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KOSMOS: the totality of existence. 
Meanwhile, ``world'' has come to mean merely earthly human concerns. See the Glossary.
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\section{Cosmos}
KOSMOS "Cosmos". Before N.T. times, KOSMOS means 'order', 'adornment' — our word 'cosmetic' derives 
from it — and that sense of orderliness persists as late as the Septuagint (the 3rd century BCE 
translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek). By 
N.T. times the word had broadened to mean the ordered whole of reality: 'the world', the 'cosmos' 
as we now understand it. Even so, the root sense of orderliness is never fully absent.
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Usage varies by author. In Paul and the Synoptics, KOSMOS is largely neutral: the inhabited earth, 
humanity at large, the created order (e.g. Romans 1:20, where the KOSMOS itself displays God's 
attributes). In John's Gospel and letters, however, KOSMOS takes on a sharper, adversarial edge: 
the ordered system of human affairs considered in its estrangement from God, arrayed against the 
LOGOS that in fact orders it (John 1:10, 15:18-19; 1 John 2:15-17). This Johannine usage draws on 
a wider Hellenistic (particularly Stoic) idea of the LOGOS as the rational principle ordering the 
cosmos — an idea John baptizes and personalizes in his prologue, but which is not the general sense 
of KOSMOS across the N.T. as a whole.
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