There are many biblical examples of the word being used to delinate a sub group ..like some of each kind.
The example I uses is that I have 7 adult children. Only 3 live in my area. So when I say to my mother that "all " the kids are coming tomorrow, she understands I do not really mean ALL I meant the local all a subset of the greater all.
PAS
1) individually
a) each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything
2) collectively
a) some of all types
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... "the whole world has gone after him" Did all the world go after Christ? "then went all Judea, and were baptized of him in Jordan." Was all Judea, or all Jerusalem, baptized in Jordan? "Ye are of God, little children", and the whole world lieth in the wicked one". Does the whole world there mean everybody? The words "world" and "all" are used in some seven or eight senses in Scripture, and it is very rarely the "all" means all persons, taken individually. The words are generally used to signify that Christ has redeemed some of all sorts -- some Jews, some Gentiles, some rich, some poor, and has not restricted His redemption to either Jew or Gentile ...
C.H. Spurgeon from a sermon on Particular Redemption
Rnmomof7, there are 4664 verses of the Ancient Words containing all in them. In the following New Covenant words could you please identify which do not really mean all and which alls you would like to replace with the word some?
All does not mean all! "It depends what is, is" (W.J. Clinton)
"That He, in all things may occupy the foremost place...and He is therefore, justly called the Lord of all." (Col. 1:18 )
All does not mean all?
Acts 3:20,21
And He will send Jesus, your destined Christ, yet heaven must retain Him, until the restitution of all things (when all things are put right)"
Col. 1:19,20
"For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell. And having made peace through the blood of His cross by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself."
1 Cor. 15:28
"And when He all things shall be subdued unto Him then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him that God may be all in all."
1 Cor. 15:22
"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
1 Cor. 15:25,27
"For He must reign until He hath put all enemies under His feet...For He hath put all things under His feet. But when He saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is excepted, which did put all things under Him."
Rev. 5:13
"And every/ pas creature which is in heaven and on earth, and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb."
Romans 11:32
"For God has consigned all men to disobedience that He might have mercy upon all."
Romans 11:36
"For of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen."
Eph. 4:10
"Yea, He who came down is the same who is gone up, far above all heavens, that He might fill all things with His Presence."
John 5:28
"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice. Those who have done good will to live and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment."
1 Timothy 2:4
"For this is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour; who will have all men to be saved and come to an increasing knowledge of the truth."
1 Timothy 2:6
"For there is one intermediary (One who brings God and men together) who gave Himself a ransom in behalf of all to be testified in due time."
2 Cor. 5:15
"For the love of God overmasters us because we judge that if one died for all, then were all dead; And that His purpose in dying for all was that men, while still in life, should cease to live for themselves, and should live for Him who for their sake died and was raised to life."
Col. 1:16
"For by Him were all things created, of things in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen (angels or archangels and all the powers of Heaven)....all things were created by Him, and for Him (all were made by Christ for His own use and glory.)
John 3:35
"The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand (has given Him control over everything). Whoever trusts on the Son possesses eternal life and he who does not obey the Son, God's displeasure hangs over him continually.
Heb. 1:2
"God...hath in these days spoken unto us in His Son who is the predestined Lord of the universe (whom he has appointed heir of all things).
"The truths that seem to us irreconcilable only because our finite minds cannot understand the Infinite, must never be allowed by our faulty apprehension of the Eternal counsels of God to hinder unquestioning faith in the ancient words of Divine utterings." FineLinen 47:3
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/j/p/jpaidall.htm
