Genesis 2v18

[Anthony]

Someexamples of "anti"...Luke 11v11 Here "anti" =instead of,substitution. The serpent is substituted for the fish...1 Tim 2v6 antilytron=again substitution, Christ pays what we could not...1 John 2v18 antichristos signifies an opponent to the Messiah. .Heb 6v16 antilogias=dispute, strife, antagonism. .Luke 1v54 "antelabeto" being translated in the E.S.V. as "He has helped His servant Israel", has neither substitution nor antagonism. So what is the force of "ante" here?

The meaning of lambano Strong 2983 is 'to take' or to 'lay hold'. The prefix anti- in Greek Strong 473 has the force of 'over against' 'opposite' or 'in correspondence'. The meaning is not the same as our 'anti-' prefix in English.

And he has done so 'as He spoke to our fathers'. God spoke to the fathers, and what God said was 'to Abraham and his seed for ever'. That was the promise. That God's mercy was 'to Abraham and to his seed for ever'.

But Mary's meaning has a subtlety which I think does not warrant the idea of 'substitution' in this place. My own understanding of Mary's meaning is that she is referring to the conception (which had been announced to her). For 'sunlambano' is the word that Gabriel had used to herald the conception.

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