μορφή: Difference between revisions

|txtha=μορφῆς, ἡ (from [[root]] signifying 'to [[lay]] [[hold]] of', '[[seize]]' (cf. German Fassung); Fick, Part i., p. 174; Vanicek, p. 719), from Homer down, the [[form]] by [[which]] a [[person]] or [[thing]] strikes the [[vision]]; the [[external]] [[appearance]]: children are said to [[reflect]] ψυχῆς τέ καί μορφῆς ὁμοιότητα (of [[their]] parents), ἐφανερώθη ἐν ἑτέρα [[μορφή]], ἐν [[μορφή]] Θεοῦ ὑπάρχων, μορφήν δούλου [[λαβών]], [[who]], [[although]] ([[formerly]] [[when]] he [[was]] [[λόγος]] [[ἄσαρκος]]) "he [[bore]] the [[form]] (in [[which]] he appeared to the inhabitants of [[heaven]]) of God (the [[sovereign]], opposed to [[μορφή]] δούλου), [[yet]] did [[not]] [[think]] [[that]] [[this]] [[equality]] [[with]] God [[was]] to be [[eagerly]] clung to or retained ([[see]] [[ἁρπαγμός]], 2), [[but]] emptied [[himself]] of it ([[see]] [[κενόω]], 1) so as to [[assume]] the [[form]] of a [[servant]], in [[that]] he became [[like]] [[unto]] men (for angels [[also]] are δοῦλοι τοῦ Θεοῦ, μένει [[ἀεί]] [[ἁπλῶς]] ἐν τῇ [[αὐτοῦ]] [[μορφή]], [[Plato]], de rep. 2, p. 381c., and it is denied [[that]] God φαντάζεσθαι [[ἄλλοτε]] ἐν ἀλλαις ἰδέαις ... καί ἀλλαττοντα τό [[αὐτοῦ]] [[εἶδος]] [[εἰς]] πολλάς μορφας ... καί τῆς [[ἑαυτοῦ]] ἰδεας ἐκβαίνειν, p. 380d.; ἡκιστ' ἄν πολλάς μορφας ἰσχοι ὁ Θεός, p. 381b.; [[ἑνός]] σώματος οὐσίαν μετασχηματίζειν καί μεταχαράττειν [[εἰς]] πολυτροπους μορφας, [[Philo]] [[leg]]. ad Gaium § 11; οὐ [[γάρ]] [[ὥσπερ]] τό [[νόμισμα]] παρακομμα καί Θεοῦ [[μορφή]] γίνεται, ibid. § 14at the [[end]]; God ἔργοις [[μέν]] καί χαρισιν [[ἐνεργής]] καί παντός ὁυτινοσουν φανερωτερος, μορφήν δέ καί [[μέγεθος]] [[ἡμῖν]] ἀφανεστατος, Josephus, contra Apion 2,22, 2.) [ SYNONYMS: [[μορφή]], [[σχῆμα]]: according to Lightfoot ([[see]] the [[thorough]] [[discussion]] in his 'Detached Note' on Phil. ii.) and Trench (N. T. Synonyms, § lxx.), [[μορφή]] [[form]] differs from [[σχῆμα]] [[figure]], [[shape]], [[fashion]], as [[that]] [[which]] is [[intrinsic]] and [[essential]], from [[that]] [[which]] is [[outward]] and [[accidental]]. So in the [[main]] Bengel, [[Philippi]], others, on [[μορφή]] δούλου in Philippians, the [[passage]] cited [[relate]] to the [[complete]] [[form]], or [[nature]], of a [[servant]]; and [[σχῆμα]] to the [[external]] [[form]], or [[human]] [[body]].]