[Greek] παραδίδωμι (paradidōmi), [Latin] tradere, [Latin] producere, [Latin] aperire, [French] remettre, [French] decouvrir, [German] hervorbringen: to give over, to entrust, to transmit, to hand over, to instruct, to betray, to allow; 135 scriptural passages
Just hand it over to God
Background information:
Greek Hellenism: This term means to hand over, to transmit, to hand down, to surrender, to entrust, to maintain, to teach, to send, to receive, and to betray.
Plato’s Critias 106b: “If we unwittingly we have spoken aught discordantly, that he will impose the fitting penalty. And the correct penalty is to bring him into tune him that is out of tune.”
Euripides’ Phoenissae 1393: “Polyneices, seeing a chance of dealing him a blow, aimed at him.”
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia 8.6.17: “He has the proper official appointed to receive the letters that were delivered to and to forward them on.”
Xenophon’s Hellenica 6.3.4: “I am not the only member of our family who has held the position, but my father received it from his father.”
Euripides’ Orestes 64: “Hermione was entrusted to my mother’s keeping.”
Herodotus’ The Histories 1.45: “The murderer stood before the body and gave himself up to Croesus.”
Plato’s Euthydemus 285c: “Have you heard how Themistocles had his son Cleophanes taught to be a good horseman.”
Ploto’s Philebus 16c: “The ancients handed down the tradition that all the things which ever said to exist are sprung from one.”
Old Testament: This term means to give (be given), to cause, to put, to place, to produce, to allow, to appoint, to pay, to buy, and to hang. The more nuanced meanings are to marry (to be taken in marriage), to slander (to take abuse), to have sexual relations (to take someone), to take advantage, to avenge, to sit (take a seat), to give retribution, and to be stubborn (turn the back).
New Testament: This term, used quite extensively, means to hand over (be arrested, punished and crucified), to betray, to entrust, to bring forth, to abandon, and to be devoted to. There are many examples where Jesus is handed over by the authorities. I will then deliver and hand over my focus on the other meanings and uses of this term.
To betray:
Mt.24:10: Many will betray one another
Mt.26:46: My betrayer (Judas) was at hand
To entrust:
Mt.25:14: Servants entrusted with talents
Mt.11:27: All things have been over to Me by the Father
Lk.1:1-2: A testimony handed down to us
Lk. 4:6: Earthly power that has been handed to the devil
Acts 6:14: The customs that Moses handed down to us
Jud.1:3: The faith that was handed down to the holy ones
To bring forth:
1Tim.1:11: The glorious gospel which I have been entrusted
Tit.1:3: Which I was entrusted by the command of God
Mk.4:29: When the seed grain is ripe (brought forth)
To abandon:
Rom.1:24: God handed them over to impurity
Eph.4:19: They have handed themselves over to licentiousness
Etymology: The Greek verb paradidomi means to give (didomai) beside (para-). The Latin verb tradere means to hand over, surrender, or deliver. The Latin verb aperire means to open, to disclose, or to reveal. The Latin verb producere means to bring out, to promote, and to induce.
Traditores: The Traditores refer to those bishops and Christians who willingly turned over their scriptures and betrayed their fellow Christians to the Roman authorities under the threat of persecution. The Lapsi were apostates who renounced their faith under persecution by the Roman authorities. This term refers to those who have lapsed or fallen away from their faith, only to return to it later.
Conclusion:
Trade, treason, traitor, tradition, remit, aperture, produce, bring discover, lapse
Again, these Greek quotes can be applicable in any time period.
In the Old Testament, it was interesting to discover the more nuance meanings of this term.
In the New Testament, this term also has various nuanced meanings. Delivering the decrees means observing the customs. Jesus handing Himself over the Spirit means dying on the cross. In some situations, handing over (delivering) to Satan comes from the authority of Paul or Jesus.
Traditores essentially handed over the bibles to the authorities for fear of persecution. These people betrayed their own faith.
Update: Many have been pleading for the social media tech firms (“technology gods”) to continue to exert their authority of censorship (content moderation).
Anticipating the Supreme Court ruling, many have taken it upon themselves to riot, to threaten conservative justices, and to target pro-life facilities.
These protesters are betraying any notion of decency and decorum by targeting these justices. (They just don’t care what others think!)
One has to hand it to the conservative justices for making their decision based on legal principles rather than on public opinion.
The issue of abortion will now be handed over the authority of the states.
Politics, government, and diplomacy continue to be conducted through the use of correspondence and intermediaries.
At least the West and allied nations are handing over defensive weapons (assets) to Ukraine in their war against Russia.
We are now faced with what should or shouldn’t be talked about (CRT and sex/gender) in the schools.
Some teachers have been fired (or have handed in their resignation) because they had talked about their sexuality to their kids.
We are now constantly being handed down from authorities the “tradition” of the “big lie” of voter fraud. (Then why do these voter irregularities (circumstances) repeatedly continue to be discovered upon further examination?)
This past Mother’s Day reminds us that were were all at once entrusted to our mother’s keeping. Those aborted will never have the opportunity to experience this blessing.
Handing it over to God:
“You will never be happy if your happiness depends on getting soley what you want. Change the focus. Get a new center. Will what God wills, and your joy no man shall take from you.” Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Throughout history, there has always been a continuing tradition of wars and battlefields where land, power, ideas, and values are fought over with. Both sides can often trip or fall down when encountering stumbling blocks, snares, and traps. We also live in a cancel culture where one is easily offended (taken offense). Circumstances can sometimes force one to be rightly scandalized where values are often betrayed, surrendered, or turned upside down (living in a post-modern Christian world that has been handed down to us).
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