Iniquity It refers to the wicked quality. Designate evil, perversity, abuse or great injusticethat is, any act contrary to morality, justice and religion.
The word comes from Latin iniquitous, iniquitātis, which translates “unjust quality”, and its synonyms are injustice, evil, infamy or ignominy. In Law, iniquity is understood as excessive rigor in a law, ruling or decision.
Sometimes, due to phonetic similarity, iniquity can be confused with inequity.
Iniquity in the Bible
In a biblical sense, iniquity has existed from the beginning, appearing for the first time in the Fallen Angel: “you were full of iniquity, and you sinned” (EzequielXXVIII: 16).
Iniquity is evil, impiety or guilt, and its gravity is above sin. As such, it is an offense against God, based on ignorance and rejection of the laws of the Lord. In fact, if we look at the ancient Greek version of the Biblewe will notice that iniquity It has been translated from the term ἀνομία (anomia), which means ‘contempt for the laws’, from which it can be concluded that iniquity implies disrespect and non-submission to the authority of God or the law, resulting in another possible meaning. : anarchy.
In iniquity we can recognize the crooked path or the deviation from the right path. Despite his seriousness, Moses, in the Old Testamentproclaims the Lord as “the One who keeps mercy for thousands, who forgives iniquity, rebellion and sin, and who will by no means hold the wicked innocent” (ExodusXXXIV: 7).
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