υἱοθεσία: Difference between revisions

|txtha=υἱοθεσίας, ἡ (from [[υἱός]] and [[θέσις]], cf. [[ὁροθεσία]], [[νομοθεσία]]; in [[secular]] authors from [[Pindar]] and [[Herodotus]] down we [[find]] [[θετός]] [[υἱός]] or [[θετός]] [[παῖς]], an [[adopted]] [[son]]), [[adoption]], [[adoption]] as sons (Vulg. adoptio filiorum): (Diodorus 1. 31 § 27,5 (vol. 10:31,13Dindorf)); ([[Diogenes]] Laërtius 4,53; Inscriptions. In the N. T. it is used to [[denote]] a. [[that]] [[relationship]] [[which]] God [[was]] [[pleased]] to [[establish]] [[between]] [[himself]] and the Israelites in [[preference]] to [[all]] [[other]] nations ([[see]] [[υἱός]] τοῦ Θεοῦ, 4at the [[beginning]]): [[υἱός]] τοῦ Θεοῦ, 4): ἀπεκδέχεσθαι υἱοθεσίαν, to [[wait]] for [[adoption]], i. e. the [[consummate]] [[condition]] of the sons of God, [[which]] [[will]] [[render]] it [[evident]] [[that]] [[they]] are the sons of God, Romans 8:19.