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(
+
, 1545), “a way out” ( , “out,”
, “to go”), denotes (a) “an
escape,” 1 Cor. 10:13, used with the definite article and translated “the way of escape,” as
afforded by God in case of temptation; (b) “an issue or result,” Heb. 13:7. See
END
,
ISSUE
.¶ Cf.
, “to go out,” Heb. 11:15 (some mss. have
@
).¶
ESCHEW
(
#
&
, 1578), “to turn aside” ( , “from,”
, “to turn, bend”), is used
metaphorically (a) of leaving the right path, Rom. 3:12,
RV
, “turned aside,” for
KJV
,
“gone out of the way”; (b) of turning away from divisionmakers, and errorists, 16:17,
RV
,
“turn away from”; (c) of turning away from evil, 1 Pet. 3:11,
RV
, “turn away from,”
KJV
,
“eschew.” See
AVOID
,
TURN
.¶ In the Sept. the verb is frequently used of declining or
swerving from God’s ways, e.g., Job 23:11; Ps. 44:18; 119:51, 157.
ESPECIALLY
(
1
, 3122), “most, most of all, above all,” is the superlative of
,
“very much”; translated “especially” in Acts 26:3; Gal. 6:10; 1 Tim. 5:17; 2 Tim. 4:13;
Phil. 4:22,
RV
(for
KJV
, “chiefly”); “specially,” Acts 25:26; 1 Tim. 4:10; 5:8; Titus 1:10;
Philem. 16; in Acts 20:38, “most of all. See
CHIEFLY
,
MOST
.
ESPOUSED
1.
(
2$
, 718), “to fit, join” (from
, “a joint, joining”; the root
, signifying “to fit,” is in evidence in various languages; cf.
, “a joint,”
, “a number,” etc.), is used in the middle voice, of marrying or giving in
marriage; in 2 Cor. 11:2 it is rendered “espoused,” metaphorically of the relationship
established between Christ and the local church, through the apostle’s instrumentality.
The thought may be that of “fitting” or “joining” to one husband, the middle voice
expressing the apostle’s interest or desire in doing so.¶
2.
$
(
"
, 3423), “to woo and win, to espouse or promise in marriage,”
is used in the passive voice in Matt. 1:18; Luke 1:27; 2:5, all with reference to the Virgin
Mary,
RV
, “betrothed,” for
KJV
, “espoused,” in each case. See
BETROTH
.¶
ESTABLISH
1.
(
$&
, 4741), “to fix, make fast, to set” (from
@
, “a prop”), is used
of “establishing” or “stablishing” (i.e., the confirmation) of persons; the apostle Peter was
called by the Lord to “establish” his brethren, Luke 22:32, translated “strengthen”; Paul
desired to visit Rome that the saints might be “established,” Rom. 1:11; cf. Acts 8:23; so
with Timothy at Thessalonica, 1 Thess. 3:2; the “confirmation” of the saints is the work
of God, Rom. 16:25, “to stablish (you)”; 1 Thess. 3:13, “stablish (your hearts)”; 2 Thess.
2:17, “stablish them (in every good work and word)”; 1 Pet. 5:10, “stablish”; the means
used to eflect the “confirmation” is the ministry of the Word of God, 2 Pet. 1:12, “are
established (in the truth which is with you)”; James exhorts Christians to “stablish” their
hearts, Jas. 5:8; cf. Rev. 3:2,
RV
.
The character of this “confirmation” may be learned from its use in Luke 9:51,
“steadfastly set”; 16:26, “fixed,” and in the Sept. in Exod. 17:12, “stayed up” (also from
its strengthened form
, “to confirm,” in Acts 14:22; 15:32, 41; in some mss. “to
strengthen,” in 18:23; see
CONFIRM
.¶). Neither the laying on of hands nor the impartation