gospel as pictured in the Old Testament:
2 Samuel 18:19
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings (basar), how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.
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the "gospel" is ...
news from the battlefield about the outcome of the war with the king's enemies
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The reasons why Joab declined to accept Ahimaaz' offer to bear intelligence of the victory to David, and afterwards let him go along with another, are variously stated by commentators--but they are of no importance. Yet the alacrity of the messengers, as well as the eager excitement of the expectants, is graphically described.
-- Jamieson, Fausset and Brown
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Strong's Lexicon Definition
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Word: basar (baw-sar')
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Hebrew verb
Strongs number 01319
Number of verses 26
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Meaning:
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1) to bear news, bear tidings, publish, preach, show forth
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a) (Piel)
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1) to gladden with good news
2) to bear news
3) to announce (salvation) as good news, preach
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b) (Hithpael) to receive good news
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| gospel as revealed in the New Testament:
Galatians 1:6
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel (euaggelion):
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the "gospel" is ...
sometimes distorted to make it less effective.
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Learn hence that men, professedly pious, and apparently ardently attached to the gospel, may become soon perverted in their views, and alienated from those who had called them into the gospel, and whom they professed tenderly to love. The ardour of the affections becomes cool, and some artful, and zealous, and plausible teachers of error seduce the mind, corrupt the heart, and alienate the affections. Where there is the ardour of the first love to God, there is also an effort soon made by the adversary to turn away the heart from him; and young converts are commonly soon attacked in some plausible manner, and by art and arguments adapted to turn away their minds from the truth, and to alienate the affections from God.
-- Albert Barnes
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Word: euaggelion (yoo-ang-ghel'-ee-on)
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Greek noun
Strongs number 2098
Number of verses 77
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1) a reward for good tidings
2) good tidings
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a) the glad tidings of the kingdom of God soon to be set up, and subsequently also of Jesus the Messiah, the founder of this kingdom. After the death of Christ, the term comprises also the preaching of (concerning) Jesus Christ as having suffered death on the cross to procure eternal salvation for the men in the kingdom of God, but as restored to life and exalted to the right hand of God in heaven, thence to return in majesty to consummate the kingdom of God
b) the glad tidings of salvation through Christ
c) the proclamation of the grace of God manifest and pledged in Christ
d) the gospel
e) as the messianic rank of Jesus was proved by his words, his deeds, and his death, the narrative of the sayings, deeds, and death of Jesus Christ came to be called the gospel or glad tidings
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