2 Co II', Rev 21« 22", where the prominent thought is the grace (gratis) of the giver, as Mt lu» ' freely ye received, freely give.' And this ia no doubt the meaning in Ro 8^- and 1 Co 2" where xa/'ToM'" ia tr'' ' freely give.' Illustrations are Ex 21" Wye. ' sche schal go out freli without money ' (AV ' free,' RV ' for nothing ') ; Is 52' Cov. ' my people is frely caried awaye ' (EV 'for nought'); and Shaks. Winter's Tale, I. i. 19, ' You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.'
(3) Voluntarily, spontaneously, approaching the meaning of 'generous,' 'noble' given last for ' free ' : Ps 54' ' I will freely sacrihce unto thee ' (nj-ijj, RV 'with a freewUl offering,' aftar most commentators, but Cheyne prefers 'witli a free will ' both here and at Nu 15^) ; Hos 14' ' I will heal their backsliding, I wUl love them freely' (n;-ii, LXX oiioXiyw, Vulg. spontanee, 'VVyc. [1382] ' of my free will,' [l.'iSS] ' wilfuli ' ; Rog. ' wyth al my heart,' Gen. ' frely,' Dou. ' voluntarily, Cheyne ' spontaneou.sIy '). And this is the meaning of ' freely ' in Ezr 2*^ (RV ' willingly ') 7'°, where it is used to bring out the force of the Heb. verb. This is Milton's meaning (Pi viiL 443) where God ad- dresses Adam—
• My image, not imparted to the brute ; Whose fellowship therefore, unmeet for thee. Good reason was thou freely shouldst dislike.*
Freeman : 1 Es 3'» ( Afiiflepos) ; 1 Co 7^ ' the Lord's freeman ' {aire\e\Jdepos, RV ' freedman '), so as to bring out the spiritual emancipation and to dis- tinguish from the natural 'freeman' (i\ev6epoi) following. RV adds Col 3" [aevdepo!, AV ' free ').
Freeworaan : 1 Mac 2", Gal 4---'"- =», all iXfvdipa, of the natural condition, and directly opposed to 'bond-slave' (1 Mac) or 'bondmaid' (Gal). RV adds Gal 4". J. Hastings.
FREEWILL OFFERING.— See Sacrifice.
FREQUENT.— In the sense of crowded, well- attended, 'frequent' is common in writers of the 17th cent, and earlier, as a ' frequent assembly ' — Sanderson, Works, ii. 242, 258, a ' frequent college ' ; ' the College was sa frequent as the roumes war nocht able to receaue them ' — Melvill, Diary, 50. The sense in which the word occurs in AV is akin to this, but more exactly well-arnuaintecl, convers- ant : 2 C" /I''' ' in prisons more frequent,' exactly as Kno.<, Works, iv. 139, ' Be frequent in the pronb'^Js and in the epistillis of St. Paul.' The Gr. IS TrfpiaaoT^poi!, and RV follows Bish. and Rhem. 'more abundantly,' the other VSS having 'more plenteously.' Amer. RV and RVm give ' fre- quent' in 1 S 3' for 'open' of AV, 'the word of the Lord was precious in those days ; there was no open vision ' (p,Ej Jiiij px).
FRET. — To ' fret ' is primarily to eat up, con- sume {/or, intensive prefix, and etan to eat, like Ger. ver-esscn), as in Alisaunder of Macedoine (E.E.T.S.)i. 1159—
' Fayre handes and feete freaten too the bonne.'
But a very early meaning and very common is to eat into, gnaw, corrntte, as of a diseiuse, and the word lieing used in this sense by Tind. in Lv is'i-'-'m U", it was retained in AV. The uses in AV, then, are —
1. Transitively: 1. Literally to eat atcay, cor- rode, Lv 13"- »' 14" 'a fretting leprosy^ (n;ny n-;ND7), and 13" 'it is fret* inward' (nnn^). So
• It will be ob8er%ed that In Lv 13» ' it is fret inward,' /ret U the past ptcp. Cf. More. L'topia, i. (Luniby, p. 4»"., 1. u), ' For he (and that no mar\'eile) Iwynge so touched on the quicke, and hit on the gaule, so fret, bo fume<l, and chafed at it, and wx\» id such a rage that ho could not rcfraine himselfo from chidinge, skolding, raiUn£, and reviling.* Similar forma ai« ' lift' On 7" I,k 1U23 ; • « h.t ■ IS m-' I'r. Ilk.
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Fuller says of the death of Godfrey {Holy Warre, Bk ii. ch. 6, p. 51), ' It may be the plague took him out of the hands of that lingring disease, and quickly cut off what that had been long in fret- ting ' ; and Shaks. makes Lear in the bitterness of his soul say of his daughter (Joneril (Lear, L iv.
276)—
' If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may Uve And be a thwart disnatured torment to herl Let it stamp wrinkJes in her brow of youth ; With cadent tears (ret channels in her cheeks. The tr" of Ps 39" in the Great Bible of 1639 was ' When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sinne, thou makest his bewtye to consume awaye, like as it were a mothe.' In 1540 the explanatory phrase ' fretting a garment' was added, which being thereafter adopted into the text appears in the Pr. Bk. version. C(. Bacon, Admncen\£iit of Leaminy, n. 11. fi, ' As for the corruptions and moths of history, which are epitomes, the use of them desen'eth to be banished, as all men of sound Judgment have confessed, BS those that have fretted and cor- roded the sound bodies of many excellent histories, and wrought them into base and unprofitable dregs.'