πάθος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=πάθους, τό ([[παθεῖν]], [[πάσχω]]), from [[Aeschylus]] and [[Herodotus]] [[down]]; equivalent to [[πάθημα]] ([[which]] [[see]]; (the [[latter]] differs from [[πάθος]] (if at [[all]]) [[only]] in [[being]] the [[more]] individualizing and [[concrete]] [[term]]; cf. Schmidt, Synonym, [[chapter]] 24 § 11));<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[whatever]] befalls [[one]], [[whether]] it be [[sad]] or [[joyous]]; [[specifically]], a [[calamity]], [[mishap]], [[evil]], [[affliction]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[feeling]] [[which]] the [[mind]] suffers, an [[affection]] of the [[mind]], [[emotion]], [[passion]]; [[passionate]] [[desire]]; used by the Greeks in [[either]] a [[good]] or a [[bad]] [[sense]] (cf. [[Aristotle]], eth. Nic. 2,4 (cf. Cope, Introduction to [[Aristotle]] s Rhet., p. 133 f; and his [[note]] on rhet. 2,22, 16)). In the N. T. in a [[bad]] [[sense]], [[depraved]] [[passion]]: [[πάθη]] ἀτιμίας, [[vile]] passions, [[ἀτιμία]]); ἐν πάθει ἐπιθυμίας (in the [[passion]] of [[lust]]), genitive of apposit. (Winer's Grammar, § 59,8a.), SYNONYMS: [[πάθος]], [[ἐπιθυμία]]: [[πάθος]] presents the [[passive]], [[ἐπιθυμία]] the [[active]] [[side]] of a [[vice]]; [[ἐπιθυμία]] is [[more]] [[comprehensive]] in [[meaning]] [[than]] [[πάθος]]; [[ἐπιθυμία]] is ([[evil]]) [[desire]], [[πάθος]] [[ungovernable]] [[desire]]. Cf. Trench, § lxxxvii.; Lightfoot on Colossians 3:5.]