J. Laidlaw.
INORDINATE. — ' Inordinate love' is the clumsy tr" in Ezk '23" of ^jyj^, a word which occurs only there, and means 'lust' (UV 'doting'); and 'in- ordinate allection ' in Col 3° of Tdtfos ( RV ' ims^ion '). The former tr» comes from Cov. (Wye. 'lecherie') and the latter from the Bishops' Bible (Wye. 'leccherie,' Tind. 'unnatural lust,' Gen. ' wan- tounes,' Uhem. ' lust'). Inordinate is Ul-regulated, unguvemed, as Bacon, Essays, 'Of Love' (Gold. Trea-s. ed. p. 30), ' the former was indeed a voluptu- ous Man and Inordinate, but the latter was an Austere and wise man ' ; and Shaks. Othello, II. iii. 311 — 'Every inordinate cup is unble-ssed, and the ingreilient is a devil.' Wye. uses the adv. in 2Th 3*' withdrawe you fro ech brother wandrynge nnordynatly' ; and "Latimer, Sermons (.Vrber's cii. p. '.19), ' I heare save ye walke inordiiintelyi', ye talke unsemelye otner wayes then it becoiiimeth Christian subjectes.' J. Hastings.
INQUISITION.— To make inquisition is to make investigatiim, to search, Dt 19'», Est 2-=, Ps 9", 2 Es G", Wis I» 6» (RV), Sir 23". In Sir 41* the phrase is ' There is no inquisition in the grave ' [oOk l(TTtii ill glSou iXeytiis fw^!, RV 'There is no inquisi- tion of life in the grave,' RVm 'in Hades'), that is, no inquiry is made there how long or short a man's life has been. Coverdalo uses the word in Job IC 'Are thy dayes as the daves of man, and thy yeares as mans yeares ? tliat tliou makest soch inquisicion for my wickednesse, and searchest out my sj-nne ? ' and 35" ' Then useth he no violence in his wrath nether hath he pleasure in curious and depe inquisicions.' And I'uUer (Uolij Warre, iii. 23, p. 15u), in memory of Ps 'J'-, says, 'But no doubt God, when he maketh inquisition for blond, will one day remember this bloudy Inquisition.'
J. UA.STINGS.
INSECTS.— See Natural History.
INSPIRE, INSPIRATION. — To 'inspire' m literally to ' breathe into,' * and that is the meaning of the word in its single occurrence in AV, Wis 15" 'Forasmuch as Tie knew not his Maker, and liim that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed in a living spirit' {t6v iinrveO- (Tat^a aOrt^ \I/vxriv ivipyouaav, kolI ifitpv<nj<Tat^a weufia fwri/tii") ; Vulg. ' qui inspiravit illi animam quae operatur, et qui insufflavit ei spiritum vitalera.' Wye. has ' enspirede ' here, but in other places he uses the simple ' spire ' = breathe, as Gn 2' ' The Lord God thanne fourmede man of the slyme of the erthe, and spiride in to the face of hym an entre [ = entrancei of breth of lijf ' (1388 ' urethide'). All the other versions have in the
Eassage just (juoted from Wye. ' breathed the reath,' and it is probably in memory of the Vulg. ' insjjiravit in faciem ejus spiraculum vitiB ' that Bacon (Essai/s, 'Of Truth,' p. 3) has 'First he breathed Light upon the Face of the Matter or Chaos ; then he breathed Light into the Face of Man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth Light into the Face of bis Chosen ' ; and Milton, PL X. 785—
' Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die ; Lest that pure breath of life, the spirit of Man \Vhtch God inspired, cannot together periah With this corporeal clod.'
Cf. also Judgement of the Synode at Dart, p. 40, ' So then faith is the gift of God ; not in that it ii profered by God unto man's free-will, but because It is really bestowed, inspired, and infused into man.' Then the word passes into the meaning of ' till with the spirit,' which we see in Knox, If'orks, iii. 99, ' Happio is the man whome thow sail in- spyre, 0 Lord ' ; and in Tindale's tr° of Mk 12" ' for DaWd him selfe inspyred with the holy goost, savde.'
Inspiration occurs twice in AV : (1) Job 32* ' But there is a spirit in man : and the inspiration of the Almightv giveth them uiulorstamling ' ; Heb. '*F r\~i') : ^'ulg- ' Inspiratio (>mni|H>tentis ' ; Wye. i.'?82 ' the inbrething of the .-ilmyghti,' 13SS ' the cnspiryng ether revelneioun of Alinyghti God ' ; so Cov. has ' inspiration,' and is folfowed by all the versions excejit HV 'the breath of the Almighty,' which agrees with L.\X Trofi, and with AV in 3.'!' for the same Heb. ' The .Spirit of God hath made mo, and the breath of the .Vlmighty hath given nic life.' The reference is to (jn 2'. (2) 2 'fi 3" ' All scripture is given by inspiration
* The Utaiml meaaing i> wall wtta In Spannr, Ft) a
IU.30—
• 1\VT VoUoWr 1- ■'• - - • ' '■'•- — ' f 1 Wyre,
Al«nil litT r.: 1
And, when '. : iiifiivr»
Thov wa»c<l ii^!- 1» i"iM'ii «.>ii.- ii..|.i. .1,
And low tichlnde bsr backe were ■Cfttl«r«d.'
476
INSTANT
INTEND, INTENT
of God, and is profitable for doctrine'; Gr. Traja ypaipi) BeiTTvei'aTo! Kai w^Ai/ios ; KV ' Every Scrip- ture inspired of God is also profitable.' For the doctrine of tlie Inspiration or the Bible see under art. Bible, vol. i. p. 296. For tliis passage, reference may be made (besides the commentaries) to Perowne in Expos. Times, ii. 54 ; WarlieUl in Prc^. Quarter/ 1/, July, 1889, pp. 389-406 (with Old and New Test. Student, Oct. 1889, ix. 245) ; Itow, BL 454 ; Drummond, Hib. Led. 11 f. ; and Cremer, s.v. OfiTTfevaroi. The construction of the sentence in RV is the oldest Eng. construction : thus Wye. 'al scripture onspircd of god, is prolitable,' Tind. ' al scripture geven by inspiracion of gud, is pro- fittable,' so Coverdale and the Great Bible. The Gen. Bible is the first to offer ' the whole Scripture is geven by spiration of God, and is profitable.' Tindale elsewhere uses the word in the same sense of a person, as Lk 2-'' ' And he [Simeon] came by inspiracion in to the temple.' J. HASTINGS.