CHAPTER 7 Defining Evangelizing - Evangelism Unlimited

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83) krate,w (47 NT uses) – 1. take into one’s possession or custody: a. arrest, apprehend; b. take
hold of, grasp, seize; attain; 2. Hold, hold back, restrain; be prevented; hold fast, keep,
retain:
Heb 4:14, “Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son
of God, let us hold fast our confession”
[Get the idea of someone seizing the horns of the altar, grasping tightly to a verbal confession, in
the context of a very powerful Word (Heb 4:12-13), a powerful Savior (Heb 4:14), and a
compassionate Savior (Heb 4:15)]
[Not merely holding to the content of the confession of Christ, in a passive sense, but holding
forth a confession of Him before all creatures, knowing that there is no creature hidden “from
His sight” (Heb 4:13), as well as holding forth the need for verbal confession of Christ
(Matt 10:32; Luke 12:18)]
[Christ sympathizing with our weaknesses, in the next verse, seems to acknowledge the great
difficulty of regularly holding fast to this confession before men, cf. Mark 8:38]
84) ai;rw (102 NT uses) – “take up” (raise, lift, take up, pick up; take, carry away, remove):
Matt 16:24, “Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up [imperative] his cross, and follow Me.’”
Mark 8:34, “And He summoned the multitude with His disciples, and said to them, ‘If anyone wishes
to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up [imperative] his cross, and follow Me.’”
Luke 9:23, “And He was saying to them all, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself,
and take up [imperative] his cross daily, and follow Me.’”
85) u`yo,w (20 NT uses) – “raised up”:
John 3:14, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up.”
John 8:28, “Jesus therefore said, ‘When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He,
and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.’”
John 12:32, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all [men] to Myself.”
John 12:34, “The multitude therefore answered Him, ‘We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is
to remain forever; and how can You say, “The Son of Man must be lifted up”? Who is this Son
of Man?’”
au. Verbs relating to capturing people:
86) zwgre,w (2 NT uses) – “capturing men alive,” Luke 5:10, “Do not fear, from now on you
will be catching men [or: taking men alive]”
Translations of zwgrw/n in Luke 5:10
Greek Byzantine Latin Vulgate Wycliffe 2 nd ed Geneva NAS
Mh. fobou/\ avpo.
tou/ nu/n
avnqrw,pouj e;sh|
zwgrw/n
noli timere ex hoc
iam homines eris
capiens
Nyle thou drede;
now fro this tyme
thou schalt take
men.
Feare not: from
henceforthe thou
shalt catch men
Do not fear, from
now on you will be
catching men
Louis Segond (my
trans)
Louis Segond
Do not fear, from Ne crains point;
now on you will be désormais tu seras
a fisher of men pêcheur d'hommes
a) The verb zwgre,w is used 8 times in the OT LXX:
Num 31:15, “Have you spared all the women? [ti, evzwgrh,sate pa/n qh/lu]”
Num 31:18, “But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves”
Deut 20:16, “you shall not leave alive anything that breathes [ouv zwgrh,sete avpV auvtw/n pa/n
evmpne,on]”
Jos 2:13, “and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, with all who
belong to them, and deliver our lives from death”
Jos 6:25, “However, Rahab the harlot and her father's household and all she had, Joshua spared”
Jos 9:20, “This we will do to them, even let them live, lest wrath be upon us for the oath which
we swore to them”
2 Sam 8:2, “And he defeated Moab, and measured them with the line, making them lie down on
the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death and one full line to keep alive. And
the Moabites became servants to David, bringing tribute”
2 Chron 25:12, “The sons of Judah also captured 10,000 alive and brought them to the top of the
cliff, and threw them down from the top of the cliff so that they were all dashed to pieces”