ACHRELOS
American: useless
ANOPHELES
American: useless
MATALOTES
American: uselessness
In the last lesson, we studied usefullness. Here we consider the opposite.
Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions)
“There isn’t a dikaios [equitable, just, right] one; not even one. There isn’t one comprehending. There isn’t one seeking Theos. All turned away; together achreioo [rendered useless]. Not one is doing chrestoteta [usefulness]; not even one is. An opened grave is their larugx [throat, larynx]. With their glossais [tongues, languages] they are deceitful. Venom of asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are keen to shed blood. Destruction and wretchedness are in their path, and they not knew the path of peace. Fear of Theos isn’t from in front of their eyes.
Philemon 8: Therefore, having much directness [boldness] in the Christo to order [command] you to do the proper thing because of agapen [unconditional love], I rather parakalo [call near, invite, urge, exhort, encourage, solace] 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 to you but now euchreston [useful] to you and to me) whom I procreated in my bonds.
Luke
17.5: And the apostoloi [delegates, ambassadors, apostles] said to the
Kurio,
“Increase
our pistin [faith].”
Now, the Kurios said,
“If you have pistin as small as a kernel of mustard seed, you may say to this sycamore-fig tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and even it would obey you. Now, whom of you having a slave (plowing or shepherding, who enters emergent from the field) will say to him? ‘Having come in, directly recline to eat.’ Conversely, won’t you say to him, ‘Prepare something upon which I may dine and having girded yourself, serve me until I eat and imbibe and after doing these things, you may eat and imbibe.’ Does He hold gratitude to that slave because he did the acts prescribed to him? I think not. The same also you (when you have done all prescribed to you), say, ‘We are achreioi slaves. We have merely done what we ought to do.’”
Hebrews 7.11: If
therefore, perfection was via the Levitical priestly office (for the people
have been given The Law under it), why is there still need for another priest to arise (down to the order
of Melchizadek) and not to be said [called] down to the order of Aaron?
For the priestly office being changed, of necessity a change of law occurs. For
He of Whom these words are said has partaken of another tribe, from which not even
one man has given devotion at the
altar. For it is clear that our Kurios has arisen out of Judah, as to which
tribe Moses not spoke even one word
concerning priesthood. And it is still more abundantly quite clear, that if
another Priest arises, down to the likeness of Melchizadek, Who hasn’t been
caused to be so down to a law of a
fleshly command but He will be down
to the dunamin [force, power]
of an indissoluble life. For it is testified, “YOU ARE a Priest to the age, down to the order of Melchizadek.”
For
an annulment of the preceding command comes about because of its asthenes [strengthlessness,
weakness] and anopheles for The
Law perfected not even one person but
the present command is a bringing in
of a better elpidos [expectation, hope] via which we draw near to Theos.
And by how much occurs this? It isn’t
without oath-taking [swearing] for those truly are being caused to be
priests without oath-taking but He [Jesus] with oath-taking via Him [Father]
Who says to Him,
“The Kurios [Father] swore and won’t change His mind, ‘“YOU ARE a priest to the age down to the order of Melchizadek.’”
By so much, Jesus has been caused to be surety of a better blood covenant. In fact, there are many having been caused to be priests, being prevented to continue by death. But He has the priestly office, not to be passed on because He remains to the age [end of time]; therefore, He is also sozein [able to make safe, able to save] those to perfection, those drawing near to Theos via Him, ever living to intercede on their behalf. For such a High Priest was fitting to us; hagios [holy, sacred, consecrated], akakos [without worthlessness], undefiled, having been separated from hamartolon [missing the mark or goal; erring, offending, sinning] and being caused to be higher than the ouranon [the skies, the heavens], Who hasn’t need (as do the high priests) to offer sacrifices down day by day (firstly, for their own hamartion, then for those of the people). For He did this once for everyone, offering Himself up. For The Law appoints men (having infirmity) high priests but the logos [word] of the oath-taking, after the giving of The Law, appoints a Son having been perfected to the age.
Titus 3.9: But stay aloof from stupid speculations, tracing by generations, quarrelling and battling of law for these are anopheleis and empty. Avoid a heretic [schismatic, divider] amidst [after] one and a second warning, knowing that such a one has been perverted and hamartanei [misses the mark or goal; errs, offends, sins], being self-condemned.
2nd Peter 2.9: The Kurios knows how to rescue the well-reverent emergent from the testing but the unjust are being curtailed [contained] to a day of kriseos [decision, judgment rendered, verdict] but especially those traveling backwards in fleshly lusting and disgusting leadership [authority]. These are brazen darers, self-pleasing, not trembling when blasphemountes [speaking irreverently, profaning, blaspheming] the glorious, where aggeloi (being greater in strength and dunamei [force, power]) not bring down on them a blasphemon [abusive] krisin [judgment] in proximity of [before] the Kurio. But these are like irrational, physical-living animals having been procreated to capture and to slaughter. Blasphemountes where they have no knowledge, they shall be totally destroyed in their ruin; taken care of for injustice by suitable wages. They consider daytime indulgence a pleasure, reveling in stains and flaws in their delusions, faring well with you. Having eyes full of a moichalidos [adulteress], also not refraining from hamartias, they are entrapping unstable psuchas [souls, lives, psyches, egos]. Having a heart trained in avarice, having accursed children, abandoning the straight road, they have been caused to stray, following out the road of Balaam the son of Beor, who egapesen [loved] the wages of injustice. But he received a reprimand for his own transgression. For a mute beast of burden, speaking in the phone [sound, tone, noise, voice] of a man, restrained the insanity of the prophetou [before-seer, prophet]. These are waterless fountains, clouds driven by tornadoes, for whom the gloom of shadiness is reserved to the ages. For speaking puffed out words of matalotes, in licentiousness they entrap (in the lusts of the flesh) those barely escaping these overturned-in-fraudulence [error]; professing freedom to them while themselves being slaves under corruption [decay]. For by what someone has been made worse [defeated], to this he has also been enslaved. For if having escaped the contamination of the kosmou [universe, world, cosmos] in a recognition of the Kuriou and Soteros [deliverer, savior], (Jesus, the Christou) and again being entangled by these and been made worse, the last state has been caused to be worse to them than the first. For it would be better for them not to have recognized the road of dikaiosunes [equity, justification, rightness], than recognizing it, to revert [turn back around, 180 degrees] emergent from the hagias commands transmitted to them. But to them has happened the truth of the proverb: “A dog reverts upon its own vomit and a bathed hog reverts into a muddy wallow.”
Matthew 25.24: Now, also approaching, he having received the one talent said, ‘Kurie! I knew you, that you are a hard man, harvesting where you not sowed and collecting from where you not winnowed and fearing (going away), I hid your talent in the earth. LO! you have what is yours.’ But responding his kurios said to him, ‘Ponere [Hurtful] and lazy slave! You knew that I harvest where I not sowed and collect where I not winnowed. Accordingly, it behooved you to throw my silver to the bankers and coming back, I would have received mine with interest. Accordingly, take up from him the talent and give it to him having the ten talents, for him having, all will be given, and he will super-abound but from him not having, even the little that he has will be taken up from him. And eject the achreion slave outside into obscurity. There [In that place] will be lamentation and grinding of the teeth.’”
End of Ninety-seventh Lesson
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