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same use in Matt. 6:2, 5, 16 (see Deissmann,
6
7
*
,
, pp. 110ff.).
See
ABSTAIN
,
HAVE
,
RECEIVE
.
For
ENQUIRE
see
INQUIRE
ENRICH
$
(
&
, 4148), “to make rich” (from
$
, “wealth, riches”), is used
metaphorically, of spiritual “riches,” in 1 Cor. 1:5, “ye were enriched”; 2 Cor. 6:10,
“making rich”; 2 Cor. 9:11, “being enriched.” See
RICH
.
ENROLL, ENROLLMENT
A. Verb.
(
$1
, 583) primarily signifies “to write out, to copy”; then, “to
enroll, to inscribe,” as in a register. It is used of a census, Luke 2:1,
RV
, “be enrolled,” for
KJV
, “be taxed”; in the middle voice, vv. 3, 5, to enroll oneself,
KJV
, “be taxed.”
Confirmation that this census (not taxation) was taken in the dominions of the Roman
Empire is given by the historians Tacitus and Suetonius. Augustus himself drew up a sort
of Roman Doomsday Book, a rationarium, afterwards epitomized into a breviarium, to
include the allied kingdoms, appointing twenty commissioners to draw up the lists. In
Heb. 12:23 the members of the church of the firstborn are said to be “enrolled,”
RV
.¶
Note:
For
RV
, 1 Tim. 5:9,
, see
TAKE
,
Note
(18); for
RV
, 2 Tim. 2:4,
, see
SOLDIER
, B,
Note
(2).
B. Noun.
(
$ )
, 582) primarily denotes “a written copy,” or, as a law term, “a
deposition”; then, “a register, census, enrollment,” Luke 2:2; Acts 5:37,
RV
, for
KJV
,
“taxing.” Luke’s accuracy has been vindicated, as against the supposed inconsistency that
as Quirinius was governor of Syria in A.D. 6, ten years after the birth of Christ, the
census, as “the first” (
RV
), could not have taken place. At the time mentioned by Luke,
Cilicia, of which Quirinius was governor, was separated from Cyprus and joined to Syria.
His later direct governorship of Syria itself accounts for the specific inclusion of, and
reference to, his earlier connection with that province. Justin Martyr, a native of
Palestine, writing in the middle of the 2nd century, asserts thrice that Quirinius was
present in Syria at the time mentioned by Luke (see Apol., 1:34, 46; Trypho 78).
Noticeable, too, are the care and accuracy taken by Luke in his historical details, 1:3,
RV
.
As to charges made against Luke’s accuracy, Moulton and Milligan say as follows:—
“The deduction so long made … about the census apparently survives the demonstration
that the blunder lay only in our lack of information: the microbe is not yet completely
expelled. Possibly the salutary process may be completed by our latest inscriptional
evidence that Quirinius was a legate in Syria for census purposes in 8-6 B.C.Ӧ
ENSAMPLE
1.
$
(
"
, 5179) primarily denoted “a blow” (from a root
$
, seen also in
$
, “to strike”), hence, (a) an impression, the mark of a “blow,” John 20:25; (b) the
“impress” of a seal, the stamp made by a die, a figure, image, Acts 7:43; (c) a “form” or
mold, Rom. 6:17 (see
RV
); (d) the sense or substance of a letter, Acts 23:25; (e) “an
ensample,” pattern, Acts 7:44; Heb. 8:5, “pattern”; in an ethical sense, 1 Cor. 10:6; Phil.