gospel as pictured in the Old Testament:
Nahum 1:15
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings (basar), that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
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the "gospel" is
... proclaiming peace;
... proclaiming victory over the wicked.
Sample Commentary:
him that bringeth good tidings
announcing the overthrow of Sennacherib and deliverance of Jerusalem. The "mountains" are those round Jerusalem, on which Sennacherib's host had so lately encamped, preventing Judah from keeping her "feasts," but on which messengers now speed to Jerusalem, publishing his overthrow with a loud voice where lately they durst not have opened their mouths. A type of the far more glorious spiritual deliverance of God's people from Satan by Messiah, heralded by ministers of the Gospel (Ro 10:15).
-- Jamieson, Faussett, Brown
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Word: basar (baw-sar')
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Hebrew verb
Strongs number 01319
Number of verses 26
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1) to bear news, bear tidings, publish, preach, show forth
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a) (Piel)
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1) to gladden with good news
2) to bear news
3) to announce (salvation) as good news, preach
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b) (Hithpael) to receive good news
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| gospel as revealed in the New Testament:
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel (euaggelion), which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
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the "gospel" is ...
sometimes supplanted by a false gospel
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or another Gospel which ye have not accepted,
or "embraced"; a better Gospel than had been preached by the apostles, and received by them; which contained more wholesome doctrines, more comfortable truths, more excellent promises, better tidings of good things, than those of peace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation, by a crucified Jesus; proposed a better scheme of things, more for the honour of the divine perfections, and for the comfort and safety of believers; and which laid a better foundation for faith and hope, and tended more to encourage true religion and powerful godliness:
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Word: euaggelion (yoo-ang-ghel'-ee-on)
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Greek noun
Strongs number 2098
Number of verses 77
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1) a reward for good tidings
2) good tidings
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a) the glad tidings of the kingdom of God soon to be set up, and subsequently also of Jesus the Messiah, the founder of this kingdom. After the death of Christ, the term comprises also the preaching of (concerning) Jesus Christ as having suffered death on the cross to procure eternal salvation for the men in the kingdom of God, but as restored to life and exalted to the right hand of God in heaven, thence to return in majesty to consummate the kingdom of God
b) the glad tidings of salvation through Christ
c) the proclamation of the grace of God manifest and pledged in Christ
d) the gospel
e) as the messianic rank of Jesus was proved by his words, his deeds, and his death, the narrative of the sayings, deeds, and death of Jesus Christ came to be called the gospel or glad tidings
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