κακία: Difference between revisions

|txtha=κακίας, ἡ ([[κακός]]) (from [[Theognis]] down), the Sept. [[chiefly]] for רַע, and רָעָה;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[malignity]], [[malice]], [[ill]]-[[will]], [[desire]] to [[injure]]: [[wickedness]], [[depravity]]: Winer's Grammar, 120 (114)); [[evil]], [[trouble]]: SYNONYMS: [[κακία]], [[πονηρία]]: associated Trench, Synonyms, § xi., endorsed by Ellicott (on Lightfoot (on [[κακία]] denotes [[rather]] the [[vicious]] [[disposition]], [[πονηρία]] the [[active]] [[exercise]] of the [[same]]; cf. [[Xenophon]], mem. 1,2, 28 εἰ [[μέν]] [[αὐτός]] (i. e. [[Σωκράτης]]) ἐποίει τί φαῦλον, [[εἰκότως]] ἄν ἐδόκει [[πονηρός]] [[εἶναι]]. Αἰ δ' [[αὐτός]] σωφρονων διετελει, [[πῶς]] ἄν [[δικαίως]] τῆς [[οὐκ]] ἐνούσης [[αὐτῷ]] κακίας αἰτίαν ἔχοι; But Fritzsche, Meyer (on Romans, the [[passage]] cited; [[yet]] cf. Weiss in edition 6), others [[dissent]] — [[seeming]] [[nearly]] to [[reverse]] [[this]] [[distinction]]; cf. Suidas [[under]] the [[word]] [[κακία]]. Ἔστιν ἡ τοῦ κακῶσαι [[τόν]] [[πέλας]] [[σπουδή]], [[παρά]] τῷ ἀποστόλω; [[see]] [[πονηρός]], 2b.]