There lies in it the secret of our safety and defence against all distorted use of isolated passages in holy scripture. Only as we enter into the unity of scripture, as it balances, completes, and explains itself, are we warned against error and delusion, excess or defect on this side or the other. The verb means, first, to give, or hand over to another. So, to surrender a city or a person, often with the accompanying notion of treachery. The Rev., therefore, rightly renders, was delivered up.
Death is personified.
This land , whose inhabitants are spiritually dead, belongs to Death as the realm of his government . So, also, in Holland we have the Zuyder Zee. From ajmfi, around, and ballw, to throw. The word is sometimes used by classical Greek writers to denote a garment which encompasses the wearer. Still another word occurs at Matt.