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Castaway

From: A Dictionary of Biblical Words and Phrases

By: Alfred Taylor Schofield

(1 Cor. 9:27²⁷But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. (1 Corinthians 9:27))

Translated also “reprobate” (2 Cor. 13:5-7⁵Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? ⁶But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. ⁷Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. (2 Corinthians 13:5‑7)), &c., and “rejected” (Heb. 6:8⁸But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. (Hebrews 6:8)). It means one finally rejected by God. Paul’s use of it is not as having any such fear himself, but as a warning to others (especially at Corinth) to whom eloquence was all, and Christian morality very little. Paul frequently speaks in this way, as he explains in 1 Cor. 4:6⁶And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. (1 Corinthians 4:6).

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A Dictionary of Biblical Words and Phrases

• Baptism of Fire

• Bride (the)

• Bread of Life

• Babylon or Babel

• Book of Life

• Backslider, -ing

• Bondage, Under

• Breast, The Wave

• Basket of First-Fruits

• Birth, The New

• Build -ing, -er

• Bread, Unleavened

• Circumcision

• Corn of the Land (Old)

• Coming, The Second

• Calling, Heavenly

• Camp, Outside the

• Castaway