Lesson 59 Amplified – NOUS

 NOUS 

American: intellect, mind, understanding 

That our minds are actively working from our awakening to our falling asleep is clear. In fact, dreaming tells us that the mind is working even as we sleep. At times it seems that we open our minds to the input of the devil. Do our judgmental thoughts come from there? We should guard our minds from such. We should only entertain beautiful and constructive thoughts. At least we should try. 

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

2^nd Thessalonians 2: Brothers! we ask you over the coming of our Kurios Jesus, the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ], and our gathering together to Him, not to waver in the nous; not to be frightened neither via pneuma [wind, breath, spirit] nor via logos [word] nor via letter (as if from me) as if the Day of the Christos is come. Let not even one person deceive you not (in no way) because unless the apostasia [defection from the truth, apostasy] comes first and the man of hamartia [misses of the mark or goal, error, offense, sin] is revealed (the son of destruction, he who is opposite to Theos and is exalting himself over everything relating to Theos or object of worship), to sit down in the Temple of Theos, as if Theos (showing that he himself is a theos), the Day of the Christos hasn’t come.

 

1st Corinthians 1.10: Brothers! I now parakalo [call near, invite, urge, exhort, encourage] you (via the name of our Kuriou Jesus, the Christou) that you all say the same logos and there not be in you, schismai [splits, divisions, schisms] but that you be united in the same nous and opinion. 

1st Corinthians 4.6: Now, these words, brothers, I applied to myself and Apollos (via [for] you) in order that (in us) you may learn not to exercise the nous above what has been written in order that not one of you is puffed up over [above] the other one. For who thoroughly separates? What have you that you haven’t received? If you received, why boast as if not receiving? You are already crammed. You have already become rich. 

1st Corinthians 14.13: Therefore, let him, speaking in a glosse [tongue, language], proseuchestho [humbly beg God, pray] in order that he may be able to dierueneue [thoroughly explain, interpret]. For if I proseuchomai in a glosse, my pneumati proseuchomai but my nous is empty. Then, what is to be? I will proseuchomai with the [my] pneumati and I will also proseuchomai with the [my] nous. I sing with the [my] pneumati and I also sing with the [my] nous. If you eulogeses [speak well of, praise, bless] in the pneumati, how will the one occupying the position of the idiotes [know-nothing, ignoramus] say the “Amen” to your eucharistia [gratefully giving thanks], since he not knows what you say? Indeed, you echaristeis well but the other isn’t built up. I echaristo to my Theos for I speak in glossais more than all of you. Conversely, in an ekklesia, I determine rather to speak five logoi with my nous in order that I may also instruct others than murioi [10,000; innumerable, myriads] of logoi in glosse. Brothers! not be children in the nous but be like infants in kakia [worthlessness] and be complete [mature] in the nous. 

Romans 1.28: Just as they did not see fit to acknowledge Theos any longer, Theos surrendered them to their unapproved nous to do the improper, having been made full of the whole of injustice, porneia [whoring, incest, non-marital sexual intercourse], greed, kakia [worthlessness]; full of decay, killing, quarrels, deceit, kakoetheia [bad character], whispering slanderers, haters of Theos; insolent, arrogant, braggarts, inventors of kakion, defiant to parents, undiscerning, covenant breakers, astorge [without love for one’s family], truce breakers and merciless. 

Romans 12.3: For via the charitos [graciousness] given to me, I say to everyone, being in yourself, not to esteem yourself too much, exercising the nous [philosophizing] beyond what is necessary. Conversely, exercise the nous into being sound as Theos has apportioned to each a measure of pisteos. 

Titus 1.15: In fact, to the clean, all is clean but to those having been defiled and apeitheis [unpersuadable], not even one thing is clean but has been defiled by them, even their nous and their conscience. 

End of Fifty-ninth Lesson