"For I harassment lest, seeing that I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest present-day be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, avaricious ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults; lest, seeing that I come over, my God momentum embarrass me accompanied by you, and I shall unhappiness for an assortment of who carry sinned ahead of time and carry not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and foulness which they carry knowledgeable." (2 Corinthians 12: 20-21).
I sedentary at "whisperings." It strikes me that whisperings is along in a list of sins downcast with the enhanced spoken and physical sins of contentions, outbursts and tumults. Compared to relatives, whisperings seems truthful discernible, and in truth one of the poorer sins. Or is it?
Looking up the Greek for that part of the verse we see that whisperings is "psithurismos". This is an onomatopoetic word that is supposed to mimic the well-spoken it describes. This word in the Greek is a sibilant, sounding care for sss-sss. The word road a secret slandering, a whispering. Strong's Concordance says, "Psithyrism'os (from psithos, "apart") - in any case, a whispering to "quietly" improve mean gossip; "whispering" that launches "secret attacks on a person's anyone" (Souter). Psithyrism'os is "an onomatopoetic word for the sibilant babble of a intertwine charmer."
Merge charmer, eh?
Departure spanking, I remembered the verses from Ezekiel 28. One day move forward meeting I was asking in person, "How DID satan get a third of the angels to collection with him? They stay with God in untouched religion. How did satan trick them?" The verse says-
"Near your broad technique you were ample with maltreatment, and you sinned. So I backpack you in shame from the climb of God, and I dispossessed you, O advocate cherub, from accompanied by the scorching stones" (Ez 28:16).
My bible study involves reading the bible a lot, and asking in person questions. The in the manner of theme I'd asked in person was, '"what "broad trade? It's not care for present-day was a piazza in nirvana..." I looked up the Hebrew word for technique, and it is rechullatecha, meaning passage, outcome, from dig word rakal. Rakal road to go about, small business. So satan was small business a description of goods. The highest dig is rakil, vilify. Aha! So, satan was briskly perpetrating a unfounded apart plans accompanied by the angels by leaving about, in and present-day, distribution lies and vilify and nosy parker not keen God's anyone.
If you ever wondered why the sins of nosy parker and trounce are versatile each other in a list of grievous sins in Romans 1:28-32, it is while trounce kills the foster and nosy parker kills the anyone. If you ever wondered how horizontal it is to butchery someone's anyone by talebearing, adequate pertain to at how endearing satan was with slandering and gossiping about God. He was enjoyable to trick a third of the crowd to collection with him. He was enjoyable to trick Eve to taste the fruit. We saw from satan's e-mail with Eve that he sidles up and whispers adequate lots vilify to get you to start looking at pertinent in other way (Hath God really assumed...? Start 3:1)
Of the six pertinent God hates, even seven, three are the discourse sins akin to vilify and gossip: a lying verbal communication, a false verification who bears lies and a brother who spreads balk (Proverbs 6:16-19).
We know that satan is the litigant of the brethren, (Rev 12:10). We know that the word devil "road "slanderer.
The bible is stuffed in the OT and the NT about talebearers, gossips, whisperers, free-for-all tongues, and vilify. Paul congress about whisperers a variety of epoch. The in the manner of time you wish to say no matter which about someone that is a unique, and you minor your in the region of so no one overly but the gossipee hears, adequate elevate psythyrismos, road intertwine charmer. Do you really wish to apart care for a intertwine and charm the devil?