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|strgr=from [[πείθω]]; [[persuasion]], i.e. [[credence]]; [[moral]] [[conviction]] (of [[religious]] [[truth]], or the [[truthfulness]] of God or a [[religious]] [[teacher]]), [[especially]] [[reliance]] [[upon]] Christ for [[salvation]]; abstractly, [[constancy]] in [[such]] [[profession]]; by [[extension]], the [[system]] of [[religious]] (Gospel) [[truth]] itself: [[assurance]], [[belief]], [[believe]], [[faith]], [[fidelity]]. | |strgr=from [[πείθω]]; [[persuasion]], i.e. [[credence]]; [[moral]] [[conviction]] (of [[religious]] [[truth]], or the [[truthfulness]] of God or a [[religious]] [[teacher]]), [[especially]] [[reliance]] [[upon]] Christ for [[salvation]]; abstractly, [[constancy]] in [[such]] [[profession]]; by [[extension]], the [[system]] of [[religious]] (Gospel) [[truth]] itself: [[assurance]], [[belief]], [[believe]], [[faith]], [[fidelity]]. | ||
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|txtha=πίστεως, ἡ (πείθω (which see)), from (Hesiod, Theognis, Pindar), Aeschylus, Herodotus down; the Sept. for אֱמוּנָה, several times for אֱמֶת and אֲמָנָה; faith; i. e.:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> conviction of the truth of anything, belief (Plato, Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch; θαυμάσια καί μείζω πίστεως, Diodorus 1,86); in the N. T. of a conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervor born of faith and conjoined with it: πίστις is called ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις, πραγμάτων ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων); opposed to εἶδος, ἀγάπη and ἐλπίς, πίστις is "the conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things, the provider and bestower of eternal salvation through Christ": πίστις ἐπί Θεόν, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρός τόν Θεόν, by which ye turned to God, τήν πίστιν ὑμῶν καί ἐλπίδα εἰς Θεόν, directed unto God, in) (τῶν θεῶν, Euripides, Med. 414; τοῦ Θεοῦ, Josephus, contra Apion 2,16, 5; cf. Grimm, Exgt. Hdbch. on Sap. vi., 17f, p. 132; (cf. Meyer on Lightfoot on Col. as below; Winer's Grammar, 186 (175))): ἡ πίστις τῆς ἐνεργείας τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ἐγείραντος αὐτόν (Christ) ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν, διά πίστεως, by the help of faith, κατά πίστιν, equivalent to πιστεύοντες, πίστει, dative of means or of mode by faith or by believing, prompted, actuated, by faith, because of faith, πιστεύω, 1b. γ.); α. universally: with the genitive of the object (see above, in a.), Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, Ἰησοῦ, Χρσιτου, τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ, τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, μου (i. e. in Christ), faith in God of which Jesus Christ is the author, advocated by Van Hengel, Ep. ad Romans 1, p. 314ff, and H. P. Berlage, Disquisitio de formulae Paulinae ψιτις Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ signifieatione. Lugd. Bat. 1856); τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, ἀληθείας, εἰς (toward (cf. εἰς, B. II:2a.)) τόν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν, εἰς Χριστόν, ἡ εἰς Χριστόν πίστις ὑμῶν, πίστιν ἔχειν εἰς ἐμέ, Tr marginal reading); πρός τόν κύριον, L Tr WH εἰς) (see πρός, L 1c.; cf. Lightfoot at the passage); unless here we prefer to render πίστιν fidelity (see 2, below); cf. Meyer at the passage and Winer's Grammar, § 50,2); ἐν πίστει τῇ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, reposed in Christ Jesus, τήν πίστιν ὑμῶν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, ἡ κατά τινα (see κατά, II:1e.) πίστις ἐν τῷ κυρίῳ, ἐν τῷ αἵματι αὐτοῦ, πίστις (cf. Winer's Grammar, 120 (114)) and ἡ πίστις simply: νόμος, 3)), L Tr WH brackets τῇ πίστει); οἰκονομία), ἀλήθεια, I:2c.); WH omits the genitive); πλήρης πιστέω καί πνεύματος, πνεύματος καί πίστεως, πίστεως καί δυνάμεως, τῇ πίστει ἑστηκεναι, ἐν τῇ πίστει στήκειν, εἶναι, μένειν, ἐμμένειν τῇ πίστει, ἐπιμένειν, στερεοί τῇ πίστει, ἐστερεοῦντο τῇ πίστει, βεβαιοῦμαι ἐν (L T Tr WH omit ἐν) τῇ πίστει, ὑπακούειν τῇ πίστει, ὑπακοή τῆς πίστεως, obedience rendered to faith (Winer's Grammar, 186 (175)), ὁ ἐκ πίστεως namely, ὤν, depending on faith, equivalent to πιστεύων (see ἐκ, II:7), ὁ ἐκ πίστεως Ἀβραάμ, he who has the same faith as Abraham, ἐκ πίστεως εἶναι, to be related, akin to, faith (cf. ἐκ, as above), δίκαιος ἐκ πίστεως, δικαιοσύνην δέ τήν ἐκ πίστεως, ἡ ... ἐκ πιστηως δικαιοσύνη, δικαιοσύνη ... ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν, springing from faith (and availing) to (arouse) faith (in those who as yet have it not), δικαιοσύνη ἡ διά πίστεως Χριστοῦ, ... ἡ ἐκ Θεοῦ δικαιοσύνη ἐπί τῇ πίστει, δικαιοῦσθαι πίστει, δικαιοῦν τινα διά πίστεως Χριστοῦ, διά τῆς πίστεως, δικαιοῦσθαι τινα ἐκ πίστεως, ibid.; εὐαγγελίζομαι τήν πίστιν, to proclaim the glad tidings of faith in Christ, ἀκοή πίστεως, instruction concerning the necessity of faith (see ἀκοή, 3a.), ἡ πίστις is joined with ἡ ἀγάπη: πίστις δἰ ἀγάπης ἐνεργουμένη, ἀγάπη μετά πίστεως, ἀγάπη ἐκ πίστεως ἀνυποκρίτου, πίστις καί ἀγάπη ἡ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, φιλεῖν τινα πίστει, ἔργον πίστεως (cf. ἔργον, 3, p. 248{b} near the bottom), β. in an ethical sense, persuasion or conviction (which springs from faith in Christ as the sole author of salvation; cf. πιστεύω, 1b. γ. at the end) concerning things lawful for a Christian: πίστιν ἔχειν, the religious belief of Christians; α. subjectively: β. objectively, the substance of Christian faith or what is believed by Christians: τῇ ἅπαξ παραδοθείσῃ ... πίστει ἡ ἁγιωτάτῃ ὑμῶν πίστις, πίστις is rather the form in which the truth (as the substance of right doctrine) is subjectively appropriated"; (cf. Meyer on Lightfoot on Galatians , p. 157).<br /><b class="num">d.</b> with the predominant idea of trust (or confidence) whether in God or in Christ, springing from faith in the same: τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ, πίστιν ἔχειν (πᾶσαν τήν πίστιν (`all the faith' that can be thought of), ἔχειν πίστιν Θεοῦ, to trust in God, ἔχειν πίστιν τοῦ σωθῆναι, to be healed (see Fritzsche on Matthew , p. 843 f; (cf. Winer s Grammar, § 44,4{a}; Buttmann, 268 (230))), ἡ πίστις δἰ αὐτοῦ, awakened through him, εὐχή τῆς πίστεως, that proceeds from faith, πίστις ἐπί Θεόν, faith which relies on God who grants the forgiveness of sins to the penitent (see ἐπί, C. I:2g. α.), δικαιοσύνη τῆς πίστεως (cf. Winer's Grammar, 186 (175)), ἡ κατά πίστιν δικαιοσύνη, fidelity, faithfulness, i. e. the character of one who can be relied on: α.); ἡ πίστις τοῦ Θεοῦ, subjunctive genitive, plighted faith (often so in Attic writings from Aeschylus down): ἀθετεῖν (see ἀθετέω, a.) τήν πίστιν, de ratio usu et constructione vocum πίστις, πιστός et πιστεύειν in N. T. (Traj. ad Rhen. 1733,4to.); Dav. Schulz, Was heisst Glauben, etc. (Leipz. 1830), p. 62ff; Rückert, Com. üb.<br /><b class="num">d.</b> Röm., 2nd edition, i., p. 51ff; Lutz, Biblical Dogmatik, p. 312ff; Huther, Ueber ζωή u. πιστεύειν im N. T., in the Jahrbb. f. deutsch. Theol. for 1872, pp. 1-33; (Lightfoot's Commentary on Galatians , p. 154ff). On Paul's conception of πίστις, cf. Lipsius, Paulin. Rechtfertigungslehre, p. 94ff; Weiss, Biblical Theol. d. N. T., § 82c. d. (cf. the index under the word Glaube); Pfleiderer, Paulinismus, p. 162ff (English translation, i., p. 161ff; Schnedermann, De fidel notione ethica Paulina. (Lipsius 1880)). On the idea of faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews see Riehm, Lehrbegr. des Hebrew-Br., p. 700ff; Weiss, as above § 125b. c. On John's conception, see Reuss, die Johann. Theol. § 10 in the Beiträge zu d. theol. Wissensch. i., p. 56ff (cf. his Histoire de la Theol. Chretienne, etc., 3me edition, ii., p. 508ff (English translation, ii. 455ff)); Weiss, as above § 149, and the same author's Johann. Lehrbegriff, p. 18ff | |||
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