NOTES AND QUERIES by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 25, 1860

NOTES AND QUERIES.

By Editor

"CONVERSATION."

A CORRESPONDENT inquires the definition of the word rendered "conversation" in Gal. i, 13. Heb. xiii, 7. 1 Pet. ii, 12; iii, 1, 2, &c. We give the following from Greenfield:

"Ἀναστροφή, conversation, mode of life, conduct, deportment." Robinson defines it: "A turning about. In the New Testament, converse, manner of life, walk, conduct." In addition to the above, the word occurs in the following texts which comprises its entire use in the New Testament: Eph. iv, 22. 1 Tim. iv, 12. Jas. iii, 13. 1 Pet. i, 15, 18; ii, 16. 2 Pet. ii, 7; iii, 11. The word rendered conversation in Phil. iii, 20, is πολίτευμα, and is defined to be, "any institution, &c., belonging to a commonwealth; a state, community, commonwealth."

"LOVE THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW."

G. P. W., of Me. The word rendered fulfilling in Rom. xiii, is defined, "A fullness, plenitude, i. e., that of which anything is full; a fulfillment, fulfilling, i. e., exact observance. Rom. xiii, 10." Greenfield. The doctrine the apostle would inculcate is, that a manifestation of perfect love, either to God or our fellow-men, necessarily involves an exact observance of the moral law.

The Catholic works from which quotations are made in the tract, "Who Changed the Sabbath," can be obtained at any Catholic book-store. We obtained ours in Rochester, N. Y.

THE LAW UNTIL JOHN.

QUERY. Will you explain one point in reference to the Sanctuary? Allowing that at the rending of the vail of the temple, the Levitical priesthood ceased, and the Melchisedec began, who was our intercessor while Christ lay in the grave? What law and prophets ceased with John?**

ANSWER. The first of the above queries is of that class in which nothing is involved, and which, therefore, we do not consider it profitable to spend much time in attempting to solve. It is a question which might naturally enough suggest itself in connection with the Sanctuary subject, but its answer would in no wise affect that subject. Whether we take our view of the Sanctuary or any other, the same query would still exist, and all that we can see to be gained by its answer, would be a gratification of curiosity. In regard to the second, we do not understand that Luke xvi, 16, affirms that any law or prophets ceased with John, but only that up to the time of John the law and the prophets were all the light the world had; but since that time we have, in addition, the preaching of the kingdom of God.