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|txtha=[[imperfect]] ἀπέθνῃσκον ([[ἀπέθανον]]; [[future]] ἀποθανοῦμαι, [[θνῄσκω]]); [[found]] in Greek writings from Homer down; to [[die]] ([[ἀπό]], so as to be no [[more]]; (cf. Latin emorior; English [[die]] [[off]] or [[out]], [[pass]] [[away]]); German absterben, versterben); I. used [[properly]]<br /><b class="num">1.</b> of the [[natural]] [[death]] of men: ἀποθνῄσκοντες ἀποθνῄσκοντες [[subject]] to [[death]], [[mortal]], Buttmann, 206 (178)).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of the [[violent]] [[death]] — [[both]] of animals, L T Tr WH [[text]]; ἐν φόνῳ μαχαίρας, ἀποθνῄσκειν ἐκ τίνος, to [[perish]] by [[means]] of [[something]], (cf. English to [[die]] of), ἐν τῇ [[ἁμαρτία]], ἐν ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις, [[fixed]] in [[sin]], [[hence]], to [[die]] unreformed, ἐν τῷ [[Ἀδάμ]] by [[connection]] [[with]] Adam, ἐν κυρίῳ in fellowship [[with]], and trusting in, the Lord, ἀποθνῄσκειν τί, to [[die]] a [[certain]] [[death]], θάνατον [[μακρόν]], Chariton, p. 12, D'Orville edition (l. i. c. 8, p. 17,6, Beck edition; cf. Winer's Grammar, 227 (213); Buttmann, 149 (130))); τῇ [[ἁμαρτία]], used of Christ, '[[that]] he [[might]] [[not]] [[have]] to [[busy]] [[himself]] [[more]] [[with]] the [[sin]] of men,' ἑαυτῷ to [[become]] [[one]]'s [[own]] [[master]], [[independent]], by [[dying]], τῷ κυρίῳ to [[become]] [[subject]] to the Lord's [[will]] by [[dying]], [[διά]] τινα i. e. to [[save]] [[one]], ἀποθνῄσκειν [[περί]] and [[ὑπέρ]] τίνος, [[see]] [[περί]], the [[passage]] cited δ. and [[ὑπέρ]] I:2,3. Oratorically, [[although]] the [[proper]] [[signification]] of the [[verb]] is retained, καθ' ἡμέραν [[ἀποθνῄσκω]] I [[meet]] [[death]] [[daily]], [[live]] [[daily]] in [[danger]] of [[death]], II. tropically, in [[various]] senses;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> of [[eternal]] [[death]], as it is called, i. e. to be [[subject]] to [[eternal]] [[misery]], and [[that]], [[too]], [[already]] [[beginning]] on [[earth]]: Winer's Grammar, 210 (197); 428 (398); Buttmann, 178 (155)), to [[become]] [[wholly]] alienated from a [[thing]], and freed from [[all]] [[connection]] [[with]] it: τῷ νόμῳ, ἀποθανόντες (for so we [[must]] [[read]] for elz ἀποθανόντος) in Winer's Grammar, 159 (150)); τῇ [[ἁμαρτία]], [[ἀπό]] [[τῶν]] στοιχείων [[τοῦ]] κόσμου so [[that]] [[your]] [[relation]] to etc. has passed [[away]], [[ἀπό]] [[τῶν]] παθῶν, Porphyry, de abst. [[animal]]. 1,41 (cf. Buttmann, 322 (277); Winer's Grammar, 370 (347))); true Christians are said [[simply]] ἀποθανεῖν, as having [[put]] [[off]] [[all]] [[sensibility]] to [[worldly]] things [[that]] [[draw]] [[them]] [[away]] from God, ἀποθανεῖν [[σύν]] Χριστῷ, [[συναποθνῄσκω]].)