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Article IX [XXXIX Articles, 1571), 'man is very farre gone from original 1 righteousnes.'
7. (Jo astray : both literally and figuratively, but always the tr° of a simple verb, mostly n;Ti •to err' (Ex 23*. Ps 58' 119"«, Pr 7-^, Is 53", Jer 5U» [Hiph. 'cause to go astray'], Ezk 14" 44"""'- " 48'""); also m} (Dt 22> 'Thou shalt not see thy brotlior's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide tliy- self from them,' O'rnj ' driven away,' i.e. parted forcibly from the herd througli some mishap — Driver); J3p (Ps 119" 'Before I was aHlicted I went astray ') ; njji (Pr 5^ and [Hiph.] 28'" ' cause to go astray '). In NT always xXofdo/uu (Mt 18'»- ", 1 P 2"', 2 P 2").
In On 63 RVm pives 'in their goinsj afltray they are flesh,' the text being ' for that he also is flesh.' Tlie difficulty is with the word C3V'^ [Baer C^tT?]- It has been taken as composed of ^'^ ( = 1^'tJ3] and D3 *alsa' So all the Versions, the Jewish inter- preters, and most modem expositors. Thus LXX S/i ro i,\a, ttlTM ffufi}ut(, Vuly. ' quia caro est,' Wye. ' for flehs he is,' Luth. • denn sie sind Fleisch, Tind. * for they are flesh,' Gov. ' for he is but flesh also' (the flret version to recognize the C3), Gen. ' because he is but flesh,' Bish., Dou. * because he is flesh,' Olt. ' car aussi ne sont-ils que chair,' Segond ' car I'honmie n'est que chair.' But y' is nowhere else found for l^'N in Gn, or even in the Pent., and the D3 'also* seems superfluous. Hence some modern scholars make the word an inf. of J3y', and translate somewhat as RVm. DiUmann and Kautzsch consider the word to be cornipt, and refuse to translate ; Ball suggests D;i;'3 (Lv 2639), and translates 'owing to their guilt they are flesh."
8. Go a war/are : 1 Co 9' ' Who goeth a warfare any time at his own char<res?' (Ws rrpaTeveTui, RV ' What soldier ever servetii at his own ch.-uses?'). Elsewhere tlie Gr. verb is tr'' 'war' (2 Co 10^ 1 Ti l'», 2 Ti 2^ Ja ^, 1 P 2"), as 1 P 2" ' abstain from lloshly lusts, wluch war against tlie soul ' ; except Ijk .'j'^, where the ptcp. (irTpaTdiSiicot) is tr'' ' soldiers.' For the Eng. phrase (wliich comes from Tind. ' Wlio goeth a warfare eny tvme at liis awne cost?') cf. Tindale's Proloqc to Leviticus, ' For the holy gost is no dome god nor no god tliat goetli a mumminge'; and Defoe, Cru.me (Gold. Treas. ed. p. 555), ' We then went to consulting togetlier what was to be done.'
9. Go aivay: (1) 'Pass away,' 'perish,' Job 4" ' Dotli not their excellency which is in tliem go away ? ' (j;?J, RV ' Is not their tent-cord plucked up within tliem ? ' for the word tr'' ' excellency ' means also a ' cord,' and the verb means first of all ' to pull up' a tent-peg or cord, though it thence is extended to the meaning ' break up an encamp- ment,' 'go away.' Davidson translates the wliole verse — ' If their tent-cord is torn away in them, do they not die, and not in wisdom?' and remarks {Expos. III. iv. 279 f.), ' The striking of the tent is a grapliic and not uncommon image for tlie re- moval which comes in death ') ; Jer 6^ ' Woe unto us ! for the day goeth away, for tlie shadows of the evening are stretched out '(nj", RV 'declineth'). (2) 'Turn aside from,' 'desert,' Ezk 44'" 'And the Levites that are gone away far from me, wlien Israel went astray . . . they shall even bear their iniquity' ('pqT ir.^, RV 'that went far from me') ; Maj 3' ' Even from the days of your fatliers ye are gone away from mine ordinances ' (cn-ip, RV 'ye have turned aside') ; Jn 6" 'Then Jesus said unto the twelve, Will ye also go away ? ' (/ij; Kal ifius deXcTc iixd^fiv), 12'' ' many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus' (utt^oc). (3) ' Escape,' I S 24" ' For if a man find his enemy, wQl lie let him go well away' (^?ib Ti-n^ inj-pi, lit. 'will he send him along a prosperous way?').
10. Go a whorinf) : This strong expression, which comes from "Tindale (Wye. has 'do fomica- cioun '), is used to tr. the Heb. verb nj; ziiniih, ' to commit fornication,' when followed by '^nx 'after' (Ex 34 '»■'«, Lv 17' 2(fi-', Nu 15*", Dt 3i'«, Jg 2" B"-« 1 Ch5^, Ezk 6» 23*', and once in Ex 34'«,
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wliere the vb. is Hipliil, 'make thy sons go a whor- ing after tlieir gods ) ; also when zdndh is followed by p 'from' (Ps 73-'' 'Thou liast destroyed all tliem that go a whoring from thee'), ? 'with' (Ps lOU*' 'went a whoring with their own inven- tions '), nni3D ' from under ' (Hos 4'-), Mnd '?];□ ' from ' (Ho3 9'). It is used once without a prep, follow- ing, 2 Ch 21" 'And hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a wliuring' (njjni). The Heb. phrase is ahvays a figure of speech, and expresses ' the disloyal ahaiuloiimont. of J" for other gods' — Driver. It suggests, adds Moore, both tne sin of unfaithfulness and the sin of prostitution, the giving up of oneself, body and soul, to other gods. But wliether it was a figure ahvaj's, it is hard to say. In view of the fact that actual pro.stitution was not an uncommon feature in ancient Semitic cults. Driver thinks the original sense not improbably literal. It depends upon the d.ate of the origin of the expression. RIoore believes that it originated with Hosea, ' whose own bitter experience with his .adulterous wife became for him tlie type of the relations of J" and Israel.' Modern translators try to soften the exinession : thus Cheyne in Ps 73-'' ' every one that wantonly deserts thee.' RV retains, but Amer. RV prefers ' play the harlot.'