ἁγιάζω: Difference between revisions

|txtha=1st aorist ἡγίασα; [[passive]] ([[present]] ἁγιάζομαι; [[perfect]] ἡγίασμαι; 1st aorist ἡγιάσθην; a [[word]] for [[which]] the Greeks [[use]] ἁγίζειν, [[but]] [[very]] [[frequent]] in Biblical (as equivalent to קִדַשׁ, הִקְדִישׁ) and ecclesiastical writings; "to [[make]] [[ἅγιον]], [[render]] or [[declare]] [[sacred]] or [[holy]], [[consecrate]]". Hence, it denotes:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[render]] or [[acknowledge]] to be [[venerable]], to [[hallow]]: τό [[ὄνομα]] [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, [[τόν]] Χριστόν, R G Θεόν). Since the [[stamp]] of [[sacredness]] passes [[over]] from the [[holiness]] of God to [[whatever]] has [[any]] [[connection]] [[with]] God, ἁγιάζειν denotes<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[separate]] from things [[profane]] and [[dedicate]] to God, to [[consecrate]] and so [[render]] [[inviolable]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> things ([[πᾶν]] πρωτότοκον, τά ἀρσενικά, ἡμέραν, οἶκον, [[τόν]] χρυσόν, τό [[δῶρον]], [[σκεῦος]], ἁγιάσαι Christ, i. e. to [[have]] selected him for his [[service]] (cf. ἀφορίζειν, ἐξ αὐτῶν ἡγίασε, καί [[πρός]] αὐτόν ἤγγισεν, of his [[selection]] of men for the [[priesthood]]); [[ἁγιάζω]] signifies<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[purify]] ([[ἀπό]] [[τῶν]] ἀκαθαρσιῶν is added in to [[cleanse]] [[externally]] ([[πρός]] [[τήν]] τῆς σαρκός καθαρότητα), to [[purify]] levitically: to [[purify]] by [[expiation]], [[free]] from the [[guilt]] of [[sin]]: כִּפֶר, Pfleiderer, Paulinismus, p. 340ff (English translation 2:68f).<br /><b class="num">c.</b> to [[purify]] [[internally]] by reformation of [[soul]]: ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ in the fellowship of Christ, the Holy One); ἐν πνεύματι ἁγίῳ imbued [[with]] the Holy Spirit, the [[divine]] [[source]] of [[holiness]]); L T Tr WH ἠγαπημένοις ([[which]] [[see]])); ἡγιασμένοι (cf. ἁγιάζεσθαι is used in a [[peculiar]] [[sense]] of those [[who]], [[although]] [[not]] Christians [[themselves]], are [[yet]], by [[marriage]] [[with]] a Christian, withdrawn from the [[contamination]] of heathen [[impiety]] and brought [[under]] the [[saving]] [[influence]] of the Holy Spirit displaying itself [[among]] Christians; cf. Neander at the [[passage]].