Robbery in Easton's Bible Dictionary
Practised by the Ishmaelites (Gen. 16:12), the Chaldeans and
Sabeans (Job 1:15, 17), and the men of Shechem
(Judg. 9:25. See
also 1 Sam. 27:6-10; 30; Hos. 4:2; 6:9). Robbers
infested Judea
in our Lord's time (Luke 10:30; John 18:40; Acts
5:36, 37;
21:38; 2 Cor. 11:26). The words of the Authorized
Version,
"counted it not robbery to be equal," etc. (Phil.
2:6, 7), are
better rendered in the Revised Version, "counted it
not a prize
to be on an equality," etc., i.e., "did not look
upon equality
with God as a prize which must not slip from his
grasp" = "did
not cling with avidity to the prerogatives of his
divine
majesty; did not ambitiously display his equality
with God."
"Robbers of churches" should be rendered, as in the
Revised
Version, "of temples." In the temple at Ephesus
there was a
great treasure-chamber, and as all that was laid up
there was
under the guardianship of the goddess Diana, to
steal from such
a place would be sacrilege (Acts 19:37).
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