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|txtha=ἐπαγγελίας, ἡ ([[ἐπαγγέλλω]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[announcement]]: , [[where]] [[ἀγγελία]] [[was]] [[long]] [[since]] restored); κατ' ἐπαγγελίαν ζωῆς τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, to [[proclaim]] [[life]] in fellowship [[with]] Christ, Winer s Grammar, 402 (376); cf. [[κατά]], II. at the [[end]]. But others [[give]] [[ἐπαγγελία]] [[here]] as [[elsewhere]] the [[sense]] of [[promise]], cf. 2below).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[promise]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> the [[act]] of [[promising]], a [[promise]] given or to be given: προσδέχεσθαι [[τήν]] [[ἀπό]] τίνος ἐπαγγελίαν ([[assent]]; the [[reference]] is to a [[promise]] to [[surrender]] Paul to the [[power]] and [[sentence]] of the Jews), ἐπαγγελίας ὁ [[λόγος]] [[οὗτος]], Lightfoot on Galatians , 3:14): [[βραδύνω]], 2); γίνεται τίνι, [[πρός]] τινα, ἐρρήθη τίνι, ἐστι τίνι, belongs to [[one]], ἐπαγγέλλεσθαι [[τήν]] ἐπαγγελίαν ἔχειν ἐπαγγελίας, to [[have]] [[received]], Winer's Grammar, 177 (166)); to [[have]] linked to it, [[εἶναι]] ἐν [[ἐπαγγελία]], joined [[with]] a [[promise]] (others [[besides]]; cf. Winer's Grammar, 391 (366)), ἡ γῆ τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, the promised [[land]], τά [[κατά]] τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, [[born]] in [[accordance]] [[with]] the [[promise]], τό [[πνεῦμα]] τῆς ἐπαγγελίας τό [[ἅγιον]], the promised Spirit, αἱ διαθῆκαι τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, covenants to [[which]] [[was]] united the [[promise]] (of [[salvation]] [[through]] the Messiah), ἡ [[ἐπαγγελία]] [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, given by God, αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι [[τῶν]] πατέρων, the promises made to the [[fathers]], τῆς ζωῆς, τῆς παρουσίας [[αὐτοῦ]], κατ' ἐπαγγελίαν according to [[promise]], δἰ ἐπαγγελίας, a promised [[good]] or [[blessing]] (cf. [[ἐλπίς]], [[under]] the [[end]]): ἀποστέλλειν [[τήν]] ἐπαγγελίαν [[τοῦ]] πατρός μου, the [[blessing]] promised by my Father, περιμένειν, κομίζεσθαι [[τήν]] ἐπαγγελίαν, T Tr WH, προσδέχεσθαι L); λαμβάνειν τάς ἐπαγγελίας, R G); ἐπιτυγχάνειν ἐπαγγελιῶν, κληρονομεῖν τάς ἐπαγγελίας, ἐπιτυγχάνειν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, κληρονόμοι τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, [[λαβεῖν]] [[τήν]] ἐπαγγελίαν [[τοῦ]] ἁγίου πνεύματος, the promised [[blessing]], [[which]] is the Holy Spirit, Winer's Grammar, § 34,3a. at the [[end]]); [[τήν]] ἐπαγγελίαν τῆς αἰωνίου κληρονομίας, [[Demosthenes]] 519,8; [[Aristotle]], eth. Nic. 10,1, p. 1164a, 29); [[Polybius]] 1,43, 6, and [[often]]; Diodorus 1,5; Josephus, Antiquities 3,5, 1; 5,8, 11; 1 Maccabees 10:15.)  

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