Profane

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PROFANE.—‘To profane’ is ‘to make ceremonially unclean,’ ‘to make unholy.’ And so a ‘profane person’ (Heb_12:16) is an ‘ungodly person,’ a person of common, coarse life, not merely of speech.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


an epithet applied to those who abuse and contemn holy things. The Scripture calls Esau profane, because he sold his birthright, which was considered a holy thing, not only because the priesthood was annexed to it, but also because it was a privilege relating to Christ, and a type of the title of believers to the heavenly inheritance, Heb_12:16. The priests of the race of Aaron were enjoined to distinguish between sacred and profane, between pure and polluted, Lev_10:10; Lev_19:7-8. Hence they were prohibited the use of wine during their attendance on the temple service, that their spirits might not be discomposed by excitement. To profane the temple, to profane the Sabbath, to profane the altar, are common expressions to denote the violation of the rest of the Sabbath, the entering of foreigners into the temple, or the want of reverence in those that entered it, and the impious sacrifices that were offered on the altar of the Lord.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


prṓ-fān? (verb חלל, ḥālal, adjective חלל, ḥālāl, חל, ḥōl; βεβηλόω, bebēlóō, βέβηλος, bébēlos): From profanus, ?before (i.e. outside) the temple,? therefore unholy, polluted, secular, is of frequent occurrence (verb and adjective) in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. It occurs as the translation of ḥōl in the King James Version only in Ezek (22:26, the Revised Version (British and American) ?common?; 42:20; 44:23; 48:15, the Revised Version (British and American) ?for common use?); as the translation of ḥālāl in Lev_21:7, Lev_21:14, the Revised Version margin ?polluted?; and Eze_21:25, where, for the King James Version ?thou profane wicked prince of Israel,? the Revised Version (British and American) has ?thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel.? ?To profane? (ḥālal) is seen in Lev_18:21; Lev_19:8; Neh_13:17, Neh_13:18; Psa_89:39; Isa_43:28; Eze_22:8, Eze_22:26, etc. ?Profaneness? in Jer_23:15 (ḥănuppāh) is in the American Standard Revised Version ?ungodliness.? In the New Testament ?profane? occurs in the sense of unholy, godless, regardless of God and divine things (1Ti_1:9; 1Ti_4:7; 1Ti_6:20; 2Ti_2:16; Heb_12:16), and ?to profane,? or violate, in Mat_12:5; Act_24:6. The verb is frequent in Apocrypha in 1 Macc (1:43, 45, 63; 2:34, etc.; also in 2 Macc 8:2; 10:5; compare 2 Esdras 15:8; Judith 4:3, 12; 1 Macc 1:48; 2 Macc 4:13). In numerous cases the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes ?profane? for other words and phrases in the King James Version, as for ?to prostitute? (Lev_19:29), ?an hypocrite? (Isa_9:17), ?pollute? (Num_18:32; Eze_7:21), etc.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Profane
(חָנִ, chandph, Jer_23:11; βέβηλος, Heb_12:16). To profane is to put holy things to vile or common uses; as the money- changers did the Temple, by converting a part of it into a place of business (Mat_21:12), and as those do who allow secular occupations to engross any part of the Sabbath under the old, or of the Lord's day under the new dispensation (Exo_20:8-10). Esau, for despising his birthright and its privileges, is styled by the apostle “a profane person” (Heb_12:16). The term is also used in opposition to holy. Thus the general history of ancient nations is styled profane, as distinguished from that contained in the Bible; profane writings are such as have been composed by heathens, in contradistinction from the sacred books of Scripture, and the writings of Christian authors on sacred subjects.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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