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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(devoted). The devoted thing, if inanimate, fell to the priests (
Num. 18:18
18
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. (Numbers 18:18)
); if animate, it was to be slain (
Lev. 27:28-29
28
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.
29
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death. (Leviticus 27:28‑29)
). In N. T. a curse (
Rom. 9:3
3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: (Romans 9:3)
;
1 Cor. 12:3; 16:22
3
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. (1 Corinthians 12:3)
22
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. (1 Corinthians 16:22)
). In the latter instance
Maranatha
is added, the meaning being “Let him be
accursed
.”
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This is a
Greek
word untranslated in
1 Corinthians 16:22
22
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. (1 Corinthians 16:22)
: it occurs also in
Romans 9:3
3
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: (Romans 9:3)
;
1 Corinthians 12:3
3
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. (1 Corinthians 12:3)
;
Galatians 1:8-9
8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9
As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8‑9)
and is uniformly translated “
accursed
.” The solemn
passage
in 1 Corinthians 16 is “If any
man
love not
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ, let him be accursed,
Maranatha
(the Lord cometh).” In Galatians it is said that if any person or even an angel from
heaven
preached any other gospel than that which they had received, let him be accursed. Two solemn denunciations relating to the person of the Lord Jesus and
the gospel
of
God
.
The word
ἀνάθεμα was used for any votive
offering
in a
heathen
temple, which could not be redeemed; hence anything devoted. In the
New
Testament
it is devoted to God’s curse,
destruction
.
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
accursed
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“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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