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mediator

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mediator  \Me"di*a`tor\,  n.  [L.  mediator:  cf  E.  m['e]diateur.] 
  One  who  mediates;  especially,  one  who  interposes  between 
  parties  at  variance  for  the  purpose  of  reconciling  them 
  hence  an  intercessor. 
 
  For  there  is  one  God,  and  one  mediator  between  God  and 
  men,  the  man  Christ  Jesus.  --1  Tim.  ii 
  5. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mediator 
  n  :  a  negotiator  who  acts  as  a  link  between  parties  [syn:  {go-between}, 
  {intermediator},  {intermediary}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Mediator 
  one  who  intervenes  between  two  persons  who  are  at  variance,  with 
  a  view  to  reconcile  them  This  word  is  not  found  in  the  Old 
  Testament;  but  the  idea  it  expresses  is  found  in  Job  9:33,  in 
  the  word  daysman"  (q.v.),  marg.,  "umpire." 
 
  This  word  is  used  in  the  New  Testament  to  denote  simply  an 
  internuncius,  an  ambassador,  one  who  acts  as  a  medium  of 
  communication  between  two  contracting  parties.  In  this  sense 
  Moses  is  called  a  mediator  in  Gal.  3:19. 
 
  Christ  is  the  one  and  only  mediator  between  God  and  man  (1 
  Tim.  2:5;  Heb.  8:6;  9:15;  12:24).  He  makes  reconciliation 
  between  God  and  man  by  his  all-perfect  atoning  sacrifice.  Such  a 
  mediator  must  be  at  once  divine  and  human,  divine,  that  his 
  obedience  and  his  sufferings  might  possess  infinite  worth,  and 
  that  he  might  possess  infinite  wisdom  and  knowlege  and  power  to 
  direct  all  things  in  the  kingdoms  of  providence  and  grace  which 
  are  committed  to  his  hands  (Matt.  28:18;  John  5:22,  25,  26,  27); 
  and  human,  that  in  his  work  he  might  represent  man,  and  be 
  capable  of  rendering  obedience  to  the  law  and  satisfying  the 
  claims  of  justice  (Heb.  2:17,  18;  4:15,  16),  and  that  in  his 
  glorified  humanity  he  might  be  the  head  of  a  glorified  Church 
  (Rom.  8:29). 
 
  This  office  involves  the  three  functions  of  prophet,  priest, 
  and  king,  all  of  which  are  discharged  by  Christ  both  in  his 
  estate  of  humiliation  and  exaltation.  These  functions  are  so 
  inherent  in  the  one  office  that  the  quality  appertaining  to  each 
  gives  character  to  every  mediatorial  act  They  are  never 
  separated  in  the  exercise  of  the  office  of  mediator.




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