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Added to Rejoiceth in the Truth
On December 14, 2009, I added an "Other Ancient Sources" text:
Barnabas 2:2-3--Fear (PHObos) and patience (hypomoNE-), then, are helpers (boe-THOI) of our faith (PISteo-s); and long-suffering (makrothyMIa) and continence (enKRAteia) are things which fight on our side. 3 While these remain pure in what respects the Lord, Wisdom (soPHIa), Understanding (SYnesis), Science (episTE-me-), and Knowledge (GNO-sis) rejoice along with (syneuPHRAInontai) them.
Alt.: ... 3 while these things continue, those which respect the Lord rejoice in purity along with them -- Wisdom ...
Alt.: Now the assistants of our faith are fear and patience; our fellow-combatants, long-suffering and continence. 3 Whilst these remain pure in what relates to the Lord, wisdom, and understanding, and science, and knowledge, rejoice together with them.
Added to Believeth All Things
On November 18, 2009, I fattened the definitions of pisTUEo- and PEItho-:
Word: pisTEUo- (4100)

Definitions:

STRONG:  From PIStis (4102); to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; by implication to entrust (especially one's spiritual well being to Christ).

THAYER:  

  1. to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in
    1. of the thing believed
      1. to credit, have confidence
    2. in a moral or religious reference
      1. used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul
      2. to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith
  2. to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity
    1. to be intrusted with a thing

VINE:  

  1. "Believe": To believe, also to be persuaded of, and hence, to place confidence in, to trust, signifies, in this sense of the word, reliance upon, not mere credence. It is most frequent in the writings of the Apostle John, especially the Gospel. He does not use the noun. For the Lord's first use of the verb, see 1:50. Of the writers of the Gospels, Matthew uses the verb ten times, Mark ten, Luke nine, John ninety-nine.
  2. "Commit": To entrust, commit to, Lk. 16:11; 1 Tim 1:11, "committed to (my) trust."
  3. "Intrust": In the passive voice, to be intrusted with. Rom 3:2; 1 Cor. 9:17; Gal. 2:7; Tit. 1:3; 1 Thess. 2:4.
  4. "Trust".

ZODHIATES:  To believe, have faith in, trust. Particularly, to be firmly persuaded as to something, to believe, with the idea of hope and certain expectation.

  1. With an adjunct of the thing believed, followed by the acc. of the thing.
  2. In the passive.
  3. Followed by eis, unto, with the acc.
  4. By HOti, that.
  5. By peRI, about, concerning, and the gen.
Word: PEItho-, middle voice PEIthomai (3982)

Definitions:

STRONG:  A primary verb; to convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexively or passively to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty).

THAYER:  

  1. persuade
    1. to persuade, i.e. to induce one by words to believe
    2. to make friends of, to win one’s favour, gain one’s good will, or to seek to win one, strive to please one
    3. to tranquillise
    4. to persuade unto, i.e. move or induce one to persuasion to do something
  2. be persuaded
    1. to be persuaded, to suffer one’s self to be persuaded; to be induced to believe: to have faith: in a thing
      1. to believe
      2. to be persuaded of a thing concerning a person
    2. to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with
  3. to trust, have confidence, be confident

VINE:  

  1. "Believe". PEItho-, to persuade , in the middle (PEIthomai) and passive voices signifies to suffer oneself to be persuaded, e.g., Lk. 16:31; Heb 13:18; Acts 17:4; 27:11; 28:24.
  2. "Agree". PEItho-, to persuade, is rendered "agreed" in Acts 5:40, where the meaning is "they yielded to him."
  3. "Assure". PEItho-, to persuade, is rendered "assure" in 1 John 3:19, where the meaning is that of confidence toward God consequent upon loving in deed and in truth.
  4. "Obey". PEItho-, to persuade, to win over, in the passive and middle voices, to be persuaded, to listen to, to obey, is so used with this meaning, in the middle voice, e.g., in Acts 5:36,7; Rom. 2:8; Gal. 5:7; Heb. 13:17; Jas. 3:3. The obedience suggested is not by submission ot authority, but resulting from persuasion.
    PEItho- and pisTEUo-, to trust, are closely related etymologically; the difference in meaning is that the former implies the obedience that is produced by the latter, cp. Heb. 3:18,19, where the disobedience of the Israelites is said to be the evidence of their unbelief. Faith is of the heart, invisible to men; obedience is of the conduct and may be observed. When a man obeys God he gives the only possible evidence that in his heart he believes God. Of course it is persuasion of the truth that results in faith (we believe because we are persuaded that the thing is true, a thing does not become true because it is believed), but PEItho-, in NT suggests an actual and outward result of the inward persuasion and consequent faith.
  5. "Persuade": PEItho- in the active voice, signifies to apply persuasion, to prevail upon or win over, to persuade, bringing about a change of mind by the influence of reason or moral considerations.
  6. "Trust": PEItho-, intransitively, in the perfect and pluperfect active, to have confidence, trust.
  7. "Yield": PEItho-, to persuade, in the passive voice, to be persuaded, is translated "do (not) thou yield", Acts 23:21.

ZODHIATES:  PEIthomai, to let oneself be persuaded, to be persuaded, to trust. Derivative of PEItho-: To persuade, particularly to move or affect by kind words or motives.

  1. To be convinced, believe.
  2. Used in an absolute sense, but with the inf. implied.
  3. Followed by the dat. of thing.
  4. Perf. pass. PEpeismai with pres. meaning, I am persuaded, convinced.
  5. To assent to, obey, follow, followed by the dat. of person or thing.
Added to Thinketh No Evil
On October 26, 2009, I fattened the definition of the root of loGIzetai ("thinketh"):
Word: loGIzomai (3049)

Definitions:

STRONG:  Middle voice from LOgos (3056); to take an inventory, that is, estimate (literally or figuratively).

THAYER:  

  1. To reckon, count, compute, calculate, count over.
    1. To take into account, to make an account of.
      1. Metaphorically to pass to one’s account, to impute.
      2. A thing is reckoned as or to be something, i.e. as availing for or equivalent to something, as having the like force and weight.
    2. To number among, reckon with.
    3. to reckon or account
  2. To reckon inward, count up or weigh the reasons, to deliberate.
  3. By reckoning up all the reasons, to gather or infer.
    1. To consider, take into account, weigh, meditate on.
    2. To suppose, deem, judge.
    3. To determine, purpose, decide.

VINE:  To reckon.

  1. To think. (Rom. 2:3)
  2. In 1 Cor. 13:5, "taketh (not) account of" (RV), i.e., love does not reckon up or calculatingly consider the evil done to it (something more than refraining from imputing motives).
  3. In Phil. 4:8, "think on (these things)", it signifies "make those things the subjects of your thoughtful consideration", or "carefully reflect on them". To think upon a matter by way of taking account of its character.
  4. To deliberate, and so to suppose, account.
  5. In 2 Cor. 3:5 the Apostle uses it in repudiation of the idea that he and fellow-servants of God are so self-sufficient as to "account anything" as from themselves, i.e., as to attribute anything to themselves.
  6. To put down to a person's account. In 2 Tim. 4:16 it is used of laying to a person's "account" as a charge against him.

ZODHIATES:  To reckon, impute, number.
Actually, the verb means to put together with one's mind, to count, to occupy oneself with reckonings or calculations.

    In the New Testament,
  1. The present used in a passive sense.
  2. Also means to reckon, count.
  3. To reason.
  4. To think.
  5. To count something to somebody means to reckon something to a person, to put to his account, either in his favor or for what he must be answerable.
  6. To reckon, to value or esteem.
  7. To account, to conclude or infer, to believe.

References:

  1. Rom 4:4,5,24; 9:8
  2. (1 Cor 13:5)
  3. Mk. 11:31
  4. Rom. 2:3; 8:18; 1 Cor. 13:11; 2 Cor. 3:5; 10:7,11; Phil. 4:8; 1 Pet 5:12
  5. Rom. 4:3,4,6,8,9,11,22; 2 Cor. 5:19; Gal. 3:6; 2 Tim. 4:16; James 2:23.
  6. Rom. 8:36; 1 Cor. 4:1; 2 Cor. 10:2; 12:6; Rom. 14:14; 2 Cor. 11:5; Phil. 3:13; Heb. 11:19; Rom. 6:11.
  7. Rom 3:28.
Added to All Rooms
On October 23, 2009, I added three new versions of each of the 16 phrases of our main text to every room in the Lab. They are the Bishops' Bible, the Spanish Sagradas Escrituras, and the Nueva Biblia de los Hispanos.
Added to Six Rooms
On October 16, 2009, I added internal links to Beareth All Things, Vaunteth Not Itself, and And Is Kind. On October 18, I added internal links to Doth Not Behave Itself Unseemly. On October 21, I added internal links to Is Not Puffed Up and Endureth All Things. Now you don't have to scroll so much.
Added to Doth Not Behave Itself Unseemly
On October 7, 2009, I added definitions to the main word and added two more root words:
Word: asche-moNEo- (807)

Definitions:

STRONG'S:  To be (that is, act) unbecoming.

THAYER:  To act unbecomingly.

ZODHIATES:

  1. To behave in an ugly, indecent, unseemly, or unbecoming manner.
  2. To be disgraced, suffer reproach.
Love in its speech and action seeks to contain no evil, but seeks to change the evildoer.

References:

  1. --
  2. 1 Cor. 7:36; Sept.: Deut. 25:3.

 

Word: aSCHE-mo-n (809)

Definitions:

STRONG'S:  Properly shapeless, that is, (figuratively) inelegant.

THAYER:  

  1. Deformed.
  2. Indecent, unseemly.

 

Word: SCHE-ma (4976)

Definitions:

STRONG'S:  A figure (as a mode or circumstance), that is, (by implication) external condition.

THAYER:  The habitus, as comprising everything in a person which strikes the senses, the figure, bearing, discourse, actions, manner of life, etc.

Added to Vaunteth Not Itself
On September 30, 2009, I added definitions to the main word:
Word: perpeREUomai (4068)

Origin: Middle deponent from PERperos, braggart.

Definitions:

STRONG'S:  To boast.

THAYER:  

  1. To boast one's self.
  2. A self display, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling one's self excessively.
VINE'S:  To boast or vaunt oneself.

ZODHIATES:  To brag or boast.

Added to Seeketh Not Her Own
On September 26, 2009, I added definitions to one Greek synonym (eriTHEIa) and added another synonym (IDios):
Word: eriTHEIa (2052)

Definitions:

STRONG'S:  Properly intrigue, that is, (by implication) faction.

THAYER:  Electioneering or intriguing for office.

  1. Apparently, in the NT a courting distinction, a desire to put one’s self forward, a partisan and fractious spirit which does not disdain low arts.
  2. Partisanship, fractiousness.

VINE'S:  Denotes ambition, self-seeking, rivalry, self-will being an underlying idea in the word; hence it deontes party-making. It is derived, not from ERis, strife, but from erithos, a hireling. Faction is the fruit of jealousy.

ZODHIATES:  Contention, strife, rivalry.

  1. It represents a motive of self-interest, mercenary interest.
  2. It also meant canvassing for public office, scheming.

References:

  1. Phil. 1:16; 2:3;
  2. Rom. 2:8; 2 Cor. 12:20; Gal. 5:20; James 3:14,16.
Word: IDios (2398)

Definitions:

STRONG'S:  Of uncertain affinity; pertaining to self, that is, one's own; by implication private or separate.

THAYER:  Pertaining to one’s self, one’s own, belonging to one’s self.

VINE'S:  One's own, his own, private.

ZODHIATES:  Properly one's own. As pertaining to a private person and not to the public, private, particular, individual, as opposed to demOSios (1209), public, open, and koiNOS (2839), common.

  1. Used adverbially:
    1. iDIa, individually, severally, to each one.
    2. kat' iDIan with the preposition kaTA (2596), according to, meaning privately, by oneself, apart from others, e.g., one individual alone.
  2. As belonging to oneself and not to another, one's own, peculiar.
    1. Denoting ownership, that of which one is himself the owner, possessor, producer, as my own, your own, his own.
    2. In the sense of peculiar, particular, as distinguishing one person from others.
    3. As denoting that which in its nature or by appointment pertains in any way to a person or things.
    4. Sometimes iDIos is used instead of a possessive pronoun without any emphasis. Equivalent to heauTOU (1438), of his own.
Added to And is Kind
On September 22, 2009, I added a reference:

Ps. 86:5--For You, O Lord, are good (chre-STOS) and ready to forgive (epieiKE-S), and rich in mercy (polyELeos) to all who call on You. (LITV)
Alt.:--... and plenteous in mercy to all ... (KJV)
Alt.:--... and abundant in mercy to ... (NKJV)
Alt.:--For thou Lorde art good and gracious ... (Bishops)
Alt.:--... good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love ... (JPS '85)
Alt.:--For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy ... (DRB)
Alt.:--Lord, you are kind and forgiving and have great love for those who call to you. (NCV)

Added to But Rejoiceth in the Truth
On March 6, 2009, I added English definitions:

Word: truth

Etymology: ME trewthe, treuthe, fr. OE treowth, triewth; akin to OHG getriuwida fidelity, ON tryggth faith, trustiness; derivative fr. the root of E true.

Definitions:

    1. archaic : the quality or state of being faithful
    2. Sincerity in character, action, and speech : genuineness in expressing feeling or belief : truthfulness, honesty
    1. something that is true or held to be true: as
      1. the real state of affairs : something that is the case : fact
      2. the body of things, events, and facts that make up the universe : actual existence : actuality
      3. often cap : a fundamental or spiritual reality conceived of as being partly or wholly transcendent of perceived actuality and experience
      4. the world of a particular person or in a particular manner
      1. a true relation or account
      2. a judgment, proposition, statement, or idea that accords with fact or reality, is logically or intuitively necessary, or follows by sound reasoning from established or necessary truths; specif : a proposition or statement taken as an axiom, postulate, or principle in a field of study or inquiry
      3. truism, platitude
      4. a notion having wide and uncritical acceptance among a group or in a field and liable to be proved false
    2. the body of true statements and propositions; also : the body of statements and propositions accepted, studied, or proved in a field
    1. relationship, conformity, or agreement with fact or reality or among true facts or propositions : the property in a conception, judgment, statement, proposition, belief, or opinion of being in accord with what is in fact or in necessity
    2. chiefly Brit : true (as in "her propeller shaft was a trifle out of ~ --C.S. Forester)
      1. fidelity to an original or a possible original
      2. the conformity of a work of art to the essential significance of the subject, to the artist's conception or intent, or to some standard : the coherence of form and content in an apparently necessary whole
    1. often cap : abstract truth personified as a goddess
    2. cap, Christian Science : God.

Source: Webster's Third New International (1961)

I also added a couple of commentaries:

Barnes:  Rejoiceth in the truth - The word “truth” here stands opposed to “iniquity,” and means virtue, piety, goodness. It does not rejoice in the “vices,” but in the “virtues” of others. It is pleased, it rejoices when they “do well.” It is pleased when those who differ from us conduct themselves in any manner in such a way as to please God, and to advance their own reputation and happiness. They who are under the influence of that love rejoice that good is done, and the truth defended and advanced, whoever may be the instrument; rejoice that others are successful in their plans of doing good, though they do not act with us; rejoice that other people have a reputation well earned for virtue and purity of life, though they may differ from us in opinion, and may be connected with a different denomination. They do not rejoice when other denominations of Christians fall into error; or when their plans are blasted; or when they are calumniated, and oppressed, and reviled.

By whomsoever good is done, or wheresoever, it is to them a matter of rejoicing; and by whomsoever evil is done, or wheresoever, it is to them a matter of grief; see –Phi_1:14-18. The “reason” of this is, that all sin, error, and vice will ultimately ruin the happiness of anyone; and as love desires their happiness, it desires that they should walk in the ways of virtue, and is grieved when they do not. What a change would the prevalence of this feeling produce in the conduct and happiness of mankind! How much ill-natured joy would it repress at the faults of others? How much would it do to repress the pains which a man often takes to circulate reports disadvantageous to his adversary; to find out and establish some flaw in his character; to prove that he has said or done something disgraceful and evil! And how much would it do even among Christians, in restraining them from rejoicing at the errors, mistakes, and improprieties of the friends of revivals of religion, and in leading them to mourn over their errors in secret, instead of taking a malicious pleasure in promulgating them to the world! This would be a very different world if there were none to rejoice in iniquity; and the church would be a different church if there were none in its bosom but those who rejoiced in the truth, and in the efforts of humble and self-denying piety.

Robertson's Word Pictures:  But rejoiceth with the truth (sunchairei de te¯i ale¯theia¯i). Associative instrumental case after sun? in composition. Truth personified as opposed to unrighteousness (2Th_2:12; Rom_2:8). Love is on the side of the angels. Paul returns here to the positive side of the picture (1Co_13:4) after the remarkable negatives.

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