Open (Hastings' Dictionary)

This verb (like aperio and ἀνοίγνυμι) is occasionally used in AV (though the use was then archaic) in the sense of ‘make known,’ ‘disclose.’ Thus Jer 20" ‘Unto thee have I opened my cause’ (πὴ, LXX ἀπεκάλυψα, Vulg. revelavi, Wye. ‘shewide,’ Cov. [wrongly] ‘committe,’ Gen. popes.)

Douay and RV ‘revealed’*); 2 Es 109 “Of these things which have chanced, these are to be opened unto thee’ (hac erant tibi aperienda); 13% ‘The interpretation of the vision shall I shew thee, and I will open unto thee the thing that thou hast required’ (adaperiam tibi); 2 Mac 12% ‘who had opened the things that were hid’ (φανερὰ ποιῶν; RV ‘who maketh manifest’); Lk 24% ‘while he opened to us the Scriptures’ (διήνοιγεν) ; Ac 175 ‘Paul . .

reasoned with them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered’ (d:avolywv) ; He 4 « All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do’ (rerpaxndiouéva,t RV ‘laid open before’), Examples in contempora and earlier writers are frequent: Dt 20° Tind. ‘the secrettes perteyne unto the Lorde oure God and the Ehinges that are opened perteyne unto us’; Is 2! Coy.

‘Morover this is the worde that was opened unto Esaye the sonne of Amos, upon Iuda and Ierusalem’; Mt 1035 Tind. ‘There is no thinge so close that shall not be openned’ (Wye. ‘ schewid,’ Gen. ‘disclosed,’ Rhem. ‘revealed’); 16'7 Tind. ‘fleshe and bloud hath not opened unto the that’ (Rhem. ‘revealed it to thee’); so Lk 2® 10”, Jn 1938 (‘To whom ys the arme of the Lorde opened 7), 1 P 5! [all ‘open in Tind., ‘reveal’ in Rhem.

and AV]; Jn 15 ‘all things that I have heard of my father I have opened to you’ (Rhem. ‘notified,’ Wyc. and AV ‘made knowen’). Cf. Lk 19beading in Rhem. NT, ‘In Iericho he lodgeth in the house of Zachzus the Publicane, and against the mur- muring Iewes openeth the reasons of his so do- ing’; Gosson, Schoole of Abuse (Arber’s ed. p. 27), ‘Chiron was... a Reader of Phisicke, by opening the natures of many simples’; Lever, Sermons (Arber, p.

140), ‘By God’s ordinaunce the scriptures and the preachers of God do open and declare that ye be all synners.’ We have the same use of the adj. in 1 Ti δ᾽: ‘Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment’ (πρόδηλοί εἰσι, Vulg. manifesta sunt). The AV is from Tindale, the RV gives ‘are evident.’ Cf. Ac 2” Wye. ‘ Befor that the greet and the opun day of the lord come’ (ἐπιφανῇ, Rhem. ‘ manifest,’ AV and RV ‘notable’); He 7} Wye.

‘It is opene that oure lord is borun of iuda’ (πρόδηλον ; Tind. and others, including AV and RV, ‘ evident,’ Rhem. ‘manifest’). J. HASTINGS.