Compassion

VIEW:37 DATA:01-04-2020
COMPASSION.—See Pity.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


See MERCY.
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.


kom-pash?un: Compassion is the translation of רחם, rāḥam, ?to love,? ?pity,? ?be merciful? (Deu_13:17; Deu_30:3); of raḥămı̄m, ?mercies? (1Ki_8:50); of חמל, ḥāmal, ?to pity,? ?spare? (Exo_2:6; 1Sa_23:21); רחום, raḥūm (Psa_78:38; Psa_86:15; Psa_111:4; Psa_112:4; Psa_145:8), is rendered by the American Standard Revised Version ?merciful.? We have σπλαγχνίζομαι, splagchnı́zomai, ?to have the bowels yearning,? in Mat_9:36; Mat_14:14, etc.; sumpathéō (Heb_10:34), ?to suffer with (another)?; sumpathḗs (1Pe_3:8, the Revised Version (British and American) ?compassionate,? margin, Greek, ?sympathetic?); metriopathéō (Heb_5:2, the Revised Version (British and American) ?who can bear gently with?); eleéō, ?to show mildness,? ?kindness? (Mat_18:33; Mar_5:19; Jud_1:22, the Revised Version (British and American) ?mercy?); oikteı́rō, ?to have pity? or ?mercy? (Rom_9:15 bis).
Both rāḥam and splagchnizomai are examples of the physical origin of spiritual terms, the bowels being regarded as the seat of the warm, tender emotions or feelings. But, while rāḥam applied to the lower viscera as well as the higher, splágchnon denoted chiefly the higher viscera, the heart, lungs, liver.
The Revised Version (British and American) gives ?compassion? for ?mercy? (Isa_9:17; Isa_14:1; Isa_27:11; Isa_49:13; Jer_13:14; Jer_30:18; Dan_1:9 the King James Version ?tender love with?; for ?bowels of compassion,? 1Jo_3:17); for ?mercy? (Heb_10:28); ?full of compassion? for ?merciful? (the American Standard Revised Version ?merciful? in all cases) (Ex Exo_34:6; Neh_9:17; Psa_103:8; Joe_2:13; Jon_4:2); ?compassions for mercies? (Isa_63:15; Phi_2:1), for ?repentings? (Hos_11:8).
Compassion, literally a feeling with and for others, is a fundamental and distinctive quality of the Biblical conception of God, and to its prominence the world owes more than words can express. (1) It lay at the foundation of Israel's faith in Yahweh. For it was out of His compassion that He, by a marvelous act of power, delivered them from Egyptian bondage and called them to be His own people. Nothing, therefore, is more prominent in the Old Testament than the ascription of compassion, pity, mercy, etc., to God; the people may be said to have gloried in it. It is summed up in such sayings as that of the great declaration in Exo_34:6 : ?Yahweh - a God full of compassion (the American Standard Revised Version merciful) and gracious? (compare Psa_78:38; Psa_86:15; Psa_111:4; Psa_112:4; Psa_145:8; Lam_3:22, ?His compassions fail not?). And, because this was the character of their God, the prophets declared that compassion was an essential requirement on the part of members of the community (Hos_6:6; Mic_6:8; compare Pro_19:17). (2) In Jesus Christ, in whom God was ?manifest in the flesh,? compassion was an outstanding feature (Mat_9:36; Mat_14:14, etc.) and He taught that it ought to be extended, not to friends and neighbors only, but to all without exception, even to enemies (Mat_5:43-48; Luk_10:30-37).
The God of the New Testament, the Father of men, is most clearly revealed as ?a God full of compassion.? It extends to the whole human race, for which He effected not merely a temporal, but a spiritual and eternal, deliverance, giving up His own Son to the death of the cross in order to save us from the worst bondage of sin, with its consequences; seeking thereby to gain a new, wider people for Himself, still more devoted, more filled with and expressive of His own Spirit. Therefore all who know the God and Father of Christ, and who call themselves His children, must necessarily cultivate compassion and show mercy, ?even as he is merciful.? Hence, the many apostolic injunctions to that effect (Eph_4:32; Col_3:12; Jam_1:27; 1Jo_3:17, etc.). Christianity may be said to be distinctively the religion of Compassion.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.





Norway

FACEBOOK

Participe de nossa rede facebook.com/osreformadoresdasaude

Novidades, e respostas das perguntas de nossos colaboradores

Comments   2

BUSCADAVERDADE

Visite o nosso canal youtube.com/buscadaverdade e se INSCREVA agora mesmo! Lá temos uma diversidade de temas interessantes sobre: Saúde, Receitas Saudáveis, Benefícios dos Alimentos, Benefícios das Vitaminas e Sais Minerais... Dê uma olhadinha, você vai gostar! E não se esqueça, dê o seu like e se INSCREVA! Clique abaixo e vá direto ao canal!


Saiba Mais

  • Image Nutrição
    Vegetarianismo e a Vitamina B12
  • Image Receita
    Como preparar a Proteína Vegetal Texturizada
  • Image Arqueologia
    Livro de Enoque é um livro profético?
  • Image Profecia
    O que ocorrerá no Armagedom?

Tags