2. Material and moral blessing, benefit: Ps 119'^ ' Be surety for thy ser^-ant fur good ' ; Ec 5" ' What good is there to the owners thereof ? ' Ad. Est 15" ' Who saved our life and continually procured our good ' ; Wis 5' ' WTiat good hath nclies with our vaunting brought us?' Sir 2» 'Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good' ; 2 Mac 11" 'Then Maccabeus consented to all that Lysias desired, being carclol of the common good' (toO av^Kptpom-ot ippofTL^oit) ; Ro 15- ' Let every one of us ple.ase his neiglitjour for his good to edification ' (ItV ' for that wliich is good'). Cf. Shaks. As You Like It, li. i. 17 —
•And this our life, exemnt from public haunt, Finds ton[,nie9 in trees, nooks in the ninninp brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.'
In this sense we find ' good things ' in Sir 39" ' For the good are good things created.' And the phrase 'to come of good' occurs 2 Mac 14** ' Per- ceiving that such sour behaviour came not of good, he gathered together not a few of his men, and withdrew himself from Nicanor' (dxA roD /JeX- tiVtoi). Cf. Shaks. Henry V. IV. viii. 4 — 'Captain,
1 beseech j-ou now, come apace to the king ; there is more good toward you, peradventure, than is in your knowledge to dream of.'
3. Moral or spiritual good, goodness : Gn 2* ' the tree of [RV adds ' the ] knowledge of cood and evil'; Ps 14'- "' There is none that doetii good'; Is 7"' " ' to refuse the e^'il, and choose the good ' :
2 Es 2" ' I have broken the evil in pieces, and created the good ' ; Sir 33" ' Good is set against evil, and life against death'; Ro 3' 'Let us do evil, that good may come ' ; He 5" ' those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.' In this sense 'the good' .some- times is plu., 'good persons,' as Pr 14" 'The evil bow before the good' [a-yia) ; sometimes, however, sing., as Sir 12' ' Give unto the good (r^j iyaOi}), and help not the sinner.'
These different meanings of 'good "are all illustrated in the history of the interpretation of P» IS'. The Mass. lleh. is 'nya ^'^4^3 ; its translations may be ranged in three classes accord- ing M 3^s ' good ' is understood.
1. (yotnlt : LXX iri T^* cLyaHif fu*i tit ^^'«« r>;uc [B omitS whole clause] ; Arab. ' And Indeed thou needcst not my goods ■ : Vulg. • Quoniam bononira meorum non eges ' ; Wvc llSio) 'For ot my goodis tliou nedist not'; [131SI) 'For thou hast no need of my goodis ' ; Cov. ' My goodes are nothinge unto the,' followed by Rog., Cran., Bish. ; Dou- ' Because thou needest not my good.H,* with marg. note, 'Christ's passion was not needful nor profltatile to <lod but to man ' ; Burgess, ' My goods are at thy dispoeol" (reading Tn''l'3
• lorded over [owned] by thee ' for -('SvSd ' not over thee").
'i 6'ood ; Syr. ' My good is from thee* ; Symm. •>.«*<• imv •■:■ irrir atrtti rw \ Jerome, ' Bene mihi non est sine le ' ; U. Kuiichi,
* My good Is not (obligatory) upon thee' ; Ewald. 'Thou on my highest gowl 1 ' ; J. A. Alexander, ' My happiness is not inde- pendent of thee* ; Del. * Besides thee inere is for nie no weal ' ; I'erowne, ' 1 have no good beyond thee,* who is followed fi> KV, Jennings, and Kirkpatrick ; Kay, ' My prosperity has no ilajnia on thee* : Thrupp, 'My happiness! there is naught in com* parisonof thee*; Cheyne, ' W ithout thee my welfare is naught'; or (Parchment ed.) 'Welfare have 1 none without thi-e * ; lie Witt, ' I have naught that is good bealde thee * ; Si-gond, ' Tu es mon souveniin i>i'-n!* Kautck-h, * ^J giebt fur niich kein Out ausserdirl ' Wildci-oer (in Ffftttmiulft aan Vrof. M. J. lif iit^jf, Leiden, 181)1 ; see Cheyne in Krpog. Ttmf$, III. liM.and In h'xjftt. III. Ser. v. 7s), 'Tliou art tlie good of [the i>eople which Ihy prophet cAlled) thy wedded one ' (rtajling ''i^t'VS) ; but later (in TItrtU. TijJxhr\ft, Nov. 1803 : see Taylor ln'i'x7>M. Timej, v. 384), 'Thou art my I^rd, the treasure of her whom thou hast married ' (reading !;r^U*3) ; King, ' My good, beyond which there Is none.*
3. liiKxIn^tr : Ai). myMBtrri'^ nm •v m^ 1*J ^ '. Gen. (after Calvin), ' My welldoing exlendeth not lothee'(with man: note, 'Tiiogh »ve can not enrirhe Cod, yet we nuist Ustovve (W^l'i gifts to the us*' of bis children ') ; J. Klnu-bi, ' The g.-<^<l whi--h I am doing does not extend so far as thee' ; AV, ' My g«->CMlm-4 fjt^tuUth not to I bee ' ; OsL ' Le hien que Je fais ne ru'nt i».Mnl Jusqu' k tol';Sharpe (p. 8), 'My gocxlness: nothing lK>«lds thee' [la good], but (p. lAlX ' Adonai art thou, O my goodness
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GOOD, CHIEF
GOODLY, GOODLINESS
there Ib nothing beside thee to the holy who »re In the lond ' (p. SS7, ' to the saintB who are in the earth ').