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|txtha=δεσπότου, ὁ (from [[Pindar]] [[down]]), a [[master]], [[lord]] (as of δοῦλοι, οἰκέται): [[δοῦλος]]: [[δεσπότης]] [[τῶν]] πάντων, [[δεσπότης]] [[here]] as designating God; cf. R. V. marginal [[reading]]); and whose [[prerogative]] it is to [[take]] [[vengeance]] on those [[who]] [[persecute]] his followers, SYNONYMS: [[δεσπότης]], [[κύριος]]: [[δεσπότης]] [[was]] [[strictly]] the correlative of [[slave]], [[δοῦλος]], and [[hence]], denoted [[absolute]] ownership and uncontrolled [[power]]; [[κύριος]] had a wider [[meaning]], [[applicable]] to the [[various]] ranks and relations of [[life]], and [[not]] [[suggestive]] [[either]] of [[property]] or of absolutism. Ammonius [[under]] the [[word]] [[δεσπότης]] says δεδσποτης ὁ [[τῶν]] ἀργυρωνητων. [[κύριος]] δέ καί [[πατήρ]] υἱοῦ καί [[αὐτός]] [[τίς]] [[ἑαυτοῦ]]. So [[Philo]], quis rer. div. heres § 6 [[ὥστε]] [[τόν]] δεσπότην κύριον [[εἶναι]] καί [[ἔτι]] [[ὡσανεί]] φοβερόν κύριον, οὐ [[μόνον]] τό [[κῦρος]] καί τό [[κράτος]] ἁπάντων ἀνημμενον, [[ἀλλά]] καί [[δέος]] καί φόβον ἱκανόν ἐμποιησαι. Cf. Trench, § xxviii.; Woolsey, in Bib. Sacr. for 1861, p. 599f; Schmidt, [[chapter]] 161,5.] | |||
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