Ensample' and 'example' (both from Lat. exemplum) are both used in AV. Tindale has 'ensample' only, and so all the Eng. versions until the Rhemish appeared. That version used 'example' probably as being nearer the Vulgate word exemplum. The AV frequently reveals the influence of the Rhemish version.
1. ????? 'type, model, example.' 1Co 10:11; Php 3:17; 1Th 1:7; 2Th 3:9; 1Pe 5:3.
2. ????????? 'example, pattern.' 2Pe 2:6.
Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.
if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
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