μαρτυρία: Difference between revisions

|txtha=μαρτυρίας, ἡ ([[μαρτυρέω]], [[which]] [[see]]) (from Homer down);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a testifying: the [[office]] committed to the prophets of testifying [[concerning]] [[future]] events, [[testimony]]: [[universally]], [[κατά]] τίνος, [[against]] [[one]], [[μαρτυρέω]], a.), given by — John the Baptist: ἡ [[μαρτυρία]] τοῦ Ἰωάννου, [[βάπτισμα]], 3)) and the [[expiatory]] [[death]] of Christ, [[with]] a [[subject]]. genitive τοῦ Θεοῦ, [[σου]] [[τήν]] μαρτυρίαν [[περί]] [[ἐμοῦ]], Winer's Grammar, 137 (130)); the [[other]] followers of Christ: αὐτῶν, Ἰησοῦ, ἔχειν [[this]] [[μαρτυρία]] is to [[hold]] the [[testimony]], to [[persevere]] [[steadfastly]] in [[bearing]] it, [[ἔχω]], I:1d.); others, [[however]], [[explain]] it to [[have]] the [[duty]] of testifying laid [[upon]] [[oneself]]); [[elsewhere]] the [[testimony]] of Christ is [[that]] [[which]] he gives [[concerning]] [[divine]] things, of [[which]] he [[alone]] has [[thorough]] [[knowledge]], ἡ [[μαρτυρία]] Ἰησοῦ, [[that]] [[testimony]] [[which]] he gave [[concerning]] [[future]] events relating to the [[consummation]] of the [[kingdom]] of God, [[διά]] [[τήν]] μαρτυρίαν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, to [[receive]] [[this]] [[testimony]], Revelation 1:9.

|mdlsjtxt=[[witness]], [[testimony]], [[evidence]], often in plural, Od.; μαρτυριῶν ἀπέχεσθαι to [[refuse]] to [[give]] [[evidence]], Ar.