Difference between revisions of "Pollution"

<p> (ἀλίσγημα, only found as noon in &nbsp;Acts 15:20; as verb in &nbsp;Daniel 1:8, &nbsp;Malachi 1:7; &nbsp;Malachi 1:12, &nbsp;Sirach 40:29 [LXX_]) </p> <p> ἀλίσγημα is probably from a root meaning ‘smear with fat or blood’ (cf. ἀλίνειν, Lat. linere), and is therefore a natural word for [[Jews]] to use of idol offerings (&nbsp;Leviticus 3:17). It is a real ‘Jewish Greek’ word, very rare, and is a translation of (gâ’al, root-meaning ‘loathe,’ afterwards ‘pollute’). Possibly it is also a partial transliteration of âÌÈàÅi, combining this and the Greek root ἀλιν-. It would then be a similar formation to Eng.-Fr. ‘crayfish,’ ‘Rotten Row’ (for instances of this principle see F. J. A. Hort, 1 Peter I. 1-II. 17, 1898, p. 77, LXX_ translation of &nbsp;Jeremiah 9:5, A. Edersheim, LT_4 i. 448, n._ 3; cf. also ἀγαπή as a sound- as well as sense-translation of àÇäÂáÈä). This would make St. James use a peculiarly biting word, ‘a loathed smearing.’ Its use in the LXX_ suggests also that it referred to the ordinary food of [[Gentiles]] (&nbsp;Daniel 1:8, &nbsp;Sirach 40:29) as well as to idol offerings. The [[Council]] did not adopt it, and changed it to the more colourless εἰδωλόθυτον, ‘idol offering,’ wishing perhaps to avoid a racial word which might suggest a separation in the matter of ordinary food between Jew and Gentile, such as afterwards actually happened (&nbsp;Galatians 2:9) under the influence of those who ‘came from James.’ </p> <p> Literature.-R. J. Knowling, in EGT_, ‘Acts,’ 1900, p. 324; Conybeare-Howson, The Life and [[Epistles]] of St. Paul, new ed., 1889, ch. vii. esp. pp. 162, 172. </p> <p> Sherwin Smith. </p>

<p> POLLU'TION, n. L. pollutio. </p> 1. The act of polluting. 2. Defilement uncleanness impurity the state of being polluted. 3. In the [[Jewish]] economy, legal or ceremonial uncleanness, which disqualified a person for sacred services or for common intercourse with the people, or rendered any thing unfit for sacred use. 4. In medicine, the involuntary emission of semen in sleep. 5. In a religious sense, guilt,the effect of sin idolatry, &c.