Guile
Guile is the usual translation of (Lat. dolus), which, meant first a bait for fish (Od. xii. 259), and then, in the abstract, wile, craft, deceit. Guile is traced to the workings of that abandoned mind which is itself the punishment, natural and in a sense automatic, of those who reject God (Rom 1:29). The guile which characterized Jacob the Jew as well as Ulysses the Greek was indeed often admired as a national trait by which duller races could be outwitted. But it is one of the unmistakable marks of a Christian convert that he puts away all guile, and, like a new-born babe, desires the milk that is without guile ( , 1Pe 2:2). Henceforth be refrains his lips that they speak no guile (1Pe 3:10). People who are themselves guileful find it difficult to believe that anybody can be disinterested, and St. Paul the Apostle (like many a modern missionary) was often supposed to be cunningly seeking some personal ends. Being crafty, I caught them with guile (2Co 12:16), is a sentence in which he catches up some wiseacres criticism of his actions, and gives it a new turn. His own conscience was clear; his guile as a soul-winner was not only innocent but praiseworthy. His exhortation (, evangelical preaching) was not of error nor (in any bad sense) in guile (1Th 2:3); ho was neither deceived nor deceiver, neither fool nor knave. But he had not infrequently encountered men of the latter type. Bar-Jesus the Magian, who tried to undermine his influence at the court of Sergius Paulus (Act 13:8), was actuated by a mad jealousy, realizing as he did that the position which he had skilfully won was fast becoming insecure. Driven to his wits end, and seeing that exposure was imminent, he felt the ground shaking beneath his feet. His punishment had a Dantesque appropriateness. Full of all guile, he was yet made a spectacle of pitiful impotence; there fell on him a, mist and a darkness, and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand Act 13:10-11).
James Strahan.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
guile
Sin against prudence, being reducible to the vice of prudence of the flesh. It executes, principally by word, deceits conceived by astuteness so as to end in fraud. Its opposite is that simplicity of the just scorned by the wicked, but praised in Nathanael by Our Lord Himself.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Guile
GUILE.See Deceit.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Guile
gl (, mirmah; , dolos): Guile is twice the translation of mirmah, fraud, deceit (Psa 34:13, Keep … thy lips from speaking guile; Psa 55:11, deceit and guile, the Revised Version (British and American) oppression (margin fraud) and guile); once of ormah, craftiness, guile (Exo 21:14); once of remyah, deception, fraud (Psa 32:2, in whose spirit there is no guile); in the New Testament of dolos, bait, hence, generally, fraud, guile, deceit; Septuagint for mirmah (Isa 53:9, English Versions of the Bible deceit) and for remyah (Job 13:7, English Versions of the Bible deceitfully; Joh 1:47; 2Co 12:16, Being crafty, I caught you with guile; 1Th 2:3; 1Pe 2:1; 1Pe 2:22; 1Pe 3:10, quoted from Psa 34:13; Rev 14:5, In their mouth was found no guile, the Revised Version (British and American) after corrected text, no lie).
Paul’s words in 2Co 12:16 have sometimes been quoted in justification of guile in religious work, etc.; but he is not describing his actual procedure; but that which the Corinthians might have attributed to him; the lips of the Christian must be kept free from all guile (Psa 34:13; 1Pe 2:1, etc.; The Wisdom of Solomon 1:5 A holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit (dolos), the Revised Version (British and American) A holy spirit). Guile does not appear in Apocrypha; dolos is frequently rendered deceit.
The Revised Version (British and American) has guile for subtilty (Gen 27:35; Act 13:10); cover itself with guile for is covered by deceit (Pro 26:26); with guile for deceitfully (Gen 34:13); spiritual milk which is without guile for sincere milk of the word, the English Revised Version, margin reasonable, the American Revised Version, margin, Greek belonging to the reason (compare Rom 12:1; 1Pe 2:2); guileless for harmless (Heb 7:26).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Guile
See Conspiracy; Deceit; Fraud; Hypocrisy
Conspiracy; Deceit; Fraud; Hypocrisy
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Guile
“a bait, snare, deceit,” is rendered “guile” in Joh 1:47, negatively of Nathanael; Act 13:10, RV, AV, “subtlety” (of Bar-Jesus); 2Co 12:16, in a charge made against Paul by his detractors, of catching the Corinthian converts by “guile” (the Apostle is apparently quoting the language of his critics); 1Th 2:3, negatively, of the teaching of the Apostle and his fellow missionaries; 1Pe 2:1, of that from which Christians are to be free; 1Pe 2:22, of the guileless speech of Christ (cp. GUILELESS, No. 2); 1Pe 3:10, of the necessity that the speech of Christians should be guileless. See also Mat 26:4; Mar 7:22; Mar 14:1. See CRAFT, DECEIT, SUBTLETY.
Note: In Rev 14:5, some mss. have dolos; the most authentic have pseudos, a “lie.”