Lithetha ukuthini igama elithi uthando eBhayibhileni? Wathini uYesu?
Igama lesiNgesi uthando lifumaneka amaxesha angama-311 kwiBhayibhile yesiXhosa. KwiTestamente eNdala, Ingoma yeeNgoma (Ingoma yazo iiNgoma) ibhekisa kuwo amaxesha angamashumi amabini anesithandathu, ngelixa iNcwadi yeeNdumiso ibhekisa kuwo ingamashumi amabini anesithathu. KwiTestamente eNtsha, igama uthando lirekhodwa ngakumbi kwincwadi yoku-1 kaYohane (amashumi amathathu anesithathu) ilandelwa yivangeli kaYohane (amatyeli angamashumi amabini anesibini).
Ulwimi lwesiGrike, olusetyenziswe eBhayibhileni, lunamagama amane ukuchaza iinkalo ezahlukeneyo zothando. Ezintathu kwezi zisetyenziselwe ukubhala iTestamente eNtsha. Inkcazo kaFileo yeyokuba ukuthanda abazalwana xa simthanda. I-Agape, lolona thando lunzulu, kuthetha ukwenza izinto ezintle komnye umntu. UStorgay ubhekisa ekuthandeni izalamane zakho. Ligama elingaziwayo elisetyenziswa kabini kwizibhalo kuphela kwaye njengekhompawundi. I-Eros, esetyenziselwa ukuchaza uhlobo lothando lwesondo okanye uthando, ayifumaneki ekubhaleni okungcwele.
Amagama amabini kwesiGrike othando, uPhileyo noAgape, asetyenziswa kwinto eyaziwayo phakathi kukaPetros noYesu emva kokuvuka kukaKristu (Yohane 21:15 - 17). Ingxoxo yabo sisifundo esinomdla sokutshintsha kobudlelwane babo ngelo xesha kunye nendlela uPetros, esazi ngokukhanyela kwakhe iNkosi (Mateyu 26:44, Matewu 26:69 - 75), uzama ukulawula ityala lakhe. Nceda ubone inqaku lethu kwiindidi ezahlukeneyo zothando ngolwazi oluthe kratya kwesi sihloko sinomdla!
Ibaluleke kangakanani le mvakalelo kunye nokuzibophelela kuThixo? Ngenye imini umbhali weza kuKristu wambuza ukuba ngowuphi umthetho omkhulu kunabo bonke (Marko 12: 28). Impendulo emfutshane kaYesu yayicacile kwaye ichanekile.
Kwaye uya kuyithanda iNkosi uThixo wakho ngentliziyo yakho iphela nangomphefumlo wakho uphela, ngengqondo yakho iphela nangamandla akho ephela. Nguwo lo umthetho wokuqala. (UMarko 12:30, HBFV).
Imiyalelo emine yokuqala yomthetho kaThixo isixelela ngendlela emasiyiphathe ngayo. UThixo ukwangummelwane wethu kwindalo iphela (Yeremiya 12:14). Ngummelwane olawulayo. Ke ngoko, siyabona ukuba ukumthanda yena nommelwane wethu kubonakala ngokugcina imiyalelo yakhe (jonga 1Jo 5: 3). UPaul uthi ukuba neemvakalelo zothando akwanele. Kuya kufuneka silandele iimvakalelo zethu ngezenzo ukuba sifuna ukukholisa uMdali wethu (KwabaseRoma 13:10).
Ukongeza ekugcineni yonke imiyalelo kaThixo, icawe yenene kaThixo kukuba nolwalamano olukhethekileyo losapho. Kulapho igama lesiGrike uStorgay ajoyina igama elithi Fileo ukwenza uhlobo olukhethekileyo lothando.
Inguqulelo kaKing James ithi uPawulos wafundisa abo bangamaKristu okwenene: "Yibani nothandano lobubele omnye komnye, nithandane ngokwabazalwane, ngokukhetha kuqala" (KwabaseRoma 12:10). Ibinzana elithi "onothando onobubele" livela kwigreek filostorgos (Strong's Concordance # G5387) obu bubudlelwane obunothando bosapho-lobuhlobo.
Ngenye imini xa uYesu wayefundisa, unina uMariya kunye nabantakwabo beza kuye. Xa waxelelwa ukuba usapho lwakhe luze kumbona, wathi: “Ngubani umama kwaye ngoobani abantakwethu? … Kuba lowo wenza ukuthanda kukaThixo, lowo ngumzalwana wam, nodade wethu, noma. ”(Marko 3:33, 35). Ukulandela umzekelo kaYesu, amakholwa ayalelwa ukuba ajonge kwaye abaphathe abo bamthobelayo ngokungathi ngamalungu osapho asondeleyo! Le yintsingiselo yothando!
Nceda ubone uchungechunge lwethu malunga nokuchaza amagama obuKristu ngolwazi ngamanye amagama eBhayibhile.