ἀποκαλύπτω: Difference between revisions

|txtha=[[future]] ἀποκαλύψω; 1st aorist ἀπεκάλυψα; ([[passive]], [[present]] ἀποκαλύπτομαι); 1st aorist ἀπεκαλύφθην; 1future ἀποκαλυφθήσομαι; in Greek writings from ([[Herodotus]] and) [[Plato]] down; in the Sept. equivalent to גָלָה;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]], to [[uncover]], [[lay]] [[open]] [[what]] has been [[veiled]] or [[covered]] up; to [[disclose]], [[make]] [[bare]]: Susanna 32; τά στήθη, [[Plato]], Prot., p. 352a.; [[τήν]] κεφαλήν, [[Plutarch]], Crass. 6.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[metaphorically]], to [[make]] [[known]], [[make]] [[manifest]], [[disclose]], [[what]] [[before]] [[was]] [[unknown]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> passages of [[any]] [[method]] [[whatever]] by [[which]] [[something]] [[before]] [[unknown]] becomes [[evident]]: ἀποκαλύπτειν τί τίνι is used of God revealing to men things [[unknown]] (Theod., 22,28; [[τόν]] [[υἱόν]] αὐτοῦ ἐν [[ἐμοί]] [[who]], [[what]], [[how]] [[great]] his Son Isaiah, in my [[soul]], ἡ [[δόξα]], εἰς [[ἡμᾶς]] to be conferred on us); ἡ [[σωτηρία]], ἡ [[πίστις]], [[ἀποκαλύπτω]] (and the [[following]]) cf. Westcott, Introduction to the Study of the Gospels, p. 9f (American edition 34 f); Lücke, Einl. in d. Offenb. d. Johan. 2nd edition, p. 18ff; [[especially]] F. G. B. [[van]] Bell, Disput. theelog. de vocabulis φανερουν et ἀποκαλύπτειν in N. T., Lugd. Bat., 1849. [[φανερόω]] is [[thought]] to [[describe]] an [[external]] [[manifestation]], to the senses and [[hence]], [[open]] to [[all]], [[but]] [[single]] or [[isolated]]; [[ἀποκαλύπτω]] an [[internal]] [[disclosure]], to the believer, and [[abiding]]. The [[ἀποκάλυψις]] or unveiling precedes and produces the [[φανέρωσις]] or [[manifestation]]; the [[former]] looks toward the [[object]] revealed, the [[latter]] toward the persons to whom the [[revelation]] is made. Others, [[however]], [[seem]] to [[question]] the possibility of [[discrimination]]; [[see]] e. g. Fritzsche on Romans, vol. ii., 149. Cf. 1 Corinthians 3:13.)