ὅσιος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ὅσια, ὅσιον, and [[once]] ([[Plato]], legg. 8, p. 831d.; [[Dionysius]] [[Halicarnassus]], Antiquities, 5,71at the [[end]]; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 11,1; Buttmann, 26 (23); the [[feminine]] occurs in the N. T. [[only]] in the [[passage]] cited); from [[Aeschylus]] and [[Herodotus]] [[down]]; the Sept. [[chiefly]] for חָסִיד (cf. Grimm, Exgt. Hdbch. on Sap., p. 81 (and references [[under]] the [[word]] [[ἅγιος]], at the [[end]])); "[[undefiled]] by [[sin]], [[free]] from [[wickedness]], [[religiously]] observing [[every]] [[moral]] [[obligation]], [[pure]], [[holy]], [[pious]]" ([[Plato]], [[Gorgias]], p. 507b. [[περί]] [[μέν]] ἀνθρώπους τά προσηκοντα πράττων δικαἰ ἄν πραττοι, [[περί]] δέ θεούς ὅσια. The [[distinction]] [[between]] [[δίκαιος]] and [[ὅσιος]] is given in the [[same]] [[way]] by [[Polybius]] 23,10, 8; Schol. ad [[Euripides]], Hec. 788; Chariton 1,10; (for [[other]] examples [[see]] Trench, § lxxxviii.; Wetstein on Trench, as [[above]]; [[indeed]] [[Plato]] [[elsewhere]] ([[Euthyphro]], p. 12e.) makes [[δίκαιος]] the generic and [[ὅσιος]] the [[specific]] [[term]])); of men: οἱ ὅσιοι [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, the [[pious]] toward God, God's [[pious]] worshippers (A. V. [[thy]] Holy One): χεῖρες ([[Aeschylus]] cho. 378; [[Sophocles]] O. C. 470), [[holy]]: Orphica, Arg. 27; [[hymn]]. 77,2; of God in יָשָׁר; חָסִיד, cf. τά ὅσια Δαυίδ, the [[holy]] things (of God) promised to David, i. e. the Messianic blessings, Isaiah 55:3.