Abolish
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
lit., "to reduce to inactivity" (kata, "down," argos, "inactive"), is translated "abolish" in Ephesians 2:15; 2 Timothy 1:10 , in the Rv only in 1 Corinthians 15:24,26 . It is rendered "is abolished" in the Av of 2 Corinthians 3:13; the Rv corrects to "was passing away" (marg., "was being done away"). In this and similar words not loss of being is implied, but loss of well being.
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King James Dictionary [2]
Abol'Ish, L. abolco from ab and oleo, olesco, to grow.
1. To make void to annul to abrogate applied chiefly and appropriately to established laws, contracts, rites, customs and institutions - as to abolish laws by a repeal, actual or virtual. 2. To destroy, or put an end to as to abolish idols. ( Isaiah 2) To abolish death (2 Timothy 1) This sense is not common. To abolish posterity, in the translation of Pausanias, Lib. 3. Ca. 6, is hardly allowable.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): (v. t.) To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; - said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.
(2): (v. t.) To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
a -bol´ish ( חתת , ḥāthath , "to be broken down," "made void," "My righteousness shall not be abolished" ( Isaiah 51:6 ), i.e. as shown in God's faithfulness to His promises; מחה , māḥāh , "to erase," "blot out," "that your works may be abolished" ( Ezekiel 6:6 ) καταργέω , katargéō , "to render inoperative," "bring to nought," "make of no effect," "when he shall have abolished all rule" ( 1 Corinthians 15:24 ), every power opposed to God's kingdom; "having abolished in his flesh the enmity" ( Ephesians 2:15 )): By His death, Christ did away with the race separation due to historic ordinances and ceremonial laws (as of circumcision and uncircumcision); through the cross He wrought the reconciliation, and secured that common access to the Father by which the union is maintained.
"Our Saviour Christ Jesus ... abolished death" ( 2 Timothy 1:10 ). Men still die, "it is appointed unto men" ( Hebrews 9:27 ), but the fear of death as having power to terminate or affect our personal existence and our union with God, as a dreadful stepping out into the unknown and unknowable (into Sheol of the impenetrable gloom), and as introducing us to a final and irreversible judgment, has been removed. Christ has taken out of it its sting ( 1 Corinthians 15:55 ) and all its hurtful power ( Hebrews 2:14 ); has shown it to be under His control ( Revelation 1:18 ), brought to light the incorruptible life beyond, and declared the ultimate destruction of death ( 1 Corinthians 15:26; compare Revelation 20:14 ). The Greek (, katargeı̄tai ) indicates that the process of destruction was then going on.
