κληρονόμος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=κληρονόμου, ὁ ([[κλῆρος]], and [[νέμομαι]], to [[possess]]), [[properly]], [[one]] [[who]] receives by [[lot]]; [[hence]],<br /><b class="num">1.</b> an [[heir]] (in Greek writings from [[Plato]] down);<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[properly]]: [[one]] [[who]] receives his [[allotted]] [[possession]] by [[right]] of sonship: so of Christ, as [[κληρονόμος]] πάντων, [[all]] things [[being]] subjected to his [[sway]], τοῦ Θεοῦ added, i. e. of God's possessions, equivalent to τῆς δόξης ([[see]] [[δόξα]], III:4b.), Θεοῦ [[διά]] Χριστοῦ, by the favor of Christ (inasmuch as [[through]] him we [[have]] obtained ἡ [[υἱοθεσία]]), for [[which]] L T Tr WH [[read]] [[διά]] Θεοῦ ([[see]] [[διά]], A. III:1) (cf. C. F. A. Fritzsche in Fritzschiorum opuscc., p. 148 ([[who]] advocates the as [[that]] [[reading]] in [[which]] the others [[probably]] originated ([[but]] cf. Meyer, in the [[place]] cited; WH in loc.))); τοῦ κόσμου, of [[government]] [[over]] the [[world]], ζωῆς: αἰωνίου, τῆς βασιλείας, [[one]] [[who]] has [[acquired]] or obtained the [[portion]] [[allotted]] him: [[with]] the genitive of the [[tiring]], τοῦ σκότους, used of the [[devil]], Ev. Nicod. c. 20 (or Descens. Chr. ad Inferos 4,1). (The Sept. [[four]] times for יורֵשׁ: Micah 1:15.)