Lesson 113 Amplified -- PRAUTES

 PRAUTES

American: mildness, humbleness

Hebrew Aramaic: hesuchiou 

PRAUTETOS

American: mild, humble

Hebrew Aramaic: hesuchiou 

Most New Testament translations still use the feckless “meekness” and “meek” for these Koine Greek words. “Meek” is defined by Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language: “2a. tamely submissive; easily imposed upon; 2b. too submissive; spineless; spiritless.” Christians are not meek and certainly not our Lord Jesus. 

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

James 1.19: So too, my agapetoi [ unconditionally loved] brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to orgen [violent passion, fury, rage, wrath] for the orge of man not works the dikaiosunen [equity, justification, rightness] of Theos. Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of the kakias [worthlessness], in prauteti receive the implanted logon [word] sosai [being able to make safe, being able to save] your psuchas [souls, lives, psyches, egos]. Be caused to be doers of the Logou [Word] and not only hearers, deceiving yourselves. If anyone is a hearer of the Logou and not a doer, this one is like a man perceiving the [his] congenital [natural] face in a mirror. He perceived for himself and has gone away and immediately forgot what sort of being he was. But he having looked into the perfect law of freedom and continuing in it (the same not being caused to be a forgetful hearer but a doer of work) the same will be makarios [supremely blessed] in his doing. If anyone in [among] you think himself to be pious, yet not bridling his tongue, he is deceiving his own heart. This one’s piety is empty. Clean piety and undefiled before Theos (and Father) is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the kosmou [universe, world, cosmos]. 

1^st Peter 3: Likewise, gunaikes [women, wives], subordinate yourselves to your own men [husbands] in order that (if any apeithousi [are willfully without faith in] the Logo) via the behavior of their gunaikon (without a logou), they will be gained for the Kingdom; having examined your in-fear, clean [pure] behavior. Of whom [You], not let it be the external, elaborate braiding of hair and a putting all around of gold or dressing of adorning apparel but let it be the concealed person of the heart (in the imperishability of the praeos [mild, humble] and sedate pneumatos [spirit]) which is very precious before the face of Theos. For at one time, this is how the hagiai gunaikes, elpizousai [putting expectation, putting hope] upon Theos, adorned themselves, subordinating themselves to their own men as Sarah attentively hearkened to Abraham (calling him kurion [lord, master]) of whom you were caused to be children; doing good and fearing no alarm.

 

1^st Peter 3.13: And who is he injuring you? If you are caused to be imitators of the good but if you also suffer via dikaiosunen, you makarioi. But don’t be frightened by fear of them nor be agitated.

 

ISAIAH 8.12: [YHWH] “The fear [dread] of this people don’t fear and don’t awe them.” 

[1^st Peter continues] But hagiasate [make holy] the Kuriou Theos in your hearts, being ever ready toward pleading your case (to everyone asking you) a logon concerning the elpidos [expectation, hope] in you, amidst prautetos and fear, having a good conscience in order that in that they slander you as kakopoleo [doer of worthlessness], they may be shamed down, those insulting your good behavior in the Christo [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ]. For it is stronger [better] to be a good doer if the thelema [determination, choice, decision, decree] of Theos thelo you to suffer, rather than to suffer for being a kakopoleo. Because the Christos once suffered concerning hamartion [missing of the mark or goal, error, offense, sin] (the dikaios suffering over [for] the unjust) in order that He might lead us forward to Theos, (in fact) being killed in the flesh but made alive in the Hagios Pneuma, in Whom [Holy Spirit] He was also traveling to the in-guarding [imprisoned] pneumasi [spirits] in Haides [Unseen, subterranean world of the dead, Hades]. He now ekeruschen [proclaimed, heralded] to the apeithesasi [willfully without faith] who once ejected the forbearance of Theos in the days of Noah. Father God having thoroughly prepared a box [ark] into which a puny number (that is eight psuchai) diesothesan [were made safe, were saved] via water. Corresponding to that, baptisma [immersion, submersion, baptism] now sozei [makes safe, saves] us; not of the flesh (the putting aside of filth) but an appeal to Theos for a good conscience via the anastaseos [deathlessness, immortality] of Jesus, the Christou (Who is in the right of Theos), having traversed into Ouranon [Heaven]; aggeloi [messengers, angels], authorities, and dunameon [powers] being subordinated to Him. 

Matthew 21.4: Now, the whole of this happened in order that might be fulfilled that spoken via the prophetou Zechariah, saying,

“Tell the daughter of Zion, LO! your King comes to you, praus [mild, humble] and mounted upon a donkey, even a foal, the son of a donkey.” 

ZECHARIAH 9.9: Vehemently rejoice! O daughter of Zion! Cheer! O Jerusalem! LO! your King is coming to you! He is wide open and serving YHWH; humble and riding upon a male donkey, upon the colt of a donkey, the son of a female donkey! 

1st Peter 3.15: But hagiasate [make holy] the Kuriou Theos in your hearts, being ever ready toward pleading your case to everyone asking you a logon concerning the elpidos in you, amidst prautetos and fear (having a good conscience) in order that in that they slander you as kakopoleo [doer of worthlessness], they may be shamed down (those insulting your good behavior in the Christo). 

End of One Hundred Thirteenth Lesson