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has “unruly,” as in Titus 1:6, 10; in Heb. 2:8, “not subject” (
RV
), “not put under” (
KJV
).
See
PUT
,
UNRULY
.¶
C. Verb.
(
!
, 544), akin to A, No. 1, and B, “to refuse to be persuaded, to refuse
belief, to be disobedient,” is translated “disobedient,” or by the verb “to be disobedient,”
in the
RV
of Acts 14:2 (
KJV
, “unbelieving”), and 19:9 (
KJV
, “believed not”); it is absent
from the most authentic mss. in Acts 17:5; in John 3:36 “obeyeth not,”
RV
(
KJV
,
“believeth not”); in Rom. 2:8 “obey not”; in 10:21, “disobedient”; in 11:30, 31, “were
disobedient” (
KJV
, “have not believed”); so in 15:31; Heb. 3:18; 11:31; in 1 Pet. 2:8,
“disobedient”; so in 3:20; in 3:1 and 4:17, “obey not.” In 2:7 the best mss. have
,
“to disbelieve.” See
OBEY
, B, No. 4,
UNBELIEVING
.¶
DISORDERLY
A. Adjective.
(
/
, 813) signifies “not keeping order” ( , negative,
, “to put in
order, arrange”); it was especially a military term, denoting “not keeping rank,
insubordinate”; it is used in 1 Thess. 5:14, describing certain church members who
manifested an insubordinate spirit, whether by excitability or officiousness or idleness.
See
UNRULY
.¶
B. Adverb.
(
1
, 814) signifies “disorderly, with slackness” (like soldiers not
keeping rank) 2 Thess. 3:6; in v. 11 it is said of those in the church who refused to work,
and became busybodies (cf. 1 Tim. 5:13).¶
C. Verb.
(
!
, 812) signifies “to be out of rank, out of one’s place, undisciplined,
to behave disorderly”: in the military sense, “to break rank”; negatively in 2 Thess. 3:7,
of the example set by the apostle and his fellow missionaries, in working for their bread
while they were at Thessalonica so as not to burden the saints. See
BEHAVE
.¶
DISPARAGEMENT
For this
RV
translation of
in 2 Cor. 11:21, see
DISHONOR
, A.
DISPENSATION
(
*
&
, 3622) primarily signifies “the management of a household or
of household affairs” (
, “a house,”
, “a law”); then the management or
administration of the property of others, and so “a stewardship,” Luke 16:2-4; elsewhere
only in the epistles of Paul, who applies it (a) to the responsibility entrusted to him of
preaching the gospel, 1 Cor. 9:17 (
RV
, “stewardship,”
KJV
, “dispensation”); (b) to the
stewardship committed to him “to fulfill the Word of God,” the fulfillment being the
unfolding of the completion of the divinely arranged and imparted cycle of truths which
are consummated in the truth relating to the church as the body of Christ, Col. 1:25 (
RV
and
KJV
, “dispensation”); so in Eph. 3:2, of the grace of God given him as a stewardship
(“dispensation”) in regard to the same “mystery”; (c) in Eph. 1:10 and 3:9, it is used of
the arrangement or administration by God, by which in “the fullness of the times” (or
seasons) God will sum up all things in the heavens and on earth in Christ. In Eph. 3:9