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Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 1:2; Galatians 1:4)
•FATHOM (Old A.S. faethm, “bosom,” or the outstretched arms), a span of six feet (Acts 27:28). Gr. orguia (from orego, “I stretch”), the distance between the extremities of both arms fully stretched out.
•FATLING (1.) A fatted animal for slaughter (2 Samuel 6:13; Isaiah 11:6; Ezekiel 39:18. Comp. Matthew 22:4, where the word used in the original, sitistos, means literally “corn-fed;” i.e., installed, fat). (2.) Psalm 66:15 (Hebrews meah, meaning “marrowy,” “fat,” a species of sheep). (3.) 1 Samuel 15:9 (Hebrews mishneh, meaning “the second,” and hence probably “cattle of a second quality,” or lambs of the second birth, i.e., autmnal lambs, and therfore of less value).
A holy fear is enjoined also in the New Testament as a preventive of carelessness in religion, and as an incentive to penitence (Matthew 10:28; 2 Corinthians 5:11; 7:1; Phil. 2:12; Ephesians 5:21; Hebrews 12:28, 29).