Feryency, feryent

Fervency is found only in Jth 4' ' every man of Israel cried to God with great fervency (iKTiveia [B -/a], which in the same verse is tr ' vehemency,' as it is tr^ in 2 Mac 14*; RV always 'earnestness.' The Gr. word occurs also 3 Mac 6", and in NT Ac 26' iv iKrevdi}., AV 'instantly,' RV 'earnestly'). Knox (Hist. 132) says that after the martyrdom of Walter Mill ' began a new fervency among the whole people ' ; and Works (ed. Laing, iii.

289), ' Peter, in a fervencie, firste left his bote, and yet after feared.' The adj. fervent is twice applied literally in the sense of ' intense,' 2 P 3'° ' the elements shall melt ^vith fervent heat' (/cafffoiJ/zfi/a Xu^^orrac), and 3'" (Ka\i<ioi)i,tva r^Kfrai). 'With fervent heat' (lit. 'being burned up') is the Bisliops' tr°, and is retained in RV ; most of the other VSS have simply 'shall melt with heat.' Cf. Elyot, The Govemour, ii.

322, ' beynge sore chaufed with fervent heate and the lengthe of his ioumay ' ; and Dt 28" Gen. 'The Lord shall smite thee witn a consumption, and with the feauer, and with a burning arae, and ^vith feruent heat.' The word is also applied to cold, as R. Fox, Chron. 116, ' Hit was a fervent coolde weder ' ; Stewart, Cron. Scot. ii. 337, ' The fervent frost so bitter wes.' J. Hastings.