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Note: Fulness versus Fullness

Notation about the writings of Ellen G. White

Fulness versus Fullness

Definition of the word FULNESS from Oxford English Dictionary ( see below )
according to them FULLNESS is the same word

But the word FULLNESS does not appear in the Bible (KJV) even once
However, the word Fulness appears 25 times

Old Testament: Numbers 18: 17 - - Deut. 33: 16 - - 1 Chronicles 16: 32 - - Job 20: 22 - - Psalm 16: 11 - - Psalm 24: 1 - - Psalm 50: 12 - - Psalm 89: 11 - - Psalm 96: 11 - - Psalm 98: 7 - - Ezekiel 16: 49 - - Ezekiel 19: 7 - -
New Testament: John 1: 16 - - Romans 11: 12 - - Romans 11: 25 - - Romans 15: 29 - - 1 Corinthiams 10: 26 - - 1 Corinthians 10: 28 - - Galations 4: 4 - - Ephesians 1: 10 - - Ephesians 1: 23 - - Ephesians 3: 19 - - Ephesians 4: 13 - - Colossians 1: 19 - - Colossians 2: 9 - -

What is interesting is this difference between Fulness and Fullness in the writings of Ellen G. White when compared with the Bible

Ellen White quotes

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Ps. 16:11. {AG 363.1}

Why is it that many who profess to have faith in Christ have no strength to stand against the temptations of the enemy?-- It is because they are not strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. The apostle prays "that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Eph. 3: 17-19. If we had this experience, we should know something of the cross of Calvary. We would know what it means to be partakers with Christ in His sufferings. The love of Christ would constrain us, and though we would not be able to explain how the love of Christ warmed our hearts, we would manifest His love in fervent devotion to His cause. {OHC 365.3}

So with the followers of Christ. We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self. We can discern the character of God, and accept Christ by faith, only as we consent to the bringing into captivity of every thought to the obedience of Christ. And to all who do this, the Holy Spirit is given without measure. In Christ "dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him." [COL. 2:9, 10.] {GW 57.1}

Galations 4: 4 Fulness of time

And "when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, . . . to redeem them which are under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." {ST, May 17, 1905 par. 11}

Fullness

The law and the gospel, revealed in the Word, are to be preached to the people; for the law and the gospel, blended, will convict of sin. God's law, while condemning sin, points to the gospel, revealing Jesus Christ, in whom "dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." [Colossians 2: 9] The glory of the gospel reflects light upon the Jewish age, giving significance to the whole Jewish economy of types and shadows. Thus both the law and the gospel are blended. In no discourse are they to be divorced.-- Manuscript 21, 1891. {Ev 231.3}

Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
EGW quotes this text using the word “FULLNESS” instead of Fulness

see also Fullness of the Godhead

Oxford English Dictionary
fulness |ˈfoŏlnəs|
noun
variant spelling of fullness .
fullness |ˈfoŏlnəs| (also fulness)
noun
1 the state of being filled to capacity : scores of cans in different states of fullness.
• the state of having eaten enough or more than enough and feeling full : the feeling of fullness you acquire from eating brown rice.
• the state of being complete or whole : the honesty and fullness of the information they provide.
• (in or alluding to biblical use) all that is contained in the world : God's green earth in all its fullness is for the people.
2 (of a person's body or part of it) the state of being filled out so as to produce a rounded shape : the childish fullness of his cheeks.
• (of a garment or the hair) the condition of having been cut or designed to give a full shape.
• richness or intensity of flavor, sound, or color : the coffee is of a luxurious fullness.
PHRASES
the fullness of one's (or the) heart poetic/literary overwhelming emotion.
in the fullness of time after a due length of time has elapsed; eventually : he'll tell us in the fullness of time.

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