Holding Forth The Word Of Life - 17 yea, and if i be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, i joy, and rejoice with you all. Hermeneia[1] lays out the reasoning nicely: Web 16 holding forth the word of life; Web 14 do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of god without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. And here may be styled the word of life, because he has all life in him; Web 16 holding forth the word of life; That i may rejoice in the day of christ, that i have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. —the phrase “the word of life” is remarkable. By which may be meant, either christ the essential word, in whom life was, and is, and who is called the quick or living word, ( john 1:1 john 1:4 ) ( hebrews 4:12 ) ; Here it signifies, of course, the gospel of christ.
That i may rejoice in the day of christ, that i have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Note the same connection in john 1:4, “in him was life, and the life was the light of men.”. Esv holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of christ i may be proud that i did not run in vain or labor in vain. Here it signifies, of course, the gospel of christ. 17 yea, and if i be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, i joy, and rejoice with you all. Hermeneia[1] lays out the reasoning nicely: —the phrase “the word of life” is remarkable. That i may rejoice in the day of christ, that i have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Web 16 holding forth the word of life; “holding out the word of life, so that i may have a boast in the day of christ.”42 the verb translated “holding out” is ἐπέχω. And here may be styled the word of life, because he has all life in him; Niv as you hold firmly to the word of life. Web holding forth the word of life. He has a divine life in him, as god, he is the living god; By which may be meant, either christ the essential word, in whom life was, and is, and who is called the quick or living word, ( john 1:1 john 1:4 ) ( hebrews 4:12 ) ; Web 16 holding forth the word of life; Web the “luminaries” hold forth their light to men, and that light is the “word of life.”. Web 14 do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of god without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life.