Lesson 92 Amplified -- KANON

 KANON 

American: a rule, a standard, a canon 

            According to Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, canon comes from the Greek kanon: a reed, a rod, 1. a law or body of laws of a church such as the Roman Catholic, Anglican, (etc.) Canon, 2. any law or decree, 3. a standard used in judging something; a criterion, 4. a list of books of the Bible officially accepted by the church as genuine. 

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

Galations 6.14: But may it not be caused to be that I boast, except in the cross of our Kuriou Jesus, the Christou [Anointed One, Messiah, Mashiyach, Christ], via Whom the kosmos [universe, world, cosmos] has been crucified to me and I to the kosmos. For in Jesus, the Christo, neither circumcision has any strength nor with-foreskin; conversely, a new creation has the power and to as many as shall march by this kanon, peace and compassion be upon them and upon the Israel of Theos. 

2nd Corinthians 10: I myself, Paul, parakalo [call near, invite, urge, exhort, encourage, solace] you via the gentleness and appropriateness of the Christou. I who face to face indeed am lowly in [among] you but courageous toward you when absent. But I request that, when I am near to you, I may be not courageous with confidence which I estimate to be bold over some, those regarding me as walking down to flesh. Although walking in flesh, I not war down to flesh for the implements of my soldiering are not fleshly, conversely, dunata [forceful, powerful] to Theos toward demolishing castles [strongholds], demolishing imaginations and every elevated thing exalting itself down to [against] the knowledge of Theos and making captive the whole perception in attentive hearkening to the Christou and being ready to avenge all inattention [disobedience], whenever your attentive hearkening is made replete [complete]. You look at [judge] down to external appearances. If anyone is convinced himself to be [that he is] of the Christou, let him consider again (away from himself) that just as he is of the Christou, in this way we are [I am] also of the Christou. For if I boast somewhat more superabundantly with respect to our [my] authority (which the Kurios gave to me for your up-building and not for your demolition), I won’t be put to shame for I do not wish to seem as if I would terrify you via my letters. For they say,

“Indeed, in his letters he is weighty and forceful, but in somatos [bodily] presence, he is weak, and his logos is contemptible.”

Let such a one consider this, that what I am in logos by letters when absent, in fact I am also in actions when present. For I do not dare to rank myself with some of those commending themselves; conversely, when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding. But I won’t immoderately boast; conversely, down to the measure of the kanonos which Theos apportioned to me (as a measure to reach even as far as you) for we aren’t [I am not] overextending ourselves [myself] as if not reaching even as far as you for I was the first to come so far as you in the euaggelio [good news, gospel, evangel] of the Christou. Not toward immoderate boasting in another’s toil but having elpida [expectation, hope] that the growing pisteos [reliance, faith] in you would be megalunyhenai [declared great] (down to our kanona) toward surplusage [over-supply] to euaggelisasthai [preaching the good news] above and beyond you (not prepared to boast in another’s kanoni). Now, he boasting, let him boast in the Kurio. 

Philippians 3: Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Kurio. To write the same things to you again truly isn’t irksome to me but is security for you. Watch out for the dogs [male prostitutes]! Watch out for the workers of kakia [worthlessness]! Watch out for the mutilated [circumcised] only in body! for we are the circumcised in soul, serving Theos by the Hagios Pneuma of Theos, boasting in Jesus, the Christo; not relying in the flesh. And yet I, myself, might even have reliance also in the flesh. If anyone else thinks [has a mind] to rely in the flesh, I, myself, far more: circumcised the eighth day after birth, emergent from the kin of Israel (of the tribe of Benjamin), a Hebrew emergent from Hebrews, down to The Law [1^st five books of Old Testament, Pentateuch, Books of Moses] a Pharisee, down to zelon [heat: zeal, ardor; jealousy, envy, malice] pursuing [persecuting] the ekklesian [assemblies, churches]; blameless down to dikaiosunen [equity, justification, rightness] in The Law. But whatever things were gain to me, I have deemed loss for the sake of the Christou. So then, at the very least, I also deem everything loss to me via the superiority of knowing my Kuriou Jesus, the Christou, via Whom I suffered the loss of everything and deem it dog food in order that I might gain the Christou and be found in Him. I am not having my dikaiosunen in The Law but via the pisteos of the Christou, having the dikaiosunen based upon pistei emergent from Theos. Blest to know Him and the dunamin [force, power] of His anastaseos [a standing up again, resurrection] and the koinonian [sharing, partnership] of His sufferings, being rendered-like [conformed to] His death in order that (in some way) I may attain exanastasin [rising from dead, resurrection]. Not that even now I have obtained resurrection nor even now have been completed [perfected] but I pursue in order that I may also lay hold of that over which I also was laid hold under Jesus, the Christou. Brothers! I, of myself, not reckon to have laid hold of it yet but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind me and stretching forward to the things before me, I pursue down to a goal for the prize of the exalted invitation of Theos in Jesus, the Christo. Accordingly, as many as are complete, let us think this [have this attitude]. So, if you think anything different [have a different attitude], Theos will reveal even this to you; yet march by the same kanoni to which we have attained of the same one mind. 

End of Ninety-second Lesson