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quick = living. Greek. zao. Compare App-170.
powerful. Greek. energes. See 1Co_16:9, and compare App-172.
sharper. Greek. tomoteros. Only here.
than = above. Greek. huper. App-104.
twoedged. Greek. distomos. Only here and Rev_1:16; Rev_2:12.
sword. Greek. machaira. Same word Eph_6:17, but not Luk_2:35. Rev_1:16; &c.
piercing. Greek. diikneomai. Only here.
dividing asunder. Greek. merismos. See Heb_2:4.
soul. App-110and App-170:3.
spirit. App-101.
joints. Greek. harmos. Only here.
marrow. Greek. muelos. Only here.
discerner. Greek. kritikos. Only here.
thoughts. Greek. enthumesis. See Act_17:29.
intents. Greek. ennoia. Only here and 1Pe_4:1. The written Word is a sword (compare Eph_6:17), and the living Word has a sword (Rev_1:16; Rev_19:15). Once, and once only, has God used the word kritikos; thus confining it to His own Word as a "critic". That Word is to be man's Judge (Joh_12:48. Compare App-122and App-177). Yet man claims the word "critic" and dares to sit in judgment on that very Word which is to judge him, in what he terms "higher criticism", which is only human reasoning based on the deceit of his own heart (Jer_23:26). "In the last day" man will be criticized (judged) by the same Word on which he now sits in judgment. "Dividing asunder of soul and spirit" means not only differentiating between that which is begotten of the flesh and that which is begotten of the Spirit (Joh_3:6) in the individual; but also between the natural (Greek. psuchikos) man and the spiritual (Greek. pneumatikos) man. See 1Co_2:13-15.