Not Ashamed

(ESV)

For

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek

Idiot, the (from the Gk. ἰδιώτης, a private person, one of no special skill), the pseudonym used by a medieval spiritual writer generally identified as Raymundus Jordanus, a French Canon Regular of St Augustine and Abbot of Selles-sur-Cher, who flourished c. 1381. A collected edition of his devotional works in Latin, which were very popular in the Middle Ages, was published in 1654 by Théophile Raynaud, SJ, who first made the identification. The word ‘idiot’ long retained its original meaning in English; in 1657 some writings of Dame Gertrude *More, OSB (1606–33) were pub. at Paris under the title ‘The Holy Practices of a Divine Lover, or, the Sainctly Idiots Devotions’.

ODCC

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes...

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

✪ ἀνόητος, ον, not thought on, unheard of, ἄφραστʼ ἠδʼ ἀνόητα h.Merc.80.

LSJ

persecution; not very public with their faith.

Paul didn’t care because there was power in the gospel.

485 ἀνόητος (anoētos), ον (on): adj.; ≡ Str 453; TDNT 4.961—LN 32.50 without understanding, foolish, senseless (; ; , ; ; +)

DBL Greek

Paul’s was a terrible person before Jesus

the foolish ESV, NIV, RSV, CSB to the foolish NASB95, NRSV, LEB to the unwise KJV 1900, AV 1873 insipientibus VGCLEM to unwise NKJV uneducated NLT

The gospel changed him

We live in a similar world.

Text Comparison

ἀνοήτοις anoētois

It’s not popular.

ἀνόητος anoētosunintelligent; foolish

The gospel still changes sinners.

νους nous mind

JDPM adjective, dative, plural, masculine

G453 Greek Strong’s

We often live like we are ashamed of the gospel and are proud of our sin.

You may say you aren’t ashamed but does your lifestyle highlight God or sin?

LN 32.50 Louw-Nida

We put sin on display.

There’s an entire movement called pride month.

mindless person noun

We brag in the locker room about what’s happened in the bedroom.

Letter, Community Romans

Opening 1:1–15

We say we aren’t ashamed but our lifestyle denies that.

But this is scary.

(ESV)

Prayer of Thanksgiving 8–15

32 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, 33 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

Figure of Speech Description: Inversion Name: Epanodos

Figure of Speech Description: Dialogue Name: Antimetathesis

How are you going to live this year?

Figure of Speech Description: Digression Name: Parecbasis

Figure of Speech Name: Correspondence

Subordinate clause emphasis—Describes the placement of what is most important within a subordinate clause in a position of prominence when the subordinate clause occurs on the same propositional level as the main clause that governs it. The scope of the emphasis is limited to the subordinate clause in which it occurs. See the Introduction for further discussion on Subordinate Clause Emphasis.

LDGNT Glossary

Thematic Addition—The use of καὶ as an adverb (instead of as a conjunction) to create a connection between two things, essentially ‘adding’ the current element to some preceding parallel element. Thematic addition is generally translated in English using ‘also’ or ‘too’. Thematic addition can also be used to indicate confirmation of something, which is generally translated in English using ‘even’. Cf. Levinsohn (2000:100). See the Introduction for further discussion on Thematic Addition.

LDGNT Glossary

Main clause emphasis—Describes the movement of the most important element(s) of the main clause on a given propositional level to a position of prominence in order to attract extra attention to it using a change in word order. The scope of the emphasis extends over the main clause on the same level of the discourse outline. See the Introduction for further discussion on Main Clause Emphasis.

LDGNT Glossary

Sentence—One or more clauses that have a coordinate relationship to the preceding discourse. Sentences which begin a speech reported within the discourse are labeled as ‘sentences’, but are indented one level in the outline to reflect that they are technically dependent upon (i.e. subordinate to) the verb of speaking that introduces them. Sentences are coordinated to the preceding discourse using καὶ, δὲ, or asyndeton (the absence of a conjunction).

LDGNT Glossary

Syllable Graphemes: α-νο-η-τοισ Count: 4

Syllable Grapheme: α Count: 4 Position: 1

Syllable Grapheme: νο Count: 4 Position: 2

Syllable Grapheme: η Count: 4 Position: 3

Syllable Grapheme: τοισ Count: 4 Position: 4

Accent Name: Paroxytone Position: Penult Type: Acute

Figurative Language Category: Metonymy Source: Foolish Target: Uneducated Type: Foolish as Uneducated

Colwell's Rule Grammatical Constructions

Longacre Genre Primary: Expository: What things are or were like

Semantic Feature Category: Condition

“foolish” refers to:

People — Any people or group of people.

Church: Fellowship and Unity, Debt, Encouragement, Evangelism, Faith, Foolishness, Gospel, Guidance, Holy Spirit: Gifts, Prayer: Petition, Service, Thankfulness, Wisdom

d [, ]; See

I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord.

I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.

For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

e ,

For the word •of the cross is folly •to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

f ch. 2:9; See

There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

g []; See

Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

The •Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him•? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

h ch. 3:21; [; ]

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—