generations being placed in contrast with the words, "but now made manifest."

Turning briefly to a few examples of the use of apo in combination, we notice:--

Apekduomai and apekdusis.--"Having stript off the old man" (Col. 3: 9). This

"stripping off" is no work of man, it looks back to the sacrifice of Calvary, for the very

same word is used in Col. 2: 15, translated "spoiled." Nor is this all, not only is the

glorious truth of the new creation connected with the triumphant putting off of

principalities and powers, but Col. 2: 11 declares that in the death of Christ we are

circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands "in the stripping off of the body of

the flesh in the circumcision of Christ."

Apokaluptõ and apokalupsis.--This word, which gives us the title of the last book of

the Bible, the Apocalypse, indicates the removal of a veil.  The early occurrences of

apokaluptõ (Matt. 10: 26; 11: 25, 27 and 16: 17) testify to the fact that revelation is not a

process of reasoning, study or foresight, but, as the contexts of such passages as

I Cor. 2: 10, Gal. 1: 16 and Phil. 3: 15 declare, it is entirely the work of God. The first

clause of the first recorded prayer of the Lord's prisoner was for "a spirit of wisdom and

unveiling" (Eph. 1: 17). The "revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ" was the hope during

that period covered by the "Acts" (I Cor. 1: 7), and of the dispersion (I Pet. 1: 7) "the

appearing." This deferred hope of Israel will take place as indicated and described in the

book of the Revelation, "when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming

fire, taking vengeance." The word is never used of the hope of the church in the prison

Further, unless the book of the Revelation has been sadly mis-named, the orthodox

interpretation must give place to something more worthy of the title. No book seems to

have been so enveloped in mystery by tradition as this book, which purports to be an

Aphiemi.--This word means to send away or dismiss, Matt. 13: 36; to give up the

life, Matt. 27: 50; to put away, as in divorce, I Cor. 7: 11. How striking is the force of

this complete dismissal and divorcement when we remember that this word is translated

in the A.V. 47 times by the word "forgive," e.g., Rom. 4: 7, I John 1: 9; 2: 12.

Aphesis.--This related word is rendered in the A.V.  by "deliverance," once,

"forgiveness," six times, "liberty," once, and "remission," nine times. Thanks be to God

for the complete separation from our sin, its defilement and its curse taught by the little

word apo.

The reader should examine such words as apostasia, apoluõ, apokeima,

apokathistemi, apostellõ, etc.

The epistles particularly should be studied, and the

bearing of apo upon doctrine, practice and hope carefully noted.