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Définitions du dictionnaire biblique pour : "Law"
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Law
<A-1,Noun,3551,nomos>
akin to nemo, "to divide out, distribute," primarily meant "that which is assigned;" hence, "usage, custom," and then, "law, law as prescribed by custom, or by statute;" the word ethos, "custom," was retained for unwritten "law," while nomos became the established name for "law" as decreed by a state and set up as the standard for the administration of justice.
In the NT it is used (a) of "law" in general, e.g., Rom. 2:12,13, "a law" (RV), expressing a general principle relating to "law;" Rom. 2:14, last part; Rom. 3:27, "By what manner of law?" i.e., "by what sort of principle (has the glorying been excluded)?;" Rom. 4:15 (last part); Rom. 5:13, referring to the period between Adam's trespass and the giving of the Law; Rom. 7:1 (1st part, RV marg., "law"); against those graces which constitute the fruit of the Spirit "there is no law," Gal. 5:23; "the ostensible aim of the law is to restrain the evil tendencies natural to man in his fallen estate; yet in experience law finds itself not merely ineffective, it actually provokes those tendencies to greater activity. The intention of the gift of the Spirit is to constrain the believer to a life in which the natural tendencies shall have no place, and to produce in him their direct contraries. Law, therefore, has nothing to say against the fruit of the Spirit; hence the believer is not only not under law, Gal 5:18, the law finds no scope in his life, inasmuch as, and in so far as, he is led by the Spirit;" *