Lesson 80 Amplified -- SPERMA

 SPERMA – SPERMAI 

American singular: descendant, seed, sperm -- plural: descendants

Hebrew Aramaic singular: zera 

Although this Koine Greek word also means seed and sperm, our focus here is upon descendants. 

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

Galatians 3.15: Brothers! down to man I say, not even one man sets aside or adds to even a covenant being ratified by man. Now, to Abraham were spoken the epaggelian [announcements, proclamations, promises] and to his “Sperma”. It not says, “and to the spermai,” as to many, but merely as over One: “… and to your Sperma,” (Who is the Christos [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ]).

 

GENESIS 13.15: [YHWH speaking] “I will make your zera as the dust of the earth.”

 

GENESIS 22.18: [YHWH speaking] “… surely, I will multiply your zera 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 [ethnoi: nations, races, non-Jews, gentiles] of the earth shall be blest in your Zera …”

 

[Galatians 3 continued]: This I say, a covenant previously ratified under Theos into the Christou isn’t annulled by The Law (coming into being 430 years later), as to abolish the epaggelian. For if the inheritance is emergent from The Law, no longer is it emergent from epaggelian. But Theos has given it to Abraham via epaggelias. Why then exists The Law? It was added because of the parabasis [going contrary to, violating], being instituted via aggeloi [messengers, angels], resting in a go-between’s hand until the Sperma should come, upon Whom the epaggelian epeggeltai [was announced, was proclaimed, was promised]. Now, the go-between [Moses] isn’t first but Theos is First. Is then The Law against the epaggelian of Theos? Let it not be caused to be! For if a law had been given that was able to make alive, indeed dikaiosune [equity, justification, rightness] would have been emergent from that law. Conversely, now the Graphe [Scripture, part of Old Testament] has subjected everyone under hamartian [misses of the mark or goal; errors, offenses, sins] in order that the epagglia emergent from pistis might be given to those having pistis in Jesus, the Christou. Before the coming of pistin, we were being guarded under The Law; having been made subject to the pistin being about to be revealed. So also, The Law has been caused to be our trainer into the Christon in order that we dikaiothomen [might be justified] emergent from pisteos. Now, pisteos having come [arrived], we are no longer under a trainer. For you are all sons of Theos via pistis in Jesus, the Christo. For as many of you as were ebaptisthete [immersed, submerged, baptized] into the Christon, you put on the Christos. There aren’t in you Jews nor Greeks; there isn’t in you slave nor freeman [citizen]; there isn’t in you male nor female; for you are all one in the Christo Jesus. Now, if you are of the Christou, then you are spermai of Abraham; even heirs down to epaggelian.

 

Romans 4.13: For not via law came the epaggelia to Abraham nor to his Spermati, He to be inheritor of the kosmou; conversely, it came via dikaiosunes of pisteos. For if those emergent from law are heirs, pistis has been nullified and the epaggelia kekenotai [rendered empty]. For The Law works out the completion of orgen [violent passion, fury, rage, wrath] but where The Law isn’t [doesn’t exist], neither is there violation. Because of this, it is of pisteos and that down to charin [graciousness], to set [confirm] the epaggelian to the whole population of the spermati (not only to the sperma of The Law), 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: 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 [ethnoi].”

 

[Romans continued] 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: word] 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.”

 

Romans 9.6: Not imagine that the Logos of Theos has failed for not all those emergent from Israel are Israel, neither are they all children of Abraham because they are sperma of Abraham. Conversely, “In Isaac a Sperma will be called to you.”

 

GENESIS 21.12: [YHWH speaking] “in Jitschak [Isaac] your Zera shall be called out to.”

 

Acts 3.24: Now, also all the prophetai [before tellers, prophets] (consecutively from Samuel and those thereafter, as many as spoke) prokateggeilan [before promulgating, before publishing, before officially making known] these days. You are sons of the propheton and of the first blood covenant [Old Testament] which Theos set aside by bequest of our forefathers, saying to Abraham, ‘Also in your Sperma shall all the patria [groups of families or whole races] of the earth be blest.’”

 

GENESIS 22.18: [YHWH speaking] “In your Zera shall all the gowy of the earth be blest.”

 

2nd Timothy 2.7: Consider what I say for the Kurios will give you understanding in everything. Remember Jesus the Christos, having been awakened emergent from dead, emergent from the sperma of David down to my euangelion [good news, gospel, evangel] in which I undergo hardship (as far as shackles) as a wrongdoer [criminal] but the Logos of Theos hasn’t been bound. 

End of Eightieth Lesson