I don't know about the -sy/-cy thing, garee. I can't find any modern versions of the bible where the two appear as nouns. Can you point me to some?
I just wrote about words having meanings attached to them without having seen this comment of yours. I was trying to work out the meaning of teaching you give to prophecy.
As for Strong, he is using -sy for the verb and -cy for the noun and gives both meanings, foretelling and forth-telling for each. Or am I missing something? You might have to spell this out for me, garee. I just can't see what you're talking about. Can someone else help us out maybe? Small brain, here. Thanks!
I can try and explain it the way I understand.
The word prophe
cy is a
noun. (The last syllable of prophe
cy is pronounced......... sea.)
The word prophe
sy is a
verb. (The last syllable of prophe
sy is pronounced.......sigh.)
Again one is a noun as a person, place or a thing.
Scripture, prophecy the noun is that which gives us understanding to what the thing is. Prophecy is the word of God. It is a living word that cannot return void of the purpose by which God sends it. It judges between the spirit and the soul as the intent of every heart that comes under its hearing.
A prophet, a noun is the person that God moves and sends. A prophet is a person God sends with another authority other than oneself. He is an apostle (verb) as one moved by the will of another.. All of those God sends to carry out the great commission, are apostles.( verbs) we attribute nothing they are sent with to them.
What we are to with it, prophecy, as the noun, is “prophesy the verb, the action, we bring it forth as God moves us to do so.
The word prophecy (the noun) is used 21 times in the whole Bible to indicate scripture.
We have also a more sure word “of prophecy”; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.2Peter 1:19
There above we learn prophecy, the word of God as noun is not after the prophet/apostle.
The word prophesy ( the verb )is used differently 78 times.
After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy (this is not to create the word of God but proclaim it as a verb)
,And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy (this is not to create the word of God but proclaim it as a verb)
,with them, and shalt be turned into another man. 1Sa 10:5
As for Strong, he is using -sy for the verb and -cy for the noun and gives both meanings, foretelling and forth-telling for each.
A distinction between the things of God and those of men must be defined or an improper understanding of words like apostle can in the end of the mater produce a false apostle. as one used as a succession called apostolic succession .
Some changed the word apostle a verb into a noun as the authority of a person and in doing so usurp the authority of God’s prophecy, and make it into a private interpretation. And in doing so usurp the authority of God’s word by assuming its authority could be after o r generated, created by sinful men inspired from earth..
And prophecy is not time sensitive.it does much more that foretell . It gives us God’s witness to whether something is past present or future as in forth telling. One third of Human history had passed by before God moved Moses given to Moses , inspired from heaven, God‘s interpretation written down for our understanding. It through the hearing of Christ’s faith infallibly gives us an accurate account of creation as someone who was there working out His faith.; “ let it be” and there was substance.
Can someone else help us out maybe? Small brain, here. Thanks!
I am sure there is someone else my grammar interest are quite new to this old man.