Convince (Hastings' Dictionary)

Certainly in most, probably in all the examples of c. in AV, the meaning is to convict. Job 32" ' There was none of you that convin(ted Job ' (n-:"in, cf. Ps 50-', Pr 30" where EV have 'reprove,' but 'con\'ict' would be better); Job's friends did not try to convince him merely, but to convict him, find him in the Avrong, and that is probably the meanin" both of the Heb. and of the English. In NT the Gr. is either the simple iXeyxa Jn 8** ' Which of you c""" me of sin !

' ; 1 Co 14^ ' he is ce" of all, he is judged of all ' ; Tit I' ' to c. the gainsayers ' (not merely refute in argu- ment, but convict in conscience) ; Ja 2" ' are c'^oi the law' ; Jude''(edd.; TR ('feX^Tx") 'toe. all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds' ; or SiaKaTeX^yxofuit, a compound occurring here only in all Gr. literature, Ac 18^ ' he mightily c"^ the Jews' (RV 'powerfully confuted' ; but from the analogy of other passages it is prob. that St.

Luke means that the apostle brougnt home moral blame to them, not merelj' that he refuted their arguments). Cf. Milton, Par. Reg. iii. 3, ' Satan stood . . confuted, and convinc't' ; and Adams, Serm. ii. 38, ' Whatsoever is written is written either for our instruction or destruction ; to convert us if we embrace it, to convince us if we despise it.'