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"Every good gift and every perfect GIFT is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning." James 1:17 (KJV)
NOTE: This form used twice in the N.T.
LEXICONS:
STRONG'S - #1394 - from the base of 1325; a giving; by implication a gift: gift, giving.
BARNES - That which is benevolent in its character and tendency.
DONNEGAN - Defines the word as a donation.
GRAY & ADAMS - Good gift = material and temporal nature; perfect gift = spiritual and eternal
LIDDLE-SCOTT - DORIS is a portion or a dose.
PARKHURST - A smaller gift, while DOREMA is a larger gift.
SCHREVELIS - It is a "present". So the whole feeling on the word is a beneficial boon that is not final or permanent but of sufficient value to enhance or enrich the recipient. It is a good gift.
THAYER - Actively - a giving. Passive - A thing given; compare medical "dose".
YOUNG'S - The act of giving.
TRANSLATIONS
AMERICAN STANDARD - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
GEORGE LAMSA - Every good and perfect gift is from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness nor shadow of change.
NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION - Every good and perfect gift if from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows.
REVISED ENGLISH BIBLE - Every good and generous action and every perfect gift come from above, from the Father who created the lights of heaven. When him there is no variation, no play of passing shadows.
COMMENTARIES
BARNES - DOSIS means that which is benevolent in its character and tendency - DOREMA that which is entire where there is nothing apparently even wanting to complete it. The general sense is, that God is the author of all good. Every thing that is good on the earth we are to trace to him; evil has another orgin.
BISHOP ANDREWS - A good gift, DOSIS, represents the act of giving which bestows things of present use for this life for our souls or bodies journeying to our heavenly country but "perfect gift" designates unalloyed and enduring treasures laid up for us in eternity.
CAMBRIDGE - The "perfect gift" carries our thoughts beyond all temporal blessings which tho good have yet an element of incompleteness to the greater gift of the Holy Spirit which is the crowning gift of all.
EERDMANS - James Adamson - All human good comes from the perfect Father of the universe.
J. F. BROWN - DOSIS - the gift in its initiatory stage - the DOREMA the gift when perfected.
LANGE - Here the reference is probably tot he Christian revelation in the fulness of its gifts.
LIGHTFOOT - Philo says perfect, DOREMA is much stronger and involves the idea of magnitude and fullness which is wanting in the good gift.
LUTHERAN - It is unnecessary to draw a distinction between temporal gifts and spiritual gifts. Only good gifts come from God and all good gifts come only from God.
MAYOR - An example of DOSIS is the gradual instilling of wisdom of DOREMA the final crown of life.PULPIT COMM. - Jesus came down from heaven. Holy Spirits is from above. Ministering angels descend the stairway from heaven. Wisdom is from above. At last the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, shall come down out of heaven from God.
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