Now we address the anger of Father God. Two Koine Greek words are used in the New Testament for this negative emotion.
ORGE
American singular: violent passion, fury, rage, wrath
Hebrew singular: zaam, chemah, chema
THUMOS, THUMOI
American singular: passion, anger, indignation
-- plural: passions, angers, indignations
Hebrew singular: aph
Clearly the former is more violent than the latter. The following excerpts display the distinctions.
Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions.)
1st Thessalonians 5.9: For Theos not placed us prostrate into orge but for acquisition of soteria [rescue, safety, salvation] via our Kurios Jesus, the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ], the One having died on our behalf in order that whether we keep awake [live] or we sleep [die], we may live together with Him.
Romans 1.18: For the orge of Theos (from Ouranou [Heaven]) is uncovered upon all impiety and injustice of men suppressing the truth in injustice because the well-known truth concerning Theos is shining [apparent] in them for Theos revealed it to them.
Romans 2.5: But because of your skleroteta [callous, hard] and impenitent heart, you are accumulating for yourself orgen in a day of orges and a revelation of the dikaiokarisias [right judgment] of Theos, Who will give to each one down [according] to his work. Theos will give to those in fact by cheerful endurance in good work (seeking glory, timen [value, esteem] and incorruptibility [immortality]), eternal life but to those emergent from intrigue (even in fact willfully disbelieving the truth but approving injustice), He gives thumos and orge. There will be stress and calamity for every psuche [soul, life, psyche, ego] of man working totally kakon [the worthless], (firstly for the Jew and also for the Greek) but glory, time [value, esteem] and peace for everyone working good (firstly for the Jew and also for the Greek) for there isn’t partiality with Theos.
Romans 9.22: What if Theos thelon [determined, chose, decided, decreed] to display orgen and to make His dunaton [force, power] known, endured in much forbearance vessels of orges (having been thoroughly completed toward destruction) and did so in order that He might display the wealth of His glory upon vessels of compassion which He prepared in advance for glory, whom He also called; us, not only emergent from Jews, conversely, also emergent from the ethnon [nations, races, non-Jews, Gentiles].
Romans 12.19: Not avenge yourselves, agapetoi [unconditionally beloved]; conversely, give place [space, room] for the orge of Theos for it has been written, “Revenge belongs to Me. I will repay,” says the Kurios.
DEUTERONOMY 32.35 [YHWH] “... Revenge belongs to Me and recompense.”
Romans 13: Let every psuche be subordinate [subject] to superior [higher] authorities for there isn’t authority, if not from Theos but the existing authorities exist due to having been arranged [instituted] under Theos. So too, the one opposing authority opposes the arrangement [institution] of Theos and those having opposed Him will receive a krima [decision, judgment rendered, verdict] to themselves. Rulers aren’t a cause of fears to those doing good works, but they are to the kakon [worthless]. Now, do you want not to fear authority? Do good and you will have praise emergent from the same for he is a servant of Theos for good to you but in case you do kakon, do fear! for he NOT eike [idly, vainly] wears the sword for he is a servant of Theos, a punisher to orgen of the one practicing kakon. Because of this, it is necessary to be in subjection, not merely because of orgen, conversely, because of conscience.
Colossians 3.5: Accordingly, make your limbs [members] upon the earth dead to porneian [depravity], impurity, pathos [passion], lust, kakia [worthlessness] and avarice which is idolatry for which activities the orge of Theos is coming upon the sons of apeitheias [willful disbelief].
Hebrews 3.7: Therefore, the Hagios Pneuma says, “Today if you hear His voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the provocation in the day of the temptation in the wasteland, when your forefathers tempted Me (testing Me) and saw My works for forty years. Therefore, I was prosochthisa [vexed, annoyed] with that generation and I said, ‘They always err in their heart, and they didn’t know My ways,’ so I swore in My orge, ‘They shan’t enter into My katapausin [rest].’”
PSALM 95.7: “Today if you will hear His voice, don’t harden your hearts as in Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wasteland, when your forefathers tempted Me. They tested Me and saw My work for forty years. I was disgusted with that generation and said, ‘They are a people who vacillate in their heart, and they don’t know My road [ways],’ to whom I swore in My zaam, ‘If shall [Not shall] they enter into My rest.’”
Hebrews 4.2: For we, those pisteussantes [having faith], enter into the rest even as He said, “As I swore in My orge, ‘They shan’t enter into My rest,’”
PSALM 95.10: “For forty years I was disgusted with that generation and said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart, and they don’t know My [Father God’s] ways, to whom I swore in my aph, ‘If they shall [They shan’t] enter into My rest.’”
Ephesians 5.3: Not let porneia nor all [any] impurity nor greediness be named in you (as is fitting for hagiois) nor filthiness nor foolish speaking nor joking, the not becoming, but rather eucharistia [gratefully giving thanks] to Theos. For be knowing this, that every [not any] pornos or [nor] impure one or [nor] greedy one (who is an idolater), not has inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christou and of Theos. Not let even one man deceive you with empty logois [words] for via these actions comes the orge of Theos upon the sons of disobedience.
End of Forty-second Lesson
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