The central meaning of the terms employed is well shown in the following cases :— ' He markeii how thev chose out the chief seats '(Lk 14'); 'Mary hath chosen the good part ' (lll«); 'He called his disciples, and chose from them twelve, whom also he named apostles ' (O^:'), with w^hich other passages relating to the choice of the Twelve should be compared, viz. Jn tl7ii 15I6. 19 13-18, Ac 12, and, as essentially the same, Ao 124; cf. also 1 Co l'-".28, Ja 24. A further selection for some special service is indicated in such passages as— 'God made choice among you that hy my mouth ..." (Ao 16', cf. BS 15'-^- '^) ; ' Many are called, but few chosen '(Mt 2214). ■ •• . -■
gradation the use of the word passes 0
IS", Eph 14 1 P "4
- an almost insensible
14 1 P '4 6 9) The last named appear m a group of
in the Gospels (on the lips of Christ Himself) which
t apocah ptic character and in all which the English render-
nfort inateh elect ch'osen ) (Lk lb') For the he shortened the da; (Mk there are 1 an\ sin iHr 11 Col 31 •> Ti i» Tit 11 1 I spoken of ab 1 ose 1 (Ro 1 (ITi 6"]) nl le Gods p i 9"), and the status of those ; From the foi
Shall
sak 11 ho ei hoin he chose, J I) To these RosJ3 115.'.28, I di duals are d also angels ntioned (Ro stl I 1(1 11 14 I 1' ) ., it IS cleai that in the Gospels, and in the NT ^eneiallj, choice' ex- presses a selection of some among other alterna- ti\es, and commonly selection for some special ser\ ice ; God's people being selected that they may become His servants who serve Him and so serve all in the furtherance of His piirjioses of love, rather than on their own arcount ah.ne. ^lore- over, God's chone is .ilHaVs xiewed ,-i- an .ictual fact seen in its r.-nll-. and neicr as an mteiilion in advance : ex.. .-pi |...iii;i|is in rofcrcnce to St. Paursapost(dal...nMl .la. ..I. destiny, both of which
are, however, s i. ii.l 1.. only when seen in
retrospect. s..- l.i.i' 1. Ikkkwill.
K. P. Bovs-Smith.
CHORAZIN
CHRIST IN ART
CHORAZIN. — Mentioned once only in the Gospels, Mt ll=' = Lk 10•^ along Avitli Bethsaida, as one of tlie ' cities' (ir6Xfis) where most of Jesus' mighty deeds were done. The name is not found in the OT nor in Josephus; and it is not certain whether it be the same place as c-na or cnD men- tioned once in the Talmud (Mcnahoth, 85«), where the superior quality of its wheat is praised. Jastrow's Dictionary gives 'Karzayim near Jeru- salem,' DaJman's 'C'n? name of place.' One MS has D'i-13, two '3 ; see Rabbinowicz, Varia: Lcctiones ; Neubauer, Gfoqraphie du Talmud, p. 220. Most MSS of the N't spell Xopaf(e)ii', others, especially in Luke, Xupa^iv ; so Stephen in Luke, but not Elzevir, Mill ; D both times Xopo^atf, and the same form prevails in the Latin texts : C(h)orozain. Why the editions of the Peshitta, even Gwilliams',
spell ^lici2 A'oraz/n, wefail tosee. Barhebrseus
gives expressly ^1 5(12 Kurz'tn as the vocalization
of the Peshitta, and Chorazin as that of the Greek. Neither the grammatical form of the name (on which see Schwobel, ZDPV x.xvii. 134) nor its etymology is sufficiently clear. The place has been identified with Khersa on the eastern shore of the Lake of Galilee, but more probably with Khirbet Kerazeh, 4 kilometres N. of Tell 5ttm, first discovered by Thomson in 1857. Eusebius calls it a Kuifiri (oppidum), 12 Roman miles from Capernaum , in his time deserted ; but 12 seems to be a mis- spelling of the MS for 2, as rfven by the Latin translation of .Jerome (Eusebius, Onoma.itinm, ed. IGosterraann, 174. 25, 175. 25).* On the ruins of Kerazeh, especially its synagogue, see the literature tjuoted by Schiirer, GJV^ § 27, n. 59. Cheyne's list of Proper Names (in the Queen's Printers' Aids to tlic Student of the Hohj Bible) recommends the pronunciation 'Cho-ra'zin ; this is supported by the modern form Kerazeh, if it be the same name ; the accentuation of the first sjllable, common in German, has the support of Kurzin in the Peshitta ; in Latin Choroza in. The mediaeval explanation of the name ' hoc mysterium meum ' = •IKT Nsn, goes back to Jerome {OS 61. 8). There was once a tradition that the Antichrist was to be born in Chorazin, and that its inhabitants were proud of this, and therefore the place was cursed by Jesus ; see Expos. Times, xv. [1904] p. 524. The name Chorazin is, like that of Nazareth, an interesting illustration of the scantiness of our literary tradition, t Eb. Nestle.
CHOSEN ONE.— This, like ' Beloved ' (wh. see), seems to have been a pre-Christian designation of the Messiah, o iickeKTbt /xov occurs in the LXX of Is 42', and is there defined as 'l<rpari\. But in the Book of Enoch ' the Elect one ' is a common title of the Messiah (cf. 40= 49» 513- ' 52«- » 6P- »• '<> 62>). Traces of it still .surWve in the Gosjjcls. but there seems to have been a tendency to avoid its use, perhaps on the groiuid that it might seem to favour so-called ' AdoptionLst ' \-iews of the nature of Christ's relation to God. Lk 9** substitutes 6 cK\i\eyfi(i>os (NBLS (1), 274 ■»« Syr Sin all'. 1. vg.