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“22. Envy. Zeal. Emulation. Jealousy” From
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Both ζῆλος and φθόνος are translated 'envy,' but they are not used indiscriminately. Ζῆλος is
sometimes
used in a good and sometimes in a bad sense, whereas φθόνος is perhaps always used in a bad sense in the
New
Testament
.
In
Gal. 5:20, 21
20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:20‑21)
, both words are among the "
works
of the
flesh
," as ‘emulations' or ‘jealousies' (ζῆ.) and ‘envyings ' (φθ.).
Ζῆλος
is used of the
Lord
in "The ‘zeal' of thine
house
hath eaten me up,"
John 2:17
17
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. (John 2:17)
: a quotation from
Psalm 69:9
9
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. (Psalm 69:9)
(68:10), where the LXX has the same word.
Paul
speaks to the Corinthian saints of the ‘zeal' ('fervent mind' A. V.) they had for him, and the ‘zeal' they manifested in clearing themselves from the evil amongst them.
2 Cor. 7:7, 11
7
And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more. (2 Corinthians 7:7)
11
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. (2 Corinthians 7:11)
. Afterward he says he was jealous (ζηλόω, the verb) over them with a godly
jealousy
(ζῆ.), chap. 11:2; but in chap. 12:20, he uses the same word for the ‘envyings' or ‘jealousies' he feared he might find among them.
Above it is said, ‘perhaps'
φθόνος
always has a bad sense in the N. T. because of
Jas. 4:5
5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? (James 4:5)
. This is a difficult
passage
, and has been variously translated. Apparently the A. V. and R. V. assume the ‘
spirit
' to be the human spirit, which naturally lusteth to envy; but others believe the spirit to be
the
Holy Spirit
, and if so, may not the sense be, as given by Bengel, "Does the Spirit, which has taken up his dwelling in us, lust enviously?" This latter interpretation is in all probability the right one.
“Jealousy (Qana)” From
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
“To be inflamed.” The warm affection that cannot
bear
to see its loved one enticed by another, as a
man
is jealous of his wife (
Num. 5:14
14
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled: (Numbers 5:14)
); as
Paul
felt for the Corinthian saints (
2 Cor. 11:2
2
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:2)
); and as
God
regarded the people and the land which He had chosen, and upon which He had placed His name (
Psa. 39:5
5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. (Psalm 39:5)
;
Ezek. 39:25
25
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; (Ezekiel 39:25)
;
Joel 2:18
18
Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people. (Joel 2:18)
;
Zech. 1:14
14
So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy. (Zechariah 1:14)
;
Zech. 8:2
2
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. (Zechariah 8:2)
). “
Jehovah
, whose name is jealous, is a jealous God” (
Ex. 34:14
14
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: (Exodus 34:14)
).
Moses
speaks of Jehovah provoking
Israel
to jealousy by their seeing
Gentiles
coming into
blessing
. Paul also sought to do the same that they might be saved (
Deut. 32:21
21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. (Deuteronomy 32:21)
;
Rom. 10:19
19
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. (Romans 10:19)
;
Rom. 11:11,14
11
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. (Romans 11:11)
14
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. (Romans 11:14)
).
THE
IMAGE
OF JEALOUSY, which provoketh to jealousy, was seen in a vision by
the
prophet
, set up in
the temple
(
Ezek. 8:3-5
3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
4
And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
5
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. (Ezekiel 8:3‑5)
), as when
Manasseh
set up the
graven image
in the
house
of Jehovah (
2 Kings 21:7
7
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: (2 Kings 21:7)
); though doubtless by the scope of the
prophecy
reference is made to secret
idolatry
in connection with the service of the temple, and to secret idols in the hearts of those who were professedly the worshippers of God: such would assuredly provoke the jealousy of Jehovah.
THE
LAW
OF JEALOUSY, when a man suspected his wife of being unfaithful to him, is given in
Numbers 5:11-31
11
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
12
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
13
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
14
And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
15
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16
And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:
17
And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
18
And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
19
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
20
But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
21
Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
22
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
23
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
24
And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
25
Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar:
26
And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
27
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
28
And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
29
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
30
Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
31
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity. (Numbers 5:11‑31)
. The
woman
was required to drink bitter water, composed of “holy water,” in which was placed
dust
from the floor of
the tabernacle
(
type
of
the
Holy
Spirit
applying what
death
is, as God’s
judgment
of
sin
, by
the word
to the
conscience
). If she had been unfaithful it would be a curse to her. It pointed figuratively to the question of Israel’s unfaithfulness to Jehovah.
Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:
Number:
3863
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Greek:
παραζηλόω
Transliteration:
parazeloo
Phonic:
par-ad-zay-lo’-o
Meaning:
from
3844
and
2206
; to stimulate alongside, i.e. excite to rivalry
KJV Usage:
provoke to emulation (jealousy)
Call: 1-630-543-1441
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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