Lesson 41 Amplified – KOSMOS

 

KOSMOS 

American: universe, world, cosmos 

The American language has assimilated the Greek word “kosmos”, spelling it “cosmos”, and retaining the Greek meaning: universe or world. 

Almost Greek:(Words in italics are translator’s additions.) 

1^st Corinthians 1.20: Where is the wise? Where is the grammateus [writer, recorder, scribe, secretary]? Where is the sophos [disputer, sophist] of this age? Didn't Theos make the wisdom of this kosmou foolish? For since (in the wisdom of Theos) the kosmos not knew Theos via wisdom, Theos was pleased (via the foolishness of kerugmatos [proclamation]) to sosai [make safe, save] those pisteuontas [having faith]. Jews ask for a semeion [sign, indication] and Greeks seek wisdom but we kerussouen [herald, proclaim] the Christou [Anointed One, Messiah, Mashiyah, Christ] having been crucified. To Judaeans He is a skandalon [stumbling block, snare, scandal] and to Greeks He is foolishness but to the invited ones (both to Jews and to Greeks [all non-Jews]) the Christon is the dunamin [force, power] and the wisdom of Theos. For the stupid one of Theos is wiser than men and the weak one of Theos is stronger than men. For in your calling, brothers, you see that not many are wise down to flesh; not many are dunatoi; not many are well-born, but Theos selected the stupid of the kosmou in order that He might make the wise ashamed. Theos selected the weak ones of the kosmou in order that He might make ashamed the forcible [strong, powerful]. Theos selected the ignoble and the despised and those not being in order that He might katargeo [render entirely idle, useless] those being, so that no flesh might boast before Him. Now, emergent from Him, you are in Jesus, the Christo, Who was caused to be (to us) wisdom from Theos, also dikaiosune [equity, justification, rightness] and purification and redemption! 

1^st Corinthians 5.9: I write to you (in this letter) not closely and habitually to associate with pornois [male prostitutes] but not entirely to shun all the pornois of this kosmou nor with the greedy nor with plunderers nor with idolaters. Therefore, you might think that I am telling you that you must issue forth emergent from the kosmou. But actually, I write to you not to associate with anyone if he is called a brother! who is either a pornos or greedy or an idolater or abusive or a drunkard or a plunderer. Do not eat with such! For what is it to me to judge those outside the faith? Don't you judge those inside the faith? Theos will judge those outside the faith. You shall exairo [remove] the poneros [hurtful] one from among yourselves. Verse 6: Dares anyone of you (having a matter against another of you) to be judged before the adikeo [unjust] and not before the hagion [holy ones, sacred ones, consecrated ones; saints]? Don't you know that the hagioi will judge the kosmon? And if the kosmos is judged by you, are you unworthy of small judgments? Don’t you know that we will judge aggeloi [messengers, angels]? (I’m not speaking of this present life.) If in fact then, you have judgments in this life, do you seat as judges those being least esteemed in the ekklesia? I say, “Shame on you!” Isn’t in you a wise one? Is not one in your midst who will be able to judge between his brothers? 

Ephesians 6.10: For the rest, my brothers, be empowered in the Kurio and in the might of His strength. Put on the whole armor of Theos for you to be able to stand against the wiles of the diabolou [leader to shame, devil, satyr] because it isn’t us wrestling against flesh and blood, but against the chiefs, against the forces, against the kosmos-rulers of the shadiness of this age; against the pneumatika [spiritual] powers of ponerias [whoring, committing incest, doing non-marital sexual intercourse] above the sky! Because of this, take up the whole armor of Theos in order that you may be able to stand against [oppose] in the ponera [hurtful] day, and having worked out all, to stand. 

1^st Peter 1.17: And if you address, as Father, the One impartially judging down to each one’s work, in fear pass the space of time of your alien residence upon the earth, knowing that you weren’t redeemed with perishable silver or gold, emergent from your empty behavior handed down from fathers but with precious blood (as of an unblemished and unstained lamb), the blood of the Christou. He having been known beforehand (before the depositing [founding] of the kosmou) but revealed at the final space of time via [for the sake of] you; those having pisteuontas via Him into Theos, the One awakening Him emergent from dead and giving glory to Him in order that your pistin [faith] and elpida [expectation, hope] are into Theos. 

1^st John 2.12: I write to you, babes, because your hamartiai [misses of the mark or goal; errors, offences, sins] apheontai [have been sent forth, have been forsaken, have been forgiven] via His name [authority]. I write to you, fathers because you have known the One Who has been from the beginning. I write to you, youths because you have subdued the poneron [hurtful] one. I have written to you, children because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers because you have known the One Who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, youths because you are strong, and the Logos of Theos abides in you, and you have subdued the poneron one. Don’t agapate [unconditionally love] the kosmon nor the things in the kosmo. If anyone agapa the kosmon, the agape of the Father isn’t in him for all that is in the kosmo (the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boasting of life) isn’t emergent from the Father but is emergent from the kosmou. Now, the kosmos and all its lust is being led away [or is going away] but he, doing the thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree] of Theos, abides to the age. 

End of Forty-first Lesson