He is the LOGOS, the impetus for Creation (John 1:1ff.) and the express image of God, through whom the Church accesses the glory of God (2 Cor 4:4ff., Col 1:15f., Heb 1:3). Christ was already glorified, but humbled himself in mere mortal flesh (Phil 2:6ff., Heb 2:9). (Moving on to my own search of Scripture) the Apostle Paul relates glory to the Last Adam, Jesus Christ (1 Cor 15:45). New Testament authors adopted the Septuagint concept but applied DOXA also to “men or earthly powers” (Mt 4:8, 6:29, Lk 4:6, 1 Pet 1:24) to “angels and other heavenly beings” (Lk 2:9, 9:31, Acts 22:11, Jude 8, 2 Pet 2:10, Rev 18:1) and to celestial bodies (1 Cor 15:40f.). I note that the ancient Greeks did have a concept of personal glory: in Homer’s Iliad, in spite of repeated admonitions to stay in formation, warriors kept breaking off into individual combat in order to defeat and strip an enemy of his armor and weapons as trophies. The Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament) adopted the word DOXA (DOCK-sa) for KABOD to express glory as “a quality belonging to God.” In secular Greek, DOXA did not carry this particular connotation, but a range of meanings from “opinion” and “conjecture” to “repute” and “praise.” Its verb form, DOXAZO (dock-SODD-zo), can mean “think, imagine, suppose, magnify, praise, extol.” When the Philistines captured the Ark (1 Sam 4), Eli’s daughter-in-law named her newborn child Ichabod, “where is the glory?” The Hebrew for “glory” is KABOD (or CHABOD) which “does not mean God in his essential nature, but the luminous manifestation of his person, his glorious revelation of himself,” often to be equated with the SHEKINAH of the actual presence of God. It is 4 volumes, the fourth of which is all indexes: by English word, by Greek word, and by Scripture reference.
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Allow me share some insights I garnered for a message on the glory of God, which you are free to use if you feel so led.įirst, I consulted my favorite word study source, which to my knowledge is the best, The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, usually referred to by the name of its editor, Colin Brown.
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