Persuade

To persuade in AV is not always to ‘convince,’ sometimes only to ‘argue with,’ ‘ try to persuade,’ as may be seen from 1 Καὶ 22 ‘Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also’ (RV ‘Thou shalt entice nim’), and Gal 1° ‘Do I now persuade men, or God?’ See also Ac 19° ‘ Dis puting and ersuading the things concerning the Ἐπ είς of 70d,’ and 28% ‘ persuading them concerning Jesus.’ Neither the Heb. nor the Gr. words so tr. have the full force of ‘persuade’ in mod. English.

That force is, however, contained in the verb rane, which is twice (Ro 4% 145) rendered ‘fully persuade.’ For the Eng. word cf. Knox, Hist. 149, ‘The Earle of Argyle and Lord James did earnestly perswade the agreement, to the which all men were willing: but some did smell the craft of the adversary’; and Fuller, Pisgah Sight, v. iv. 2, «Should these quotations be severally examined, many would be found rather to perswade than prove, rather to intimate than perswade the matter in hand.

’ The old adj. persuasible is found in 1 Co 2*™- for text ‘enticing,’ Gr. πειθός (WH 786s), RV ‘ per- suasive.’ The term. -id/e is properly passive, but was often treated as active: so -iwe, which is properly active, is often passive, as Shaks. As You Like It, ΠΙ. ii. 10, ‘The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she.’ ‘Persuasible’ here is the Rhemish word. Persuasions, meaning ‘efforts to persuade,’ occurs in 1 Es 5% (συστάσει). Cf. Tindale, Exposi- tions, p.

73, ‘When they could not drive the people from him with these persuasions, they accused him to Pilate.’ In Gal 5° (πεισμονή) ‘ per- suasion’ is usually taken to be passive, that which the false teachers have persuaded.