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I used 3 of the major greek texts and will focus on 1 greek word in each verse, if needed.
Feel free to comment on it if you like.
God bless
Romans 1:1
Paul, bond-slave of Jesus Christ, a-called apostle, seperated/set-apart/afwris-menoV <873> (5772) into Good-Message of God.
Romans 1:1
pauloV douloV ihsou cristou klhtoV apostoloV afwris-menoV eiV euaggelion qeou
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G873&t=KJV
[used 10 times in NT]
#873 is used only 3 times in the Gospels, 2 times in Matt [concerning the severing of the righteous and wicked, and severing of the sheep and goats] and 1 time in Luke.
It appears to be formed by the root word #3724, and suffix #3306 [which appears to be a root word itself? I parsed it, but not sure if that is correct to do or not].
873. aphorizo from 575 and 3724; to set off by boundary, i.e. (figuratively) limit, exclude, appoint, etc.:--divide, separate, sever.
575. apo a primary particle; "off," i.e. away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literal or figurative):--(
3724. horizo from 3725; to mark out or bound ("horizon"), i.e. (figuratively) to appoint, decree, specify:--declare, determine, limit, ordain.
3306. meno a primary verb; to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy):-
http://biblehub.com/romans/1-1.htm
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Separated (or, set apart) unto the gospel of God; i.e. to the preaching of the gospel, not the reception of it only, as is evident from the context. The word ἀφωρίσμενος here, as well as the previous κλητὸς, is best taken, in pursuance of the line of thought, as referring to the Divine counsels, not to the agency of the Church.
It is true that the word is elsewhere used with the latter reference, as in Acts 13:2, Ἀφορίσατε δὴ μοι τόν τε Βαρνάβαν καὶ τὸν, Σαῦλον εἰς τὸ ἔργον ο} ππροσκέκλημαι αὐτούς, where the ἀφορισμὸς spoken of was subsequent to the Divine κλῆσις, and effected by human laying on of hands.
But we have also St. Paul's own words (Galatians 1:15), Ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ἀφόρρισας με ἐκ κοιλίας μητρός μου καὶ καλίσας διὰ τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ, where the ἀφορισμὸς is that of God's eternal purpose, and previous to the κλῆσις (cf. Acts 9:15 and Acts 26:16, 17).
This may regard either God's eternal purpose concerning him, his preordination of him from eternity to be a preacher of the Gospel, to which he was separated from his mother's womb, Galatians 1:15; or the separation of him to that work made by the order of the Spirit of God, Acts 13:2.
The phrase used is either in allusion to the priests and Levites, who were separated from their brethren the children of Israel, to their sacred employments; or rather to the apostle's having been "a Pharisee", which signifies "one separated", as he was now; only with this difference, before he was separated to the law, but now "to the Gospel", to preach and defend it, which he did with all faithfulness and integrity; the excellency of which Gospel is signified by its being called "the Gospel of God": he is the author of it; his grace is the subject of it; and he it is who commits it to men, qualifies them for the preaching of it, and succeeds them in it.
Feel free to comment on it if you like.
God bless
Romans 1:1
Paul, bond-slave of Jesus Christ, a-called apostle, seperated/set-apart/afwris-menoV <873> (5772) into Good-Message of God.
Romans 1:1
pauloV douloV ihsou cristou klhtoV apostoloV afwris-menoV eiV euaggelion qeou
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G873&t=KJV
[used 10 times in NT]
#873 is used only 3 times in the Gospels, 2 times in Matt [concerning the severing of the righteous and wicked, and severing of the sheep and goats] and 1 time in Luke.
It appears to be formed by the root word #3724, and suffix #3306 [which appears to be a root word itself? I parsed it, but not sure if that is correct to do or not].
873. aphorizo from 575 and 3724; to set off by boundary, i.e. (figuratively) limit, exclude, appoint, etc.:--divide, separate, sever.
575. apo a primary particle; "off," i.e. away (from something near), in various senses (of place, time, or relation; literal or figurative):--(
3724. horizo from 3725; to mark out or bound ("horizon"), i.e. (figuratively) to appoint, decree, specify:--declare, determine, limit, ordain.
3306. meno a primary verb; to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy):-
http://biblehub.com/romans/1-1.htm
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Separated (or, set apart) unto the gospel of God; i.e. to the preaching of the gospel, not the reception of it only, as is evident from the context. The word ἀφωρίσμενος here, as well as the previous κλητὸς, is best taken, in pursuance of the line of thought, as referring to the Divine counsels, not to the agency of the Church.
It is true that the word is elsewhere used with the latter reference, as in Acts 13:2, Ἀφορίσατε δὴ μοι τόν τε Βαρνάβαν καὶ τὸν, Σαῦλον εἰς τὸ ἔργον ο} ππροσκέκλημαι αὐτούς, where the ἀφορισμὸς spoken of was subsequent to the Divine κλῆσις, and effected by human laying on of hands.
But we have also St. Paul's own words (Galatians 1:15), Ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ἀφόρρισας με ἐκ κοιλίας μητρός μου καὶ καλίσας διὰ τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ, where the ἀφορισμὸς is that of God's eternal purpose, and previous to the κλῆσις (cf. Acts 9:15 and Acts 26:16, 17).
This may regard either God's eternal purpose concerning him, his preordination of him from eternity to be a preacher of the Gospel, to which he was separated from his mother's womb, Galatians 1:15; or the separation of him to that work made by the order of the Spirit of God, Acts 13:2.
The phrase used is either in allusion to the priests and Levites, who were separated from their brethren the children of Israel, to their sacred employments; or rather to the apostle's having been "a Pharisee", which signifies "one separated", as he was now; only with this difference, before he was separated to the law, but now "to the Gospel", to preach and defend it, which he did with all faithfulness and integrity; the excellency of which Gospel is signified by its being called "the Gospel of God": he is the author of it; his grace is the subject of it; and he it is who commits it to men, qualifies them for the preaching of it, and succeeds them in it.
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