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" Assigning Them Honor"
The apostle Peter observed firsthand the way Jesus dealt with women.
Some 30 years later, Peter gave wives loveing counsel and then wrote: " You husbands , continue dwelling in like manner with them according to knowledge, assigning them honor as to a weeker vessel, the feminine one, since you are also heirs with them of the undeserved favor of life, in order for your prayers not to be hindered. " { 1 Peter 3:7 }
What did Peter mean by the words " assigning them honor" ? According to one lexicographer, the Greek noun translated " honor" ( ti -me') means " price, value, honour, repect."
Forms of the Greek word are rendered " gifts' and " precious. " { Acts 28:10; } { 1 Peter 2:7}
We get insite into what it means to honor someone if we examine Peter's use of a form of the same word at .. { 2 Peter 1:17}
There he said with reference to Jesus' transfiguration: He recieved from God the Father honor and glory, when words such as these were borne to him by the magnificent glory: " This is my son, my beloved, whom I myself have approved. " At Jesus' transfiguration, Jehovah honered his Son by expressing his approval of Jesus , and God did so in the hearing of others. { Matthew 17: 1-5 }
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