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ARRIVE

a-riv': Originally a nautical term (Latin: ad ripam) for reaching shore, is used in the literal sense in Luke 8:26, and, in the figurative sense for Greek phthano, instead of "attain to," the Revised Version (British and American) in Romans 9:31.

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Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.