κρίσις: Difference between revisions

|txtha=κρίσεως, ἡ, the Sept. for דִּין, רִיב (a [[suit]]), [[but]] [[chiefly]] for מִשְׁפָּט; in Greek writings (from [[Aeschylus]] and [[Herodotus]] down))<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a separating, sundering, [[separation]]; a [[trial]], [[contest]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[selection]].<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[judgment]]; i. e. [[opinion]] or [[decision]] given [[concerning]] [[anything]], [[especially]] [[concerning]] [[justice]] and [[injustice]], [[right]] and [[wrong]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[universally]]: [[ἐπακολουθέω]]); κρίσιν κρίνειν ([[see]] [[κρίνω]], 5b.), the [[last]] [[judgment]]: ἡ [[ἡμέρα]] κρίσεως (R L in brackets; τῆς κρίσεως ([[ἡμέρα]], 3; εἰς κρίσιν [[μεγάλης]] ἡμέρας, ἡ [[ὥρα]] τῆς κρίσεως [[αὐτοῦ]], i. e. τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐν τῇ κρίσει, at the [[time]] of the [[judgment]], [[when]] the [[judgment]] shall [[take]] [[place]], κρίσιν ποιεῖν [[κατά]] πάντων, to [[execute]] [[judgment]] [[against]] (i. e. to the [[destruction]] of) [[all]], [[sentence]] of condemnation, damnatory [[judgment]], condemnation and [[punishment]]: ἡ [[κρίσις]] [[αὐτοῦ]] ἤρθη, the [[punishment]] appointed him [[was]] taken [[away]], i. e. [[was]] ended, Sept.; πίπτειν εἰς κρίσιν (Rst εἰς [[ὑπόκρισιν]]), to [[become]] [[liable]] to condemnation, [[αἰώνιος]] [[κρίσις]], [[eternal]] damnation, ); ἡ [[κρίσις]] τῆς γηννης, the [[judgment]] condemning [[one]] to Gehenna, the [[penalty]] of Gehenna, i. e. to be suffered in [[hell]], [[κρίσις]] denotes α. [[that]] [[judgment]] [[which]] Christ occasioned, in [[that]] [[wicked]] men rejected the [[salvation]] he offered, and so of [[their]] [[own]] [[accord]] brought [[upon]] [[themselves]] [[misery]] and [[punishment]]: [[αὕτη]] ἐστιν ἡ [[κρίσις]], [[ὅτι]] etc. [[judgment]] takes [[place]] by the [[entrance]] of the [[light]] [[into]] the [[world]] and the batted [[which]] men [[have]] for [[this]] [[light]], κρίσιν, to [[execute]] [[judgment]], ἔρχεσθαι εἰς κρίσιν, to [[come]] [[into]] the [[state]] of [[one]] condemned, [[κρίσις]] τοῦ κόσμου [[τούτου]], the condemnatory [[sentence]] passed [[upon]] [[this]] [[world]], in [[that]] it is convicted of [[wickedness]] and its [[power]] [[broken]], [[περί]] κρίσεως, of [[judgment]] passed ([[see]] [[κρίνω]], 5a. β. at the [[end]]), β. the [[last]] [[judgment]], the damnation of the [[wicked]]: [[ἀνάστασις]] κρίσεως, followed by condemnation, Winer's Grammar, § 30,2 β.). γ. [[both]] the [[preceding]] notions are combined in ἡ [[κρίσις]] [[πᾶσα]], the [[whole]] [[business]] of judging (cf. Winer's Grammar, 548 (510)), ibid. 22. Cf. Groos, Der Begriff der [[κρίσις]] bei Johannes (in the Studien und Kritiken for 1868, pp. 244-273).<br /><b class="num">4.</b> Like the Chaldean דִּינָא (Gericht) equivalent to the [[college]] of judges (a [[tribunal]] of [[seven]] men in the [[several]] cities of [[Palestine]]; as [[distinguished]] from the Sanhedrin, [[which]] had its [[seat]] at [[Jerusalem]] (cf. Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. § 23, ii.; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, ii. 287)): Josephus, Antiquities 4,8, 14; b. j. 2,20, 5).<br /><b class="num">5.</b> Like the [[Hebrew]] מִשְׁפָּט (cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, iii., p. 1464 b ([[also]] the Sept. in [[right]], [[justice]]: ἀπαγγέλλειν τίνι, a [[just]] [[cause]], [[ἐκβάλλω]], 1g.).