[I.] The reader should be informed that the word which is rendered "perfect," in the above passage, occurs but this once in the entire New Testament. It is [Greek: artios] (artios) and signifies, ready, complete, well fitted; as an instrument with all its strings, a machine with all its parts, a body with all its limbs, joints, muscles, and sinews. The usual word for "perfect" is [Greek: teleios] (teleios) which signifies the reaching of the moral _end_, in any particular thing.
Mackintosh, Charles Henry, 1820-1896 • SECTION 10
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← The Assembly of God. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. III
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