Nor shadow of turning

Nor shadow of turning  

A study by Rick Livermore

 

The following information is a batch of 3 block quotes relating to a unique series of words in James 1:17. The highlight color I added is the teal because I wanted the other colors to stand out as colors from the block quotes. The science of astronomy had not yet emerged when this was written. The movements of the sun, moon, planets, and stars had not been understood well enough to build a planetarium that could simulate those movements. Imagine a gift coming down from the Father of Lights. Read on and you will know a little more about the four words translated "nor shadow of turning."

James 1:16 (WuestNT)

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Stop being deceived, my brethren, beloved ones. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there can be no variableness nor shadow which is cast by the motion of turning. In accordance with His deliberate purpose He brought us into being by means of the word of truth, resulting in our being a kind of first fruits of His creatures. 

τροπή [See Stg: <G5157>]

tropé; gen. tropés, fem. noun from trépō (n.f., see anatrépō <G396>), to turn. A turning, turning back as of the heavenly bodies in their courses (James 1:17; Sept.: Deut. 33:14; Job 38:33).

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Variation (parallagē). Old word from parallassō, to make things alternate, here only in N.T. In Aristeas in sense of alternate stones in pavements. Dio Cassius has parallaxis without reference to the modern astronomical parallax, though James here is comparing God (Father of the lights) to the sun (Malachi 4:2), which does have periodic variations.

 

Shadow that is cast by turning (tropēs aposkiasma). Tropē is an old word for "turning" (from trepō to turn), here only in N.T. Aposkiasma is a late and rare word (aposkiasmos in Plutarch) from aposkiazō (apo, skia) a shade cast by one object on another. It is not clear what the precise metaphor is, whether the shadow thrown on the dial (aposkiazō in Plato) or the borrowed light of the moon lost to us as it goes behind the earth. In fact, the text is by no means certain, for Aleph B papyrus of fourth century actually read hē tropēs aposkiasmatos (the variation of the turning of the shadow). Ropes argues strongly for this reading, and rather convincingly. At any rate there is no such periodic variation in God like that we see in the heavenly bodies.

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     In conclusion The Father of the lights gives every good and every perfect gift, and He has the attribute of being without variableness like the sun, moon, planets and stars, those lights we can observe from earth. This is a good thing, it is re-assuring. I found out about this when reading James chapter 1: 16 out of Wuest, which was more specific about it than most of the other translations I had read.

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Block Quote from Wuest NT Translation of First Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13:1–13 (WUESTNT)

    1–3            If in the languages of men I speak and the languages of the angels but do not have love [Greek word here used of God’s love produced in the heart of the yielded saint by the Holy Spirit, a love that impels one to deny himself for the sake of the loved one], I have already become and at present am sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of uttering divine revelations and know all the mysteries and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith so that I am able to keep on removing mountain after mountain, but am not possessing love, I am nothing. And if I use all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver up my body [as a martyr] in order that I may glory, but do not have love, I am being profited in not even one thing.

    4–8            Love meekly and patiently bears ill treatment from others. Love is kind, gentle, benign, pervading and penetrating the whole nature, mellowing all which would have been harsh and austere; is not envious. Love does not brag, nor does it show itself off, is not ostentatious, does not have an inflated ego, does not act unbecomingly, does not seek after the things which are its own, is not irritated, provoked, exasperated, aroused to anger, does not take into account the evil [which it suffers], does not rejoice at the iniquity but rejoices with the truth, endures all things, believes all things, hopes all things, bears up under all things, not losing heart nor courage. Love never fails.

    8–13            But whether there are utterances given by a person consisting of divine revelations he has received, they shall cease; whether languages, they shall stop, whether knowledge, it shall be done away; for we know in a partial, fragmentary, incomplete way, and we utter divine revelations in the same way. But whenever that which is complete comes, that which is incomplete and fragmentary will be done away. When I was a child I was accustomed to speak as a child. I used to understand as a child. I was accustomed to reason as a child. When I have become a man and have the status of an adult, I have permanently put away the things of a child, for we are seeing now by means of a mirror obscurely, but then, face to face. Now I know only in a fragmentary fashion, but then I shall fully know even as also I was known. But now there remains faith, hope, love; these three. But the greatest of these is this previously mentioned love.

Kenneth S. Wuest, The New Testament: An Expanded Translation (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1961), 

1 Co 13

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Encounter God’s Heart…Fountain of Joy

Encounter God's Heart…

Fountain of Joy

What is your picture of God? Is it of an overly serious figure that doles out his grace and mercy begrudgingly? Is it of a somber grandfatherly man who does not particularly like people but puts up with them, in any case, because he created them? Perhaps you imagine him more like the father of the prodigal son, full of hope and longing, full of love ready to fully restore his sons and daughters who turn toward him? Jesus told the parable of the prodigal son so that we would know better what the Father is like. He runs to meet us on the path, long before we have made our way to his house. He wraps us up in robes of righteousness, throwing a celebration for our homecoming. There are no lectures, only tears of joy. In his joy, we find relief. In our relief, we are filled with joy in return.   Lord, I want to live from the joy of your favor. I know all it takes is turning to you. You are incomparably good, irrepressibly merciful, and you cover my shame with your own robes of righteousness.   From Wrapped in Christ written by Brian Simmons

2 Corinthians 9:7 The Passion Translation   Let giving flow from your heart, not from a sense of religious duty. Let it spring up freely from the joy of giving—all because God loves hilarious generosity!

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