SPLEN
American: spleen, guts,
bowels, pity, sympathy; inward affection + tender mercy
Hebrew Aramaic: racham
Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language defines spleen as a ductless organ in the human body and was formerly regarded as the seat of certain emotions: malice, spite, bad temper; also [archaic] melancholy, low spirits. These are certainly negative feelings. In the New Blood Covenant the feelings are generally positive.
Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions)
2nd Corinthians 6.11 Our [My] mouth is opened up [has spoken] to you, O Corinthians! Our [My] heart has been opened wide. You aren’t hemmed in, in us [me]. You are hemmed in but in your splen. But for the same recompense [in similar exchange], as to children I speak, you also are opened wide!
2nd Corinthians 7.13: Via this reason I more superabundantly parakeklemetha [have been encouraged] over your paraklesei [invitation, encouragement] and even more, I rejoice over the joy of Titus, because he has been rested [refreshed] off all of you, that if I have boasted anything over you all to him, I wasn't shamed down. As we [I] spoke the whole truth to you, so also our [my] boasting over Titus was caused to be the truth. Titus’ splen is toward you more superabundantly, he remembering the attentive listening obedience of you all as you received him with fear and trembling. I then rejoice that in all I exercise courage [have confidence] in you.
Colossians 3.12: Accordingly, dress yourself in the manner of the chosen of Theos: hagioi [holy , sacred, consecrated ones] and egapemenoi [unconditionally loved], splen of pity, chrestoteta [usefulness], humility, gentleness, forbearance; enduring one another and forgiving yourselves. In case anyone (toward any) has a complaint, just as (in fact) the Christos forgave you, so also should you.
Philemon 7: For we have much joy and solace over your agape, brother, that the splen of the hagion have been rested [refreshed] via you. Therefore, having much directness [boldness] in the Christo to order [command] you to do the proper thing because of agapen, I rather parakalo [call near, invite, urge, exhort, encourage] you to do it. Being of this sort (just now an old man and a captive of Jesus, the Christou), I, Paul, parakalo you concerning my child Onesimus [“Profitable”], the one at one time achrelos [useless] to you but now euchreston [useful] to you, and to me, whom I procreated in my bonds. I have sent him back to you in person; that is sending my very splen. Receive him! whom I wished to keep with me in order that he might serve me for you [in your place] in my bonds [imprisonment] for the euaggelion [good news, gospel, evangel]. But I eboulomen [resolved, willed, intended] not to do even one thing apart from your consent in order that your good deed wouldn’t be down to constraint [necessity] but down to voluntariness. For perhaps via this, he was separated from you for an hour in order that you might totally and perpetually receive him; no longer as a slave but above and beyond a slave, as an agapeton brother (especially to me and how much more to you), both in the flesh and in the Kurio. If then you hold me as a koinonon [sharer, partner], receive him as you would receive me. If he was unjust to you in anything or owes you, reckon [charge] it to my account. I, “Paul”, wrote with my hand. I will repay you in full in order that I not say to you that (in fact) you owe your now-saved self to me. Yes, brother, may I be gratified of [by] you in the Kurio? Do rest [refresh] my splen in the Kurio.
Philippians 1.8: For Theos is my witness of how I yearn for you all in the splen of Jesus, the Christou. And this I proseuchomai [humbly beg God, pray] in order that your agape [unconditional love] yet more and more superabound in discernment and in all perception to your bearing through testing in order that you be proven sincere and inoffensive to the day of the Christou. You having been made replete [complete] with fruits of dikaiosunes [equity, justification, rightness] via Jesus, the Christou, to the glory and the praise of Theos.
Philippians 2: Accordingly, if there is any paraklesis in the Christo, if any consolation of agapes, if any koinonia of the Hagios Pneuma, if any splen and pity, make my joy complete in order that you think the same [are of one mind]: having the same agapen, sumpsuchoi [one in psuche], one in thinking [opinion].
Luke 1.76: “And you, child, will be called a prophetes [before-teller, prophet] of the Highest for you will proporeuoe [proceed as a herald] in front of the face of the Kuriou to prepare His road, to give a knowledge of soterias [rescue, safety, salvation] to His people in freedom of [from] their hamartion [misses of the mark or goal; errors, offences, sins] via the splen of compassion of our Theos in which He will visit us (the Dawn emergent from above to shine upon those in shadiness and in the shade [shadow] of death), sitting down as a ruler to fully straighten [direct] our feet into a road of peace.”
Luke
7.11: And it was caused to be in the next day,
that He traveled into a city called Nain [“Pleasantness”], Galilee and an ample number of His
mathetai [learners, pupils, disciples] and a great crowd journeyed with
Him. Now, as He approached the gate of the city, Lo! the onlyborn son of his mother (and she was a widow) having
died, his body was being borne forth for burial. And the populace of the city
appropriately was with her. And the Kurios had His splen yearn over her and said to her, “Not sob!”
And approaching, He touched the bier. Now, those
bearing the bier stood still. And He said, “Youth! to you I
say, eleken [arise]!” And the formerly dead one sat up and began to speak and He
gave him back to his mother.
Mark 1.40: And comes to Him a
scaly [leper], imploring Him and falling on his knees to Him and saying
to Him, “Provided that You thelos [determine, choose, decide, decree], You
have the dunasai [force, power] to cleanse me.” And Jesus (having
yearning in His splen) extending His hand, He touched him and says to
him, “I theLO! Be clean!”
And He having spoken, directly the scaliness [leprosy] went off from him and he was cleansed.
Matthew 14.13: Now hearing [having heard of the death of John bar Zacharias], Jesus withdrew from there (in a sailboat) to His own isolated place. And having heard, the throngs followed Him from the cities on foot. And issuing forth, Jesus saw the huge throng and His splen yearned upon them and He healed their infirm.
End of Eighty-first
Lesson
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