[180] The word κοσμος originally signified ornament (chiefly perhaps of dress); figuratively it came to denote order. It was first applied by Pythagoras to the _universe_, from the conception of the order, which reigns in it (Plut., _de Plac. Phil._, ii. 1). From schools of philosophy it passed into the language of poets and writers of elevated prose. It is somewhat singular that the Romans, possibly from Greek influence, came to apply "mundus" by the same process to _the world_, as it had also originally signified _ornament_, especially of female dress (See Richard Bentley against Boyle, _Opera Philol._, 347-445, and Notes, Humboldt's _Cosmos_, xiii.). In the LXX. κοσμος does not appear as the translation of שׂלָמ its spiritual equivalent in Hebrew; but very often in the sense of "ornament" and "order." (See Tromm., _Concord. Gr. in LXX_., 1, 913), but it is found as _world_ several times in the Apocrypha (Wisdom vi. 26, vii. 18, ix. 3, xi. 18, xv. 14; 2 Mac. iii. 12, vii. 9-23, viii. 18, xiii. 14). [181] John xvii. 24. [182] In Hebrew תֵּבֵל habitable globe; translated οικουμενη in LXX. (see Psalm lxxxix. 11). [183] John v. 11. [184] John vi. 31; 1 John ii. 2. [185] John iii. 16. It may be added that these are passages where the _world_ as humanity generally passes into the darker meaning of that portion of it which is actively hostile to God. John xv. 18, 19. [186] See note on ver. 16 at the end of the next Discourse. [187] Gen. i. 31. [188] John i. 3. [189] The writer does not happen to remember any commentator who has pointed out this subtle but powerful thought, παν το εν τω κοσμω--εκ του κοσμου εστιν (1 John ii. 16). [190] 1 John v. 19. [191] John xiv. 1; 1 John iv. 2, 3; 2 John 7. [192] John vi. 51, 53-56; 1 John iv. 2, 3; 2 John 7. [193] ἡ αλαζονια του βιου. [194] Gen. iii. 5. [195] Gen. iii. 6. [196] Gen. iii. 7. [197] S. Augustin., _Tract. in Joann. Epist._ [198] Mark vii. 21. [199] 1 John ii. 15, 16. [200] Ibid. ver. 17. [201] No portion of Prof. Westcott's Commentary is more thorough or more exquisite than his exposition here. (_Epistles of St. John_, 66.) [202] "_Extirpantia verba._" St. August (in loc.). DISCOURSE VII. _USE AND ABUSE OF THE SENSE OF THE VANITY OF THE WORLD._ "The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."--1 JOHN ii. 17.