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3.
(
!
, 795), “to miss the mark, fail” ( , negative,
, “a mark”),
is used only in the Pastoral Epistles, 1 Tim. 1:6, “having swerved”; 6:21 and 2 Tim. 2:18,
“have erred.” See
SWERVE
.¶
ERROR
1.
(
1
, 4106), akin to
(see
ERR
, No. 1), “a wandering, a forsaking of
the right path,” see Jas. 5:20, whether in doctrine, 2 Pet. 3:17; 1 John 4:6, or in morals,
Rom. 1:27; 2 Pet. 2:18; Jude 11, though, in Scripture, doctrine and morals are never
divided by any sharp line. See also Matt. 27:64, where it is equivalent to ‘fraud.’”†
“Errors” in doctrine are not infrequently the effect of relaxed morality, and vice versa.
In Eph. 4:14 the
RV
has “wiles of error,” for
KJV
, “they lie in wait to deceive”; in 1
Thess. 2:3,
RV
, “error,” for
KJV
, “deceit”; in 2 Thess. 2:11,
RV
, “a working of error,” for
KJV
, “strong delusion.” See
DECEIT
.¶ Cf.
, “a wandering,” Jude 13,¶ and the
adjective
, “leading astray, deceiving, a deceiver.”
2.
(
, 51), “a sin of ignorance” (cf.
, “ignorance,” and
, “to be ignorant”), is used in the plural in Heb. 9:7.¶
ESCAPE
A. Verbs.
1.
$
(
"
, 5343), “to flee” (Lat.,
7$
, “flight,” etc.; cf. Eng., “fugitive,
subterfuge”), is rendered “escape” in Matt. 23:33; Heb. 11:34. See
FLEE
.
2.
$
(
"
, 668), “to flee away from” ( , “from,” and No. 1), is
used in 2 Pet. 1:4; 2:18, 20.¶
3.
$
(
"
, 1309), lit., “to flee through,” is used of the “escaping” of
prisoners from a ship, Acts 27:42. For the word in v. 44, see No. 5.¶
4.
$
(
#
"
, 1628), “to flee out of a place” ( , “out of,” and No. 1), is
said of the “escape” of prisoners, Acts 16:27; of Sceva’s sons, “fleeing” from the
demoniac, 19:16; of Paul’s escape from Damascus, 2 Cor. 11:33; elsewhere with
reference to the judgments of God, Luke 21:36; Rom. 2:3; Heb. 2:3; 12:25; 1 Thess. 5:3.
See
FLEE
.¶
5.
(
0
, 1295), in the active voice, “to bring safely through a danger”
( , “through,” intensive,
, “to save”), to make completely whole, to heal, Luke 7:3;
to bring “safe,” Acts 23:24; “to save,” 27:43; in the passive voice, Matt. 14:36, “were
made whole”; 1 Pet. 3:20. It is also used in the passive voice, signifying “to escape,” said
of shipwrecked mariners, Acts 27:44; 28:1, 4. See
HEAL
,
SAFE
,
SAVE
.¶
: &
,@
, “to come or go out of a place,” is rendered, “He escaped,” in John
10:39,
KJV
, an unsuitable translation, both in meaning and in regard to the circumstances
of the Lord’s departure from His would-be captors. The
RV
“went forth” is both accurate
and appropriate to the dignity of the Lord’s actions.
B. Noun.
† From
Notes on Thesslonians,
by Hogg and Vine p. 53.