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.