WORD STUDY: PERFECT
As I was analyzing the passages where our Greek word is translated perfect (or some other related word), I found that it has several meanings. One of its meanings is something does not have any blemish or faults. This is what most people think of, but it is not the main meaning of the word. This word can also refer to someone who in spiritually mature or fully grown. This is why in the one verse it refers to men (verses children). It also has the meaning of something that is complete. There are two different senses to the meaning of complete. One of them refers to something that is done or finished. The other refers more to the sense of not lacking. The word perfect also carries the meaning of something that is fully developed. Next, we turn to outside sources. Here we are told that the word
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This means that the state of perfection Paul is talking about is a state that is possible to reach in this life. Also Paul says to be thus minded. This “thus” refers back to right before this phrase where Paul talks about pressing on, because we have not arrived yet. This means that those who are perfect still have to keep pressing on. Again we turn to outside sources, to help us. The word perfect in verse 15 has the meaning of someone who is mature or full grown. This is the meaning that says that someone is perfect when they are grounded spiritually and have become men instead of babies in Christ. Vine says that the word perfect refers “primarily to physical development, then with ethical import.”1 I found Davidson's New Bible Commentary to have an interesting view about when this perfection can be obtained. It says that “the fulfillment of our end is possible at various stages of experience.”2 This means that a child or a young person can be perfect. This perfection will be different from the perfection of a grown man, but nevertheless it is perfect for their stage of
Perfect: adj. ˈpər-fikt 1. Entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings, is the first definition you find on dictionary.com for the word (perfect). Is this actually possible to attain? Has anyone actually ever been perfect? Or is it all in the eye of the beholder? These questions are asked by almost every girl, as we dream to one day reach the unattainable. This is especially true at the tender age of fifteen, where nothing seems to be going right with our bodies and everything is changing in us. This poem stresses the fact that as everyone realizes how unrealistic this dream is, the knowledge makes no difference to the wish. Marisa de los Santos comments on this in her poem “Perfect Dress”. The use of verbose imagery, metaphors, and the simplistic approach are very effective in portraying the awkward adolescent stage of a young woman and the unrealistic dream of being perfect.
sin and avarice; the Elect could come and perfect themselves, if they were prepared to
Indeed, no person can live forever because our bodies are mortal. Therefore, everyone should seize the chance given in the few years on earth to accomplish his or her desires. Historically, no human has lived past 130 years, except the narrations in the Bible or other religious books. Accordingly, this demonstrates the limited life that humans have, which is prone to a premature end due to diseases, accidents, and calamities. For this reason, the uncertainty of the human life makes it necessary for the people to live each day as their last on earth so that they can strive to perfect the desires, duties, and responsibilities bestowed on them. Furthermore, the completion of the tasks should not be a routine but rather a passion for creating a better environment for the success of
eternal so he is said to be complete perfection. He is also said to be
The words “beautiful” and “perfect” are both vague yet relative concepts as they are defined from person to person. In Hawthorne’s “The Birth Mark,” imperfections perceived by one are also seen as defining in beauty by another. Perfection, as sought by Aylmer, became an obsession which in the end required Georgiana to undergo a process of transmutation to become perfect and therefore a more desirable human being in Aylmer’s eyes. The concept of “bodily perfection” remains the same today as it was in Hawthorne’s time: beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it is who the beholder is that is of greatest importance when determining the value of the opinion being shared. For Georgiana, Aylmer’s happiness, or lack thereof, defined the way in
Moreover, the fact that the reference to the term “Word” in the Gospel is a re...
“The word perfection cannot be defined into one person or one thing. Perfection can only be told or seen in a first person view. No one will genuinely think something or someone is as perfect as another person, it’s impossible to see eye to eye with something that is as powerful and subjective as perfection.” - Jordan van der neut, 2014
she was of pure and perfect form and after he kisses her, his ideal perfect
...ct that they have got to sing with them in heaven or scorch with them in hell some day in the most familiar and sociable way and on a footing of most perfect equality (p. 4).
..., I’d never part with that birthmark.” signifying Aminadab’s awareness of the value that will be lost if the symbol were to be removed. Humans are perfect from creation are born with flaws that foreshadow their finite existence. It is established that what is completely perfect cannot exist in the mortal realm.
... divine law and letting reason govern one’s actions, they can achieve complete happiness. One must not totally disregard temporal goods, but their actions should be based on their goods of the will, not temporal goods.
He tells her "dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect . . . shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection." (para. ) Georgiana is incredibly hurt by her husband's choice of words. Aylmer has managed to con Georgiana into believing that she isn't worthy of his affection, the narrator reveals here that Aylmer's insistence on perfection is insane. In fact, this passage makes it clear that even total perfection wouldn't satisfy him. Georgiana realizes that if she managed to satisfy his demands, her triumph would last only "for a single moment." After that, he would want still more from her. The removal of the birthmark is something of an artificial goal, and the narrator suggests that Aylmer wouldn't be happy even if she'd never had the birthmark in the first place. His lust for flawlessness will never be sated-he has become
“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate
...ience true perfection. Since an ideal can never hold up to a reality, nothing can be truly perfect.
“Seek the life to come by means of what God has granted you, but do not neglect your rightful share in this world. Do good to others as God has done good to you.”