The idea of ‘gaining the whole world’ while ‘losing your own soul’ crossed my mind as I struggled to work through a concordance search on the biblical words translated ‘world’ and related words and concepts. It was a most illuminating exercise, however. The first and most startling thing that struck me (and it is very easily visible in any search on ‘the world’ as an English translation), was the immediate contrast between the ‘flavour’ of most of the references to ‘the world’ in the Psalms, and that of most of the occurrences of ‘the world’ in John’s gospel and first epistle. It is stark, and immediately opens up for us the essential double sense of the word in the Bible as a whole.
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The World in the Bible on the Lausanne Movement website.
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