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Matt. 14:2. aiJ dunavmei" ejnergou'sin ejn aujtw'/ . || Mark 6:14.

According to Lightfoot (on Gal. 5:6) ejnergei'sqai ‘is never passive in St Paul,’ but ‘the Spirit of God or the spirit of evil ejnergei' ; the human agent or the human mind ejnergei'tai ’ (middle).

The adjective ejnerghv" occurs 1 Cor. 16:6, Philem. 6, and Heb. 4:12.

Divine working is denoted in

Thess. 2:13. ‘Ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.’ Cor. 12:6. ‘And there are diversities of workings ( ejnerghmavtwn ), but the same God, who worketh ( oJ ejnergw'n ) all things in all.’ (Cf. vs. 10 ‘workings of miracles.’)
ib. vs. 11. ‘But all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as He will.’

Cor. 1:6. ‘Or whether we be comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh ( ejnergei'tai ) in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.’ Gal. 2:8. ‘For He that wrought for Peter ( oJ ejnerghvsa" Pevtrw/ ) unto the apostleship of the circumcision wrought for me also unto the Gentiles.’

Gal. 3:5. ‘He that supplieth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles Phil. 2:13. ‘God it is Who “ worketh in you both to will and to work ” in fulfilment of His good pleasure’ (‘His benevolent purpose,’ Lightfoot, q.v. ): where ‘the qevlein and the ejnergei'n correspond respectively to the “gratia praeveniens” and the “gratia cooperans” of a later theology’ (Lightfoot ad loc. ).

Phil. 3:21. ‘According to the working ( i.e. by ‘the exercise of the power,’ Lightfoot ad loc. ) whereby He is able also to subject all things unto Himself’: where, as in ‘Eph. 1:19 th;n ejnevrgeian tou' kravtou" th'" ijscuvo" aujtou' [and 3:7 th;n ejnevrgeian th'" dunavmew" aujtou' ], the expression th;n ejnevrgeian tou' duvnasqai involves the common antithesis of duvnami" and ejnevrgeia ’ (Lightfoot ad
loc.
).

Col. 2:12. ‘Through your faith in the working ( th'" ejnergeiva" ) of God, Who raised Him from the dead.’

Eph. 1:11. ‘Of Him, Who worketh all things after the counsel of His
where the verb
ejnergei'n brings out the idea of the personal power which is operative rather than the result produced.
ib. vs. 19. ‘According to the working of the might of His strength.’ Eph. 3:7. ‘Whereof I became a minister according to the working of His


ib. vs. 20. ‘According to the power that worketh in us.’ [where, as in Col. 1:29, 1 Thess. 2:13, and Gal. 5:6, the middle ejnergoumevnhn is used, apparently because there is a human agent transmitting the Divine energy.]

On the other hand Satanic working is denoted in

Thess. 2:7. ‘For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work.’

among you.’

Will’:

power.’


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