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|txtha=(ή, ([[frequent]] in [[secular]] writings from [[Plato]] [[down]]; ([[twenty]]-[[three]] times in John's writings; [[only]] [[five]] (according to Lachmann [[six]]) times in the [[rest]] of the N. T.));<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[that]] [[which]] has [[not]] [[only]] the [[name]] and [[semblance]], [[but]] the [[real]] [[nature]] [[corresponding]] to the [[name]] (Tittmann, p. 155; ("[[particularly]] applied to [[express]] [[that]] [[which]] is [[all]] [[that]] it pretends to be, for [[instance]], [[pure]] [[gold]] as opposed to [[adulterated]] [[metal]]" Donaldson, New Crat. § 258; [[see]], at [[length]], Trench, § viii.)), in [[every]] [[respect]] [[corresponding]] to the [[idea]] signified by the [[name]], [[real]] and true, [[genuine]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> opposed to [[what]] is [[fictitious]], [[counterfeit]], [[imaginary]], [[simulated]], [[pretended]]: Θεός (אֱמֶת אֱלֹהַי, ἀληθινοί φίλοι, [[Demosthenes]], Philippians 3, p. 113,27.)<br /><b class="num">b.</b> it contrasts realities [[with]] [[their]] semblances: [[σκηνή]], ὁ [[ἵππος]] contrasted [[with]] ὁ ἐν τῇ εἰκόνι, Aelian v. h. 2,3.)<br /><b class="num">c.</b> opposed to [[what]] is [[imperfect]], [[defective]], [[frail]], [[uncertain]]: [[φῶς]], [[κρίσις]], L T Tr WH; κρίσεις, [[ἄρτος]], as [[nourishing]] the [[soul]] [[unto]] [[life]] [[everlasting]], [[ἄμπελος]], [[μαρτυρία]] [[μάρτυς]], [[δεσπότης]], ὁδοί, [[πιστός]], τό [[ἀληθινόν]] the [[genuine]], [[real]] [[good]], opposed to [[external]] [[riches]], [[οἷς]] [[μέν]] [[γάρ]] [[ἀληθινός]] [[πλοῦτος]] οὐρανῷ, [[Philo]] de praem, et poen. § 17, p. 425, Mang. edition; cf. Wetstein (1752) on Luke, the [[passage]] cited); ά᾿θληται, [[Polybius]] 1,6, 6).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> equivalent to [[ἀληθής]], true, [[veracious]], [[sincere]], ([[often]] so in the Sept.): [[καρδία]], μετ' ἀληθείας ἐν [[καρδία]] ἀληθινή, λόγοι, Rev. ( [[Plutarch]], apoph, p. 184e.). (Cf. Cremer, 4te Aufi. [[under]] the [[word]] [[ἀλήθεια]].)