Sentence In the NT this word is used only three times: (1) as indicating a judicial sentence (ἐ πικρίνω, Luke 23:24; See Trial-at-law); (2) as giving a decision or judgment on a matter submitted for settlement (κρίνω): ‘My sentence (RV [Note: V Revised Version.] ‘judgement’) is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God’ (Acts 15:19); (3) as a conclusion come to, or an answer given to a question put in certain circumstances (ἀ πόκριμα): ‘But we had the sentence of death in ourselves’ (2 Corinthians 1:9 AV [Note: V Authorized Version.]; RV [Note: V Revised Version.], ‘Yea, we ourselves have had the answer [RVm [Note: Vm Revised Version margin.] ‘sentence’] of death within ourselves’). The word is of very frequent use in Acts and the Epistles in the sense of expressing a personal judgment or decision, or of holding an opinion (Acts 26:8, 1 Corinthians 2:2, etc.).

John Reid.


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