quick. living. Greek. zao. Compare App-170.
powerful. Greek. energes. See 1 Corinthians 16:9, and compare App-172.
sharper. Greek. tomoteros. Only here.
than. above. Greek. huper. App-104.
twoedged. Greek. distomos. Only here and Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:12.
sword. Greek. machaira. Same word Ephesians 6:17, but not Luke 2:35.Revelation 1:16. &c.
piercing. Greek. diikneomai. Only here.
dividing asunder. Greek. merismos. See Hebrews 2:4.
soul. App-110 and App-170 :3.
spirit. App-101.
joints. Greek. harmos. Only here.
marrow. Greek. muelos. Only here.
discerner. Greek. kritikos. Only here.
thoughts. Greek. enthumesis. See Acts 17:29.
intents. Greek. ennoia. Only here and 1 Peter 4:1. The written Word is. sword (compare Ephesians 6:17), and the living Word has. sword (Revelation 1:16; Revelation 19:15). Once, and once only, has God used the word kritikos. thus confining it to His own Word as. "critic". That Word is to be man's Judge (John 12:48. Compare App-122 and App-177). Yet man claims the word "critic" and dares to sit in judgment on that very Word which is to judge him, in what he terms "higher criticism", which is only human reasoning based on the deceit of his own heart (Jeremiah 23:26). "In the last day" man will be criticized (judged) by the same Word on which he now sits in judgment. "Dividing asunder of soul and spirit" means not only differentiating between that which is begotten of the flesh and that which is begotten of the Spirit (John 3:6) in the individual; but also between the natural (Greek. psuchikos) man and the spiritual (Greek. pneumatikos) man. See 1 Corinthians 2:13-15.