Difference between revisions of "Correction"

<p> [[Correction]] n. L. </p> 1. The act of correcting the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice or propriety as the correction of opinions or manners. <p> All scripture is profitable for correction. &nbsp;2 Timothy 3 . </p> 2. Retrenchment of faults or errors amendment as the correction of a book, or of the press. 3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong as the corrections of a copy are numerous set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet. 4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults punishment discipline chastisement that which corrects. <p> [[Withhold]] not correction from the child. &nbsp;Proverbs 23 . </p> 5. In scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions. <p> They have refused to receive correction. &nbsp;Jeremiah 5 . </p> <p> My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction. &nbsp;Proverbs 3 . </p> 6. Critical notice animadversion. 7. [[Abatement]] of noxious qualities the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects as the correction of acidity in the stomach. <p> House of correction, a house where disorderly persons are confined a bridewell. </p>

<p> ''''' ko ''''' - ''''' rek´shun ''''' ( מוּסר , <i> ''''' mūṣār ''''' </i> , usually rendered "instruction," is translated "correction" in several passages): The verb from which the noun is derived signifies "to instruct" or "chastise." The idea of chastisement was very closely connected in the [[Hebrew]] mind with that of pedagogy. See [[Chastisement]] . the Revised Version (British and American) and the American Standard Revised Version have changed "correction" of the King James Version to "instruction" in &nbsp;Jeremiah 7:28 , reversing the order in the margins. שׁבט , <i> ''''' shēbheṭ ''''' </i> , rendered "rod" in &nbsp;Job 21:9 , is unnecessarily changed to "correction" in &nbsp;Job 37:13 . In &nbsp;2 Timothy 3:16 , επανόρθωσις , <i> ''''' epanórthōsis ''''' </i> , is translated "correction." The difference between correction, discipline and instruction Was not clearly drawn in the Hebrew mind. </p>