ἐκκλησία: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἐκκλεσιας, ἡ (from [[ἔκκλητος]] called [[out]] or [[forth]], and [[this]] from [[ἐκκαλέω]]); [[properly]], a [[gathering]] of citizens called [[out]] from [[their]] homes [[into]] [[some]] [[public]] [[place]]; an [[assembly]]; so used<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[among]] the Greeks from [[Thucydides]] (cf. [[Herodotus]] 3,142) [[down]], an [[assembly]] of the [[people]] convened at the [[public]] [[place]] of [[council]] for the [[purpose]] of deliberating: Sept. [[often]] equivalent to קָהָל, the [[assembly]] of the Israelites, [[any]] [[gathering]] or [[throng]] of men [[assembled]] by [[chance]] or [[tumultuously]]: an [[assembly]] of Christians gathered for [[worship]]: ἐν [[ἐκκλησία]], in the [[religious]] [[meeting]], ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις, συνέρχεσθαι ἐν [[ἐκκλησία]], Winer's Grammar, § 50,4a.<br /><b class="num">b.</b> a [[company]] of Christians, or of those [[who]], hoping for [[eternal]] Salvation [[through]] Jesus Christ, [[observe]] [[their]] [[own]] [[religious]] rites, [[hold]] [[their]] [[own]] [[religious]] meetings, and [[manage]] [[their]] [[own]] affairs according to regulations prescribed for the [[body]] for [[order]]'s [[sake]]; aa. those [[who]] [[anywhere]], in [[city]] or [[village]], [[constitute]] [[such]] a [[company]] and are united [[into]] [[one]] [[body]]: Winer's Grammar, 122 (116)); [[with]] specification of [[place]], Θεσσαλονικέων, Λαοδικέων, [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ (equivalent to יְהוָה קֲהַל, αἱ ἐκκλησίαι: [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ added, [[τοῦ]] Χριστοῦ, τῆς Ἀσίας, Γαλατίας, etc.: τῆς Ἰουδαίας ταῖς ἐν Χριστῷ, joined to Christ ([[see]] ἐν, I:6b.), i. e. Christian assemblies, in [[contrast]] [[with]] those of the Jews, ἐκκλησίαι [[τῶν]] ἐθνῶν, gathered from the Gentiles, [[τῶν]] ἁγίων, [[composed]] of the saints, ἡ [[ἐκκλησία]] κατ' οἶκον τίνος, the [[church]] in [[one]]'s [[house]], i. e. the [[company]] of Christians belonging to a [[person]]'s [[family]]; others [[less]] [[aptly]] [[understand]] the [[phrase]] of the Christians [[accustomed]] to [[meet]] for [[worship]] in the [[house]] of [[someone]] (for as appears from Lightfoot on ἡ [[ἐκκλησία]] is used [[even]] by Christ [[while]] on [[earth]] of the [[company]] of his adherents in [[any]] [[city]] or [[village]]: [[τήν]] ἐκκλησίαν [[although]] Christ [[may]] [[have]] said [[τήν]] βασιλείαν μου); [[τοῦ]] κυρίου, R Tr marginal [[reading]] WH [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ); [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, [[ἀπογράφω]], b. and [[πρωτότοκος]], at the [[end]]). (In [[general]], [[see]] Trench, § 1, and B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Church, [[especially]] American edition; and for patristic [[usage]] [[Sophocles]] Lexicon, [[under]] the [[word]].)