ἀπολύτρωσις: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἀπολυτρώσεως, ἡ (from [[ἀπολυτρόω]] signifying a. to [[redeem]] [[one]] by paying the [[price]], cf. [[λύτρον]]: [[Plutarch]], Pomp. 24; the Sept. [[Plato]], legg. 11, p. 919a.; [[Polybius]] 22,21, 8; (cf.) Diodorus 13,24), "a releasing effected by [[payment]] of [[ransom]]; [[redemption]], [[deliverance]], [[liberation]] procured by the [[payment]] of a [[ransom]]";<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]]: [[πόλεων]] αἰχμαλώτων, [[Plutarch]], Pomp. 24 (the [[only]] [[passage]] in [[secular]] writings [[where]] the [[word]] has as [[yet]] been [[noted]]; ([[add]], Josephus, Antiquities 12,2, 3; Diodorus [[fragment]] l. xxxvii. 5,3, p. 149,6 Dindorf; [[Philo]], quod omn. prob. [[book]] § 17)).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[everywhere]] in the N. T. [[metaphorically]], viz. [[deliverance]] effected [[through]] the [[death]] of Christ from the [[retributive]] [[wrath]] of a [[holy]] God and the [[merited]] [[penalty]] of [[sin]]: [[ἐξαγοράζω]], [[ἀγοράζω]], [[λυτρόω]], etc. (and Trench, § lxxvii.)); ἀπολύτρωσιν τῶν ... παραβάσεων [[deliverance]] from the [[penalty]] of transgressions, effected [[through]] [[their]] [[expiation]], Romans, vol. ii., p. 178); [[ἡμέρα]] ἀπολυτρώσεως, the [[last]] [[day]], [[when]] [[consummate]] [[liberation]] is experienced from the [[sin]] [[still]] [[lingering]] [[even]] in the [[regenerate]], and from [[all]] the ills and troubles of [[this]] [[life]], ἀπολύτρωσιν τῆς περιποιήσεως, [[τοῦ]] σώματος, [[deliverance]] of the [[body]] from [[frailty]] and [[mortality]], Winer's Grammar, 187 (176)); [[deliverance]] from the [[hatred]] and persecutions of enemies by the [[return]] of Christ from [[heaven]], Hebrews 11:35.