Part Three
Theology Proper: 18 THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
Theology Proper: 18 THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
On
the other hand, agape is the distinctive word for the attribute of God,
and Cremer remarks:
It denotes the love which chooses its object with
decision of will... so that it becomes self-denying or compassionate devotion
to and for the same .... In the form of such energetic good-will or
self-sacrifice, love appears, indeed, as an isolated trait in profane writers;
but it was unknown to them as a ruling principle of life.
Now, we find agape used to designate a love unknown
to writers outside of the New Testament... --love in its fullest conceivable
form; love as it is the distinguishing attribute, not of humanity, but, in
the strictest sense, of Divinity.8
8 Herman
Cremer, Biblio-Theological Lexicon of New Testament Greek (Edinburgh: T. and T.
Clark, reprinted 1954), p. 14.
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