Lesson 55 Amplified – ETHNOS

 ETHNOS – ETHNOI 

American: sing; nation, race, non-Jew, gentile – plur; nations, races, non-Jews, gentiles

Hebrew: gowy 

There were two distinct groupings of people in the days of which the New Blood Covenant or New Testament writings were written -- the ethnoi and the Jews. The apostles treated them differently. They send one contingent to save the Jews and another contingent to save the ethnoi. 

Almost Greek [Words in italics are translator’s additions.] 

GENESIS 22.18: [YHWH speaking] “… surely, I will multiply your zera [descendants] as the stars of the skies and the sand which is on the lip of the sea. Your Zera [Jesus, the Christ] shall own the gate of His enemies. All the gowy of the earth shall be blest in your Zera …”

 

Romans 4.16: Because of this, it is of pisteos [faith, reliance] and that down to charin [graciousness], to set [confirm] the epaggelian [announcement, proclamation, promise] to the whole population of the spermati [descendants] (not only to the sperma of The Law [the Jews]), conversely, also to that of the pisteos of Abraham, who is the father of us all. Even as it has been written,

“As father of many ethnon, I have placed you.” 

GENESIS 17.4-6: Elohiym spoke with Abram saying, “I AM! LO! My blood covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of a crowd of gowy.” 

Continuing Romans: And this was before Theos, in Whom he episteuse [had faith], the One making alive the dead and calling the things not being into being. Near elpida [expectation, hope] upon elpidi, he episteusen [had faith] toward his being caused to be a father of many ethnon down to what was said, “So, shall your sperma be.” 

GENESIS 22.16: “By Myself have I sworn,” groans YHWH, “because you have obeyed My dabar [logos] and haven’t spared your son (your one and only son), I will bless you and bless you. I will increase and increase your zera as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the lip of the sea. Your zera shall own the gates of their adversaries. In your zera, all the gowy of the earth shall be blest because you have listened to and obeyed My voice.” 

Romans11.11: I say then, didn’t they [the Jews] trip [stumble, err] in order that they fall? Not let it be caused to be! Conversely, by their paraptomati [unintentional sideslips, lapses, deviations] came soteria [rescue, safety, salvation] to the ethnesin to provoke them to jealousy. But if their paraptomati be wealth to the kosmou [universe, world, cosmos] and their deterioration [failure] be wealth to the ethnon, think how much more wealth their completion will be! In fact, I am apostolos [delegate, ambassador, apostle] over the ethnon, therefore, I speak to you, the ethnon. I glorify my service if (somehow) I may make my own flesh [race] jealous and soso [may make safe, may save] some emergent from them. 

Romans 11.25: Now, I don't want you to be ignorant of this musterion [secret, mystery], brothers, (lest you be wise in yourselves [your own estimation]) that a part off Israel is caused to be callous until the ethnon enter completion and then in this way all Israel sothesetai [will be made safe, will be saved], just as has been written, “The Rescuer will arrive emergent from Zion and He will turn away [back] Jacob from impiety.” 

ISAIAH 59.20: “... the Redeemer comes to Zion and to those in Jacob, turning them back from rebellion.” 

Acts 13.44: Now, the coming sabbath, all the city was convened to hear the Logon of Theos. Now, seeing the throng, the Judaeans were filled with zelou [heat: jealousy, envy, malice] and disputed the words being spoken through Paul; disputing and blasphemountes [speaking irreverently, profanely; blaspheming]. But Paul and Joses Bar Nabas said, “Firstly, it was necessary that the Logon [Word] of Theos be spoken to you but now, since you reject it and krinete [distinguish, decide, judge, put on trial] yourselves not deserving of eternal life, LO! we turn to the ethne for the Kurios commanded us: ‘I have placed you into a luminescence of the ethnon. You are to be to soterian, until [as far as] the ends of the earth.’” Now, hearing this, the ethnon rejoiced and rendered glory to the Logon of the Kuriou and as many as episteusan [had faith] were assigned into eternal life. Now, the Logos of the Kuriou was carried via the whole territory but the Judaeans incited the devout, well-formed [high-ranking] gunaikas [women] and the chiefs of the city and roused persecution upon Paul and Joses Bar Nabas and they ejected the same from their borders. 

Acts 15.12: Now, all the crowd kept silent and heard Joses Bar Nabas and Paul recounting what semeia [signs, indications] and terata [wonders, miracles] Theos did (via them) in [among] the ethnesi. Now, amidst their keeping silent, James Bar Joseph responded, saying, “Men! brothers! listen to me! Simeon the Rock has recounted, just as firstly, Theos saw fit to take emergent from the ethnon a people upon whom His name [authority] would rest. And the logoi of the propheton [before tellers, prophets] are harmonious to this,

 

Acts 15.19: [“James the Just” continues] “Via this, I not krino to further harass those from the ethnon who are reverting upon Theos. Conversely, command in writing to them to hold themselves off from the defilements of idols and off from porneia [whoring, incest, non-marital sexual intercourse] and off from eating the flesh of strangled and not bled animals and off from consuming blood.”

[The apostles thus freed the gentiles from circumcision and obeying The LAW which the Judaeans were attempting to foist upon the newly saved gentiles.] 

End of Fifty-fifth Lesson