Lesson 115 Amplified -- ECHTHROS

 ECHTHROS

American: hateful or a hater, an enemy

Hebrew Aramaic: owyeb --a hater, an enemy

Chaldee: sane or sene -- to hate

Chaldee: taab -- to loathe 

ECHTHRA

American: hostility 

MISEO

American: to detest 

STUGETOI

American: hateful 

Here we have four Koine Greek words, two Chaldee words and a Hebrew Aramaic word that are all in the realm of hatred. Taken altogether, these words appear nearly one hundred twenty times in Almost Greek, including interspersed references to the Old Testament. We are enjoined to agape our brethren in the Kingdom of Theos. Hatred is a characteristic of the domain of the devil and those whom he has seduced. 

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

1st Corinthians 15.20: But now the Christos has been awakened from dead. He was caused to be a beginning of sacrifice [the “first fruits”] of those having been put to sleep; for since death is via a man [Adam] and via a Man [Jesus] anastasis [a standing up again, resurrection] of the dead. For as in Adam the whole human race dies, so also in the Christo [Anointed One, Messiah, Christ], all will be made alive; but each in his own order [turn]. First the beginning of the sacrifice (the Christos), then comes the telos [point aimed at, end of this age], when He surrenders the kingdom to Theos (also the Father); when He [Jesus] katargese [renders entirely idle; useless] all commencement [rank], all privilege [authority] and all dunamin [force, power]. It is right for Him to reign until He [Father] wishes to place all the [His] echthrous under His [Jesus’] feet. The last echthros one katargeitai [rendered entirely idle; useless] is Death, for He [Father] subordinated all under His [Jesus’] feet. 

Psalm 14.1: “They acted corruptly. They did taab [hatefully] perform; none doing good. YHWH looked down (from aloft) upon the sons of Adam to see if there existed any seeking Elohiym.

 

Psalm 53.1: “They acted corruptly. They did taab [hateful] perversity. None is doing good. Elohiym looked down upon the sons of Adam (from aloft) to see if there existed any seeking Elohiym. 

Colossians 1:15: Jesus, Who is the eikon [image, likeness, statue, icon] of the invisible Theos, the firstborn of all creation because in Him all was created: the things in the ouranois [skys, heavens] and the things upon the earth; the seen [visible] and the invisible, whether thrones or lordships or rank or authorities. All has been created via Him and to Him and He IS before the birth of the whole of creation and all is presented in Him. Also, He is the Head of the somatos [body], the ekklesias [assembly, church]. He, Who is the beginning, firstborn emergent from dead in order that He may be caused to be in first place in all because in Him all repletion [completion] was approved to dwell and via Him to completely reconcile all to Himself [Father], making peace via the blood of His stake [cross] via Him; whether the things upon the earth or the things in the ouranois. You were then being estranged [alienated] and echthrous [haters, enemies] in nous [intellect, mind, understanding], in ponerois [hurtful] works. Yet just now, He completely reconciled in the Somati of His flesh, via His death, to stand beside [present] you hagious [holy, sacred, consecrated] and unblemished and unaccused before Him [Father] if indeed you remain in the pistei [faith, reliance], having been founded and immovable and not being moved away from the elpidos [expectation, hope] of the euaggelion [good news, gospel, evangel] which you hear keruchthentos [proclaimed, heralded] in all creation under Ouranon [Heaven], of which I (Paul) was caused to be a servant. 

Philippians 3.17: Brothers! be fellow imitators of me and observe those walking thus, just as you have a tupon [a die set, a shaper, a model, a type] in me. For there are walking all around those of whom I often told you and now tell you (even weeping), the echthrous [haters] of the stake of the Christou whose end is destruction; whose belly is their theos [god] and who glory in their shame; who think on the earthly. For our citizenship is in Ouranois [Heavens]. Emergent from there, we also fully expect a Sotera [Deliverer, Savior] the Kuriou Jesus, the Christou, Who will transfigure [transform] our soma of humiliation into it being caused to be conformed [similar] to the somati of His glory down to the energeian [activity, efficiency] of His capability, even to subordinate everything to Himself. 

Luke 6.27: [Jesus speaking] “Accordingly, to you (those hearing) I say, ‘Agapate [unconditionally love] your echthrous. Do well to those detesting you. Eulogeite [fine speak, commend, bless, praise] those cursing you and proseuchesthe [humbly beg of God; pray] over those insulting [slandering] you. To those thumping you on the left jaw, also present the other side. And those taking from you your outer garment, also not deny them your shirt. Now, to all asking of you, give and from those taking away yours, don’t demand them back. And just as you wish men to do to you, you also do similarly to them. And if you agapete those agapontas you, what sort of charis [graciousness] is due to you? for hamartoloi [missers of the mark or goal, erring, offenders, sinners] also agapontas them. And if you do well to those doing well to you, what sort of charis is due to you? for hamartoloi do the same. And if you loan near [to] whom you elpizete [expect, hope] to receive back in full, what sort of charis is due to you? for hamartoloi also lend to hamartoloi in order that they may receive similar in full. Rather agapete your echthrous and do well and lend, fully expecting not even one cent in return and many wages will be accruing to you and you will be sons of the Highest because He is chrestos [useful] to the ungrateful and the ponerous [hurtful]. Accordingly, be caused to be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate. Not krinete [distinguish, judge, put on trial] and you won’t at all be krithete. Not katadiazete [condemn] and you won’t at all be katadiskasthete. Fully free and you will be fully freed. Give and it will be given to you, kalon [beautiful, virtuous] measure (shaken and tamped and piled over the top) shall they give into your bosom for in the same measure by which you measure out will gifts be meted out to you.’” 

Luke 10.17: Now, the seventy returned amidst joy, saying, “Kurie! even the daimonion [demonic beings, demons] submitted to us in Your name [authority].”But He [Jesus] said to them, “I was a spectator of Satanan descending from the Ouranou [Heaven] in the manner of lightning. LO! I have given to you the privilege [authority] to trample on snakes and scorpions and upon all the dunamin [force, power] of the echthrou [hateful one] and not even one thing (in no way) shall harm you but not rejoice in this (that the pneumata [winds, breaths, spirits] submit to you) but rather that your names are written in the Ouranois [Heavens].” 

Psalm 110.1: A Psalm of David: A statement of YHWH to my Adonay: “Sit down (as Judge) at My right until I place Your owyeb a stool for Your foot.”

 

Luke 19.41: And as He [Jesus] drew near, seeing the city, He wept aloud over it, saying,

“If you knew (even you), even at least in this your day, the things toward your shalom [safety, peace, health, happiness, prosperity, friendship]! but now they have been hidden from your eyes because days shall come upon you and your echthroi will erect palisades about you and will encircle you and will hem you in on all sides and will raze you (and your children in you) and won’t leave in you stone upon stone because you not knew the time set for your inspection.” 

James 4: From where, in you, come warfare and battles? Isn’t it from here, emergent from your lusts warring in your members? You long for but haven’t. You murder and zeloute [have heat] and aren’t able to attain. You war and you battle, and you don’t have, because you don’t ask God. You ask and not receive because you ask kakos [worthlessly] in order that you may spend on your lusts. Moichoi [adulterers] and moichalides [adulteresses]! don’t you know that the friendship of [with] the kosmou [universe, world, cosmos] is echthra [hostility] of Theos? Then, whoever boulethe [wills, resolves, intends] to be a friend of the kosmou, is shown to be an echthros of Theos. Or do you think that the Graphe [Scripture, part of Old Testament] vainly asks, “Yearns the Hagios Pneuma (Who has dwelt in us) to ill will?” But He gives greater charin; therefore, it says, “Theos opposes the proud, but He gives charin to the humiliated.” 

PSALM 138.6: “... though YHWH is exalted, yet He sees the depressed, but He knows the proud at a distance.”

 

PROVERBS 3.34: [YHWH] “If He scoffs at the scoffers, yet He gives chen [charis] to the depressed.”

 

Hebrews 1.8: But as to the Son, He says, “Your throne, O Theos! is to the ages of the ages [forever]. The rod [scepter] of Your rectitude is the rod of Your kingdom. You egapesas dikaiosunen [equity, justification, rightness] and emisesas lawlessness; therefore, Theos (Your Theos) anointed You with oil of gladness above Your fellows.

 

Ephesians 5.28: Men ought so to agapan their gunaikas [women, wives] as their own somata [bodies]. The one agapon his gunaika agapa himself. For not even one man emisesen his own flesh but he nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Kurios also nourishes and cherishes the ekklesian [assembly, church] because we are members of His somatos (of His flesh and His bones). For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall adhere [bond] to his gunaika and the two shall be (as flesh) one! 

Matthew 24.3: Now, He sitting down upon the Mount of Olives, we mathetai [learners, pupils, disciples] approached Him down to Himself, saying, “Tell us at what time these events will be and what will be the semeion [sign, indication] of Your being near and of the entire completion of the age?” And responding, Jesus said to us, “Watch out that not any of you causes anyone to go astray. For many will come upon My name, saying, ‘I AM the Christos.’ And many will cause others to go astray. But you are about to hear of warfare and rumors of warfare. Don’t be upset! For it is necessary for all of this to be (caused to be); conversely, it not yet is the telos [the point aimed at, the end of this age]. For ethnos [nation, race, non-Jew, gentile] will be roused upon [against] ethnos and kingdom upon kingdom and there will be famine and plagues and commotion [gales and earthquakes] down in various places but all these occurrences are merely the beginning pangs [birth contractions]. Then is when they will surrender you to torture and will kill you and you will be misoumenoi [detested] by all the ethnon via My name. And then is when many skandalisthesontai [will be tripped, will be entrapped, will be scandalized] and paradosousi [will surrender] one another and they misesousin [will detest] one another. And many pseudoprophetai [false prophets] will be aroused and will cause many to go astray. And via abounding lawlessness, the agape of many will chill but the person enduring to the telos, the same sothesetai [will be made safe, will be saved]. And this euaggelion of the Kingdom keruchthesetai [will be proclaimed, will be heralded] in the whole of the earth to evidence to all the ethnesi and then is when the telos will arrive.” 

John 3.16: [Jesus speaking] “For Theos so greatly egapesen [unconditionally loved] the kosmon (so also), He even gave His only begotten Son in order that anyone pisteuon [putting their faith, reliance] into Him shouldn’t perish but should have eternal life. For Theos didn’t send His Son into the kosmon in order that He might krine [distinguish, judge, to put on trial] the kosmon; conversely, He sent Him in order that the kosmos sothe [might be saved] via Him. One pisteuon into Him not krinetan [is distinguished, is judged, is put on trial] but he not pisteuon into Him already kekritai [has been distinguished, has been judged, has been put on trial] because he not pepisteuken [has had reliance, has had faith] into the name [authority] of the only begotten Son of Theos. And the krisis [decision, judgment rendered, verdict] is this: That the Light has come into the kosmon and the people egapesan shadiness more than the Light for their deeds were ponera [hurtful]. For everyone practicing phaula [foulness, wickedness] misei [detests] the Light and doesn’t come toward the Light in order that his deeds may not be exposed but he who practices truth comes to the Light in order that it may be revealed that his deeds have been done in Theos.” 

John 7.6: [Jesus speaking to his half-brothers] “My time isn’t yet here but your time is always ready. The kosmos cannot be expected to mesein you but it does misei Me because I testify (concerning it) that its works are ponera [hurtful]. You go up to this feast! I AM not yet going to this feast because My time hasn't yet been made replete.” 

John 15.7: [Jesus speaking] If you remain in Me and My rhemata [utterance] remains in you, you will ask whatever you thelete [choose, decide] and it shall be caused to be to you. In this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and that you will be mathetai to Me. Just as the Father egapese Me, I also egapesa you. You remain in My agape if you keep My commands, just as I have kept My Father’s commands and remain in His agape. I have spoken these words to you in order that My joy remain in you and that your joy may be totally filled up. This is My command: that you agapate one another just as I egapesa [have unconditionally loved] you. Not even one man has greater agapen than this: that anyone lay down his psuchen [soul, life, psyche, ego] for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. I no longer call you slaves for the slave not knows what his kurios does, but I called you friends because I made known to you all which I heard from My Father. You haven't selected Me, but I selected you and planted you in order that you should go and should bear much fruit; that your fruit should remain and that whatever you ask Father in My name [authority], He may give this to you. These words I command you: that you agapate one another. If the kosmos mesei you, you know that before [first] it memiseken [has detested] Me. If you were emergent from the kosmou, the kosmos philei [would have loved] you as its own but because you aren't emergent from the kosmou (but I selected you emergent from the kosmou), therefore the kosmos misei you. Remember the logou [word] which I said to you: ‘A slave isn’t greater than his kuriou.’ If they pursued [persecuted] Me, they also will pursue you. If they kept My logon, they also will keep yours. But all these persecutions they will do to you because of MY NAME [authority] for they don't know the One sending Me. Unless [If] I not came and not had spoken to them, they wouldn't hamartian [have had sin] but now, they have no excuse concerning their hamartias. The one mison [detesting] Me also misei [detests] My Father. If I not did in [among] them the works which not even one man did, they not hamartian [would be sinning] but now, they both have seen and memisekasi [have detested] both Me and My Father. They have done this in order that the logos may be fulfilled that has been written in their Law: ‘Emisesan [They detested] Me for not even one reason.’” 

PSALM 35.19 Those sane [hating] Me without cause ….

 

Titus 3: Quietly remind them to subordinate themselves to chiefs and authorities (to submit to authority), to be ready toward all good work (vilifying not even one person), to be amachous [without-fighting, peaceable], all appropriate [moderate], showing gentleness toward all men. For we were also once without understanding, unpersuadable, caused to stray, slaving for lusts and motley sensual pleasures, passing time in kakia [worthlessness] and ill-will; stugetoi [hateful]; misountes [hating] one another. But chrestotes [usefulness] and philanthropia [love of mankind] shone forth from Abba Theos, our Soteros, not emergent from works of dikaiosune which we had done but down to his compassion, He esosen [made safe, saved] us via bathing of spiritual rebirth and renovation of the Hagios Pneuma, Whom He copiously poured forth upon us via Jesus, the Christou (our Soteros) in order that dikaiothentes [being justified] by that charity [graciousness], we might be caused to be heirs down to the elpida [expectation, hope] of eternal life. 

End of One Hundred Fifteenth Lesson