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|strgr=from [[μέσος]]; a [[go-between]], i.e. ([[simply]]) an internunciator, or (by [[implication]]) a [[reconciler]] ([[intercessor]]): [[mediator]]. | |strgr=from [[μέσος]]; a [[go-between]], i.e. ([[simply]]) an internunciator, or (by [[implication]]) a [[reconciler]] ([[intercessor]]): [[mediator]]. | ||
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|txtha=μεσίτου, ὁ ([[μέσος]]), [[one]] [[who]] intervenes [[between]] [[two]], [[either]] in [[order]] to [[make]] or [[restore]] [[peace]] and [[friendship]], or to [[form]] g [[compact]], or for ratifying a [[covenant]]: a [[medium]] of [[communication]], [[arbitrator]] (Vulg. (and A. V.) [[mediator]]): ὁ [[μεσίτης]] (generic [[article]] cf. Winer's Grammar, § 18,1under the [[end]]), i. e. [[every]] [[mediator]], [[whoever]] acts as [[mediator]], [[ἑνός]] [[οὐκ]] ἐστι, does [[not]] belong to [[one]] [[party]] [[but]] to [[two]] or [[more]], [[μεσίτης]] καί [[διαλλακτής]] by [[Philo]] [[also]], vit. Moys. iii. § 19). Christ is called the [[μεσίτης]] Θεοῦ καί ἀνθρώπων, [[since]] he interposed by his [[death]] and restored the [[harmony]] [[between]] God and [[man]] [[which]] [[human]] [[sin]] had [[broken]], [[μεσίτης]] διαθήκης, [[Polybius]] 28,15, 8; Diodorus 4,54; [[Philo]] de somn. i. § 22; Josephus, Antiquities 16,2, 2; [[Plutarch]], de Isa. et Os. 46; [[once]] in the Sept., Job 9:33.) Cf. Fischer, De vitiis lexamples N. T., p. 351ff | |||
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