ἐπιπροσθέω
τὸ γὰρ μυστήριον ἤδη ἐνεργεῖται τῆς ἀνομίας· μόνον ὁ κατέχων ἄρτι ἕως ἐκ μέσου γένηται. (2Thess 2:7) → For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work — just at work until the one who is now constraining it is taken out.
English (LSJ)
A to be before or in the way, Thphr.Vent.32; of occultations or eclipses, Zeno Stoic.1.34, Chrysipp.ib.2.199, Procl.Hyp. 5.14, al.; but τούτοις ἐ. <ἡ> ἡλίου ἀνταύγεια Ascl.Tact.12.10; μηδὲν ἔχειν τὸ -προσθοῦν τοῖς πνεύμασι protection from the wind, Ath.Med. ap.Orib.9.12.1: c. dat., Hp.Medic.7, etc.; τὸ μέσον ἐ. τοῖς πέρασι stands before, intercepts the view of, Arist.Top.148b27; ἐ. τοῖς πύργοις is in a line with them, so as to cover one with the other, Plb.1.47.2: metaph., ἡ ὀργὴ . . πολλάκις τοῖς καταλαμβανομένοις -προσθεῖ Chrysipp.Stoic.3.95; τὸν χρόνον -προσθοῦντα τῇ γνώσει τῶν πραγμάτων Plu. Per.13; veil, Longin.32.1:—Pass., to be occulted, Theo Sm.p.193 H.: metaph.,ὑπὸ τῶν σαρκῶν -ουμένη [ψυχή] Max.Tyr.15.6; περισπασμοῖς Hierocl.p.53A.; ὑπ' αἰδοῦς Parth.17.3; [τὴντραγῳδίαν] ὑπὸ τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐπιπροσθουμένην obscured, Melanthiusap.Plu.2.41d.
