CHAPTER 7 Defining Evangelizing - Evangelism Unlimited

452 Evangelizology
Greek
eiv avpistou/men
Latin
Vulgate
(Migne,
1880)
si non
credimus
English translation
and its implication
evkei/noj
pisto.j
me,nei
ille fidelis
permanet
b) As used in 2 Tim 2:13…
Approaches to Translating 2 Timothy 2:13
Wycliffe
(1388)
Tyndale
(1534);
Coverdale;
Geneva;
KJV
if we Yf we
bileuen not beleve not
Douais-
Rheims
(1899)
“Believe not”: point-in-time
implication, implying a lack of faith
in a critical circumstance
he dwellith
feithful
yet abideth
he faithfull
Bishops’
(1568);
Darby
If we If we be
believe not vnfaythful
he
continueth
faithful
NAB
(1970,
etc.); NLT;
NET
If we are
unfaithful
“Unfaithful”: implies a
general quality of
lacking faith in a linear
sense
he abideth
faithfull
he remains
faithful
ERV
(1885);
ASV
if we are
faithless
RSV
(1952);
NAS;
NKJ; NIV;
HCSB;
ESV
if we are
faithless
NJB
(1985)
If we are
faithless
“Faithless”: seems to imply never
having faith, completely devoid of
faith
he abideth
faithful
he remains
faithful
he is
faithful still
Bible in
Basic
English
(1949)
If we are
without
faith
Much like
faithless
From Syriac Peshitta:
Etheridge (1849): “And if we believe him not, He in his faithfulness abideth”
Murdock (1851), “And if we shall have not believed in him, he abideth in his fidelity”
Perhaps the best implication of 2 Tim 2:13 is this “if we lack faith, he remains faithful”
1 John 1:9, “He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins…”
Young’s
(1862,
etc.)
if we are
not
stedfast
To lack
faith in a
particular
circumstance?
he
still he
remaineth
keeps faith
stedfast
4) zhlo,w: being moved to jealousy, Acts 17:5 (BYZ reads quite differently here)
5) pi,mplhmi + zh/loj: filled with jealousy, Acts 5:17; 13:45
6) avntita,ssomai: resist, oppose, Acts 18:6
7) blasfhme,w: blaspheme, Acts 18:6
e. Results of false prophecying:
1) diastre,fw: turn away [from the faith], Acts 13:8; cf. Luke 23:2; Acts 13:10
Compare with Ezek 13:18-23, which speaks of the false prophetesses, using the Hebrew
tsuwd (däAc), meaning “to hunt” (5 times in this passage); and the Greek, diastre,fw,
meaning to pervert, distort, mislead, lead astray, cf. Ezek 13:18-23
2) ἀνατρέπω: overturn or subvert [whole households], Tit 1:11
f. Metaphorical terms for the result of evangelism:
1) zwgre,w – “from now on you will be catching men [taking men alive],” Luke 5:10
a) Only other NT use is of the Devil catching men in 2 Tim 2:26, “and they may come to
their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive [taken
alive] by him to do his will”
b) Compare with Joshua 2:13, “and spare [capture alive] my father and my mother and my
brothers and my sisters, with all who belong to them”
c) Add to this, Joshua 2:13, “and deliver our lives from death” [kai. evxelei/sqe (from
evxaire,w) th.n yuch,n mou evk qana,tou]
2) a`rpa,zw [to take by force; take away, carry off; catch up (into heaven)] - “snatching them out
of the fire,” Jude 23