ἐξουσία: Difference between revisions

|astxt=[[ἐξουσία]], -ας, ἡ (< [[ἔξεστι]]), [in LXX: IV Ki 20:13, Ps 113 (114):2 135 (136)8, 9, Is 39:2, Je 28 (51):28 (מֶמְשָׁלָה), freq. in Da for Aram. שָׁלְטָן, etc., Wi 10:14, Si 9:13, al.;] <br /><b class="num">1.</b>[[prop]]., [[liberty]] or [[power]] to [[act]], [[freedom]] to [[exercise]] the [[inward]] [[force]] or [[faculty]] expressed by [[δύναμις]] (q.v.): I Co 9:12; ἐξουσία ἔχειν, II Th 3:9; id. seq. inf., Jo 10:18, I Co 9:4, 5; c. gen. obj., Ro 9:21; seq. [[ἐπί]], c. acc., Re 22:14; [[περί]], I Co 7:37. <br /><b class="num">2.</b>Later(cf. Milligan, Th., 114; MM, Exp., xiv), of the [[power]] of [[right]], [[authority]]: Mt 21:33, Mk 11:28, Lk 20:2; of Messianic [[authority]], Mt 9:6, Mk 2:10, al.; of apostolic [[authority]], II Co 10:8 13:10; of the [[authority]] of [[government]]: Mt 8:9 28:18, Ju 25, Re 12:10, al.; esp. of [[judicial]] [[authority]], Lk 20:20, Jo 19:10, 11. <br /><b class="num">3.</b>[[Meton]].,<br /><b class="num">(a)</b>[[jurisdiction]]: Lk 23:7 (cf. I Mac 6:11, Is 39:2); <br /><b class="num">(b)</b>a [[ruler]] or [[magistrate]]: Ro 13:1-3; pl., Lk 12:11, Ro 13:1, Tit 3:1; <br /><b class="num">(c)</b>of supramundane powers (syn. [[with]] [[ἀρχή]], [[δύναμις]], [[θρόνος]], [[κυριότης]]): I Co 15:24, Eph 1:21 3:10, Col 2:10, I Pe 3:22, al. (Cremer. 236). SYN.: v.s. [[δύναμις]].