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Overtake
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or "to lay hold of," has the significance of "overtaking," metaphorically, in John 12:35 (RV, "overtake," AV, "come upon") and 1 Thessalonians 5:4 . See APPREHEND , No. 1.
"to anticipate" (pro, "before," lambano, "to take"), is used of the act of Mary, in Mark 14:8 [see COME , Note (2)]; of forestalling the less favored at a social meal, 1 Corinthians 11:21; of being "overtaken" in any trespass, Galatians 6:1 , where the meaning is not that of detecting a person in the act, but of his being caught by the trespass, through his being off his guard (see Galatians 5:21 and contrast the premediated practice of evil in Galatians 5:26 ). The modern Greek version is "even if a man, through lack of circumspection, should fall into any sin." See TAKE.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Overtake'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/o/overtake.html. 1940.
