2:12; or to “deny” the Father and the Son, by apostatizing
and by disseminating pernicious teachings, to “deny” Jesus Christ as master and Lord by
immorality under a cloak of religion, 2 Pet. 2:1; Jude 4; (c) “to deny oneself,” either in a
good sense, by disregarding one’s own interests, Luke 9:23, or in a bad sense, to prove
false to oneself, to act quite unlike oneself, 2 Tim. 2:13; (d) to “abrogate, forsake, or
renounce a thing,” whether evil, Titus 2:12, or good, 1 Tim. 5:8; 2 Tim. 3:5; Rev. 2:13;
3:8; (e)“not to accept, to reject” something offered, Acts 3:14; 7:35, “refused”; Heb.
11:24 “refused.” See
REFUSE
.
2.
(
$
!
, 533), a strengthened form of No. 1, with
, “from,”
prefixed (Lat.,
), means (a) “to deny utterly,” to abjure, to affirm that one has no
connection with a person, as in Peter’s denial of Christ, Matt. 26:34-35, 75; Mark 14:30-
31, 72; Luke 22:34, 61 (some mss. have it in John 13:38). This stronger form is used in
the Lord’s statements foretelling Peter’s “denial,” and in Peter’s assurance of fidelity; the
simple verb (No. 1) is used in all the records of his actual denial. The strengthened form
is the verb used in the Lord’s warning as to being “denied” in the presence of the angels,
Luke 12:9; in the preceding clause, “he that denieth Me,” the simple verb
is
used; the rendering therefore should be “he that denieth Me in the presence of men, shall
be utterly denied in the presence of the angels of God”; (b) “to deny oneself” as a
follower of Christ, Matt. 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23.¶
3.
(
&
, 483) means “to speak against, contradict.” In Luke 20:27, the
RV
, “they which say that there is no resurrection,” follows the texts which have the