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NASB | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
Subject: THE CROSS |
Bible Note: Tim, This is my first posting in the StudyBibleForum, so pardon me for jumping into the midst of this string. I have read many of these postings and find the discussions extremely interesting. I wanted to comment on your statement, "unless the adjective 'all' is modified in some way, it means 'all'." I am not a Greek scholar by any means, however I do know that there are two ways that "all" is defined in the N.T. The Greek word is "pas", which can be understood to mean either individually or collectively (some of all types). Rarely in the N.T. is it used to mean individually, in most cases it carries the collective meaning. So to say that "All means all and that is all all means." Would not be an accurate statement. I have pasted the strongs definition below, and below that I have pasted a quote from C.H. Spurgeon regarding this issue. 3956 pas including all the forms of declension ; adj 1) individually 1a) each, every, any, all, the whole, everyone, all things, everything 2) collectively 2a) some of all types C.H. Spurgeon, from a sermon on Particular Redemption: ... "the whole world has gone after him" Did all the world go after Christ? "then went all Judea, and were baptized of him in Jordan." Was all Judea, or all Jerusalem, baptized in Jordan? "Ye are of God, little children", and the whole world lieth in the wicked one". Does the whole world there mean everybody? The words "world" and "all" are used in some seven or eight senses in Scripture, and it is very rarely the "all" means all persons, taken individually. The words are generally used to signify that Christ has redeemed some of all sorts: some Jews, some Gentiles, some rich, some poor, and has not restricted His redemption to either Jew or Gentile ..." In Christ....Doug |