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|txtha=2nd aorist [[middle]] προεθέμην; (from [[Homer]] [[down]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[place]] [[before]], to [[set]] [[forth]] (cf. [[πρό]], d. ἆ.); [[specifically]], to [[set]] [[forth]] to be looked at, [[expose]] to [[view]]: Aelian v. h. 14,8; and [[often]] in the [[middle]] in [[this]] [[sense]]: ποτήρια ἀργυρεα τέ καί χρυσεα, his [[own]] cups, [[Herodotus]] 3,148; to [[expose]] to [[public]] [[view]], in [[which]] [[sense]] it is the [[technical]] [[term]] [[with]] [[profane]] authors in [[speaking]] of the bodies of the [[dead]] (to [[let]] [[lie]] in [[state]]) (cf. Passow, [[under]] the [[word]], I:2; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], II:1); Stallbaum on [[Plato]], [[Phaedo]], p. 115e.; (Krüger on [[Thucydides]] 2,34, 1)); the [[middle]] points to the [[owner]] of the [[thing]] [[exposed]]: so [[with]] τινα and a [[predicate]] accusative. [[set]] [[forth]]; cf. 8:32).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> Middle to [[set]] [[before]] [[oneself]], [[propose]] to [[oneself]]; to [[purpose]], [[determine]] ([[Plato]], [[Polybius]], others): followed by the infinitive ἐν [[αὐτῷ]] (sic); [[see]] [[αὑτοῦ]]) added, in [[himself]] (Winer's Grammar, § 38,6; (cf. p. 152 (144))), ἐν [[αὐτῷ]] [[with]] L T Tr WH) [[render]] 'in him,' i. e. ([[probably]]) Christ).

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