‘But soone the knights with their bright-burning blades, Broke their rude troupes, and orders did confound.’
ἃ, Prescribed custom, 1 Ch 683 1518 ‘we sought him not after the due order,’ 23%, 2 Ch 8:4 ‘He appointed, according to the orderof David his father, the courses of the priests to their service’ (Heb. always mishpat); 1 Es 1° ‘Offer the passover in order’ (ἐν τάξει). Cf. Rogers’ note on Ly 7° ‘ Tres- pace after the order of the scrypture sipuityess somtyme all the lyffe past which we have lyved in infidelyte.’ The modern meaning of ‘command’ easily arose out of this. It is not found in AV, but the following passages appirech it, 1 Es 8” ‘T have given order, that such of the nation of the Jews . .. as are willing and desirous, should go with thee’ (προσέταξα); 1 Mac 9% ‘He could no more speak anything nor give order concerning his house’ (ἐντείλασθαι); 1 Co 164 ‘As I have given order to the churches of Galatia’ (ὥσπερ diérata, RV ‘as I gave order’).
The verb ‘to order’ is ulways used in the obso- lete sense of ee properly, arrange, or direct. Thus Ly 944 ‘He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick’; Jer 46° ‘Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle’; Job 234 ‘I would order my cause before him’; Ps 119!* ‘Order my steps in thy word’; Jg 6% ‘Build an altar. . . in the ordered place’; 1313 ‘ How shall we order the child?’; Jth 915 ‘He ranged them, as a great army is ordered for the war’; Wis 8! ‘Sweetly doth she [wisdom] order all things’ (διοικεῖ, Vulg. disponit) ; 98 ‘That he should. . . order the world according to equity’ (διέπῃ, Vulg. disponat) ; 12" 15', Sir 2° ‘Order thy way aright.’ Ch Ps 40° Pr, Bk., and other passages (given in Driver’s Par. Psalter, p. 478); also Fuller, Holy Warre, 185, ‘The Christians were ordering themselves in aray’; More, Utopia, ii. 7 (Robinson’s tr.), ‘They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature’; and Shaks. Rich. JI. τι. ii. 109—
“If I know how or which way to order these affairs, Thus thrust disorderly into my hands, Never believe me.’
Orderly, which is properly an adj., is used as an adv. in Ac 21* ‘thou thyself also walkest orderly.’ Cf. Jer 324 Coy. ‘it was orderly sealed’ ; | Golding, Calvin’s Job, 571, ‘ We know that in God’s
Church all things ought to be handled orderly and
comely, as Saint Paule sayth’; and Pr. Bk. ‘The
New Testament ... shall be read over orderly
every year thrice.’ RV introduces the word as an J. HASTINGS.
| adj. into Jg 6%, 1 Ti 3?
ORDAIN, ORDINANCE
ORDINATION 631
ORDAIN, ORDINANCE.—There are eleven Heb. or Aram. words translated ‘ordain’ in the OT of AV, and in the Apocr. and NT no fewer than twenty- one Greek words®* are so translated. When we add three Lat. words found in 2 Es we see that the Eng. verb had a wide range of meaning. Its meanings may, notwithstanding, be gathered under four heads. 4. 70 put in its proper place (the deriv. of the word is ordo, ordinis=‘ order’), make ready for any purpose. Thus Lk 1416 Tind. ‘A certayne man ordened a greate supper, and bade many’ ; Ac 648 Wye. ‘Thei ordeyneden false witnessis’; He 10° Tind. ‘A bodie hast thou ordeyned me’; Berners, Froissart, 18, ‘There was ordained three great battles (=divisions) afoot’ ; and Shaks. Rom. and Jul. tv. v. 84—
* All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral.’ In AV this meaning is found in Ps 7% ‘He or- daineth his arrows against the persecutors,’ 132", 1Ch 17%, Is 30%, Tiab 14, He 95. 2. To bring into existence, establish, as Dt 825 Tind. ‘Is not he thy father and thyne owner? hath he not made the and ordeyned the?’; Mk 7 Tind. ‘ Making the worde of God of none effecte, through youre awne tradicions which ye have ordeyned’; 12! Tind. ‘A certayne man planted a vineyarde.. . and ordeyned a e presse’; He 3* Tind. ‘He that ordeyned all thinges is god’; Shaks. J Henry VI. rv. i. 33— ‘When first this order was ordained, my lords, Knights of the garter were of noble birth.’ So in AV, Nu 28° ‘It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a sweet savour,’ 1 Καὶ 12%- 8, Pg 82-3, Ts 2612, 2 Es 6%, Sir 715, 8. To decree or enact: thus Irish Articles of Religion (1615), art. 11, ‘God from all eternity did his unchangeable counsel ordain whatever in time should come to pass’; Milton, PL vii. 187— ‘To Him and praise whose wisdom had ordained out of evil to create.’ In AV this meaning occurs in Est 97 ‘The Jews ordained ... that they would keep these two days,’ 1 Es 6% 8%, 2 Es 717 84, To 15 87, Ad. Est 149, 1 Mac 4° 7, 1 Co 27, Eph 2, ἃ, To destine, set apart, appoint. This is the most frequent use of the word in AV, but it must not be confounded with the modern eccles. use, which does not occur. It is found in 2 Καὶ 235, 2 Ch 11 ‘He ordained him priests for the high places,’ Jer 1°, Dn 2%, 1 Es 8%, Ad. Est 13°, Wis 93, Sir 48", 1 Mac 3° 10”, Mk 344, Jn 15", Ac 1” 10 138 14% 16: 1751, Ro 7° 13, 1 Ti 2, Tit 1°, He δ᾽ 83, Jude’. Cf. Gn 24" Tind. ‘The same is she that thou hast ordened for thy servaunte Isaac’; Shaks. J Henry VI. τ. i. 171— *To Eltham will I, where the young king is, Being ordained his special governor, And for his safety there I'll best devise.’