' And, for tlioii waj?t a spirit too delicate To act her eartliy atid al)lu)rred commands, Refusing her grand hests, she did conilue thee.
Into a cloven pine.'
6. The foil, phrases are archaic or obsolete :
(1) For all, Ps 78»- ' For all tliis they sinned still' (n^)^'>;J) ; Jn 21" 'for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken ' (roaovTuiv Hvrav). Cf. Chaucer, Knightes Tale, 1162—
•The sowe freten the child ritrht in the cradel ; The cook y-scalded, for al iiis loiif,'e ladcl.'
(2) For because, Gn 22" ' I5y myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thins . . . that in blessing I will bless thee ' (\T. '? ■a^, RV ' because ') ; Jg 6- ' Alas, O Lord God ! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face ' (p-Sv-J, RV ' forasmuch as '). So Knox, Hist. 110, 'Let him be judged of you both foolisli, and your mortal] enemie : Foolish, for because he understood nothing of Gods approued wisdome ; and enemie unto you, because he laboiired to separate you from Gods favour ' ; and p. 159, ' One of the Bishops sons thrust thorow witli a Rapier one of Dundie, for because hee was looking in at tlie Girnel door' ; Barlowe, Dialogc, 76, ' W. Why do ye then despise the vniuersall churche, because some of them be noughte. N. Mary for because the more sorame of the cuyll, surmountethe the lesse number of the good.' (3) For tkfit = 'he- cause,' Ex 16'- « (a), •■» 'See, for that the Lord hath given you the SabWh, therefore he givetli you on the sixtli day the bread of two days {'a) ; i Es 7" (5ti), 1 Mac 4'^ {Kat, RV 'and'); Jn 12'», 2 Co 1" (RV 'tliat'), 1 Ti 1'^ (all 8tl) ; He 7"' (el, RV 'if') 6= (e'TTt/), 2Co 5* (TR irreLSi,, edd. ^0' v), llo5"(4(t>' v), Ja 4" ' For that ye ought to say ' (ovTi toO Xityeii/, RVm 'Instead of your saying'). RV sliows a fondness for tliis phrase, omitting it from AV only wliere marked aliove, and adding JgS"'*', Ezk 16°
2.3'» (Heb. ?); Nu 12"'>^ Neb 2'», Is 19» (Heb. lyst) ; Jn 2'^ (did. ri with inf.) ; 2 Th 2" (Sri). Cf Shaks. Mer. of Venire, I. iii. 43 —
' I hate him for ho is a Christian,
But more for that in low simplicity,
He lends out money ^jratis.'
(4) For to : The inlinitive of purpose used often to be strengthened hy for, an idiom that is still in use locally. Thus Gn 43*' Tind. (1530), 'Joseph made hast (for his hert dyd melt upon liis brotlier) and soughte for to wepo ' (changed in Matthew's Bible of 1537 into 'where'); Pr. Bk. 1549 (Keeling, p. 33), 'To be a li^lit for to lighten the Gentiles' (the 'for' is omitted in the 1552 ed. and afterwards); Fuller, Hohj Wnrre, 215, ' As for his good father, he was content to let go the stall' of his age for to be a prop to the Church.' Although in AV this ' for ' seems always to express purpose, it was formerly added to the inlin. even when no pur- pose was expressed, as Berners, Froissart, I. oxxvi., ' The king of England being at Airaines wist not where for to pass the river of Somme.' The 'for' is retained or omitted in AV at (he mere good pleasure of the translators. Moon (Krdes. English, 117) gives a curious list : Gn 31" ' for to go,' Ku 1'" 'to go' ; Is 41"^ ' for to come,' Jer 40' ' to come' ; Gn 41°' 'for to buy,' 42' 'to buy'; and so on through a list of lifteen couples. 'I'he RV for the most part leaves these inconsistencies alone ; hut it adcls some of it.s own. Thus in AV Ji'a is tr'' 'for to' in Mk 3'», Jn 10'» ll°^ Ac 17" 22», Eph 2", Rev 9" 12' ; RV changes all into 'that' with subj. except Ac 22°, which it leaves untouched. Again, in Mt 11' RV retains 'for to see,' 'out in the parallel passage, Lk 7-', omits the ' for,' though the Greek is the same.
6. ' For' as the tr" of ivrl, irepl, or virip (and it is the frequent rendering of each of these prejiositions) assumes considerable theological importance. The RV has been particularly careful and discrimin.it ing in this case. Beyond that, the English reiw^.^r must consult the exegetical commentaries, and such articles as Atonement, Propitiation.
J. Hastings.
FORAY occurs once in RV (2 S 3'^- ' from a foray,' AV ' from [pursuing] a troop'). The Heb. word nnj, which frequently means a marauding band (e.g. 1 S 30»- '»• ■^, 1 K 11-'), seems in this instance to bear the transferred but natural sense of an expedition of such a band.
FORBEAR, FORBEARANCE.— In the still com- mon meanings of abstain from, refrain, or desist, forbear is used in AV both absolutely and with an intin. following. Thus absolutely, 1 K 22° ' Shall I go against liamoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?' ; Zee 11'^ ' If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear' (both '?in, the usual word so tr'') ; 2 Co 12° (<pd5o/u.ai). Or with foil, infin., Pr '24" ' If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ' ( -litonn-Dx ; RV ' Deliver them that are carried away unto death, and those that are ready to he slain see that thou hold back,' taking dn as a particle expressing a wish, not as a conj. 'if; so Oxf. Heb. Lex. and most edd. ; RVm 'forbear thou not to deliver ') ; Ezk 24" ' Forbear to cry ' (ci pjN.i, lit. 'sigh, be silent'; RV 'Sigh, but not aloud'; Skinner, 'Sigh in silence': the (ieneva Bible gives ' Cease from sighing ' ; Bishops', ' Mourne in silence'; Douay, 'Sigh holding thy peace'; Segond, 'S<mpire en silence'; Siegfried, 'Seufze still ') ; 1 Co 9° ' Have not we power to forbear working?' ([roO] /i); ipydfeaBai.) ; Eph 6" 'forbearing threatening' (avUvn^ ryy dirf iXijv ; T. K. Abbott, ' giving up your threatening,' which they had been accustomed to use before they were Christians).