φιλοσοφία: Difference between revisions

|txtha=φιλοσοφίας, ἡ (from [[φιλόσοφος]]), [[properly]], [[love]] (and [[pursuit]]) of [[wisdom]]; used in the Greek writings of [[either]] [[zeal]] for or [[skill]] in [[any]] [[art]] or [[science]], [[any]] [[branch]] of [[knowledge]], [[see]] Passow, [[under]] the [[word]] (cf. Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]]). Once in the N. T. of the [[theology]], or [[rather]] theosophy, of [[certain]] Jewish-Christian ascetics, [[which]] busied itself [[with]] [[refined]] and [[speculative]] inquiries [[into]] the [[nature]] and classes of angels, [[into]] the [[ritual]] of the Mosaic [[law]] and the regulations of Jewish [[tradition]] [[respecting]] [[practical]] [[life]]: Lightfoot on Colossians, the [[passage]] cited, and Prof. Westcott in B. D., [[under]] the [[word]] Philosophy).