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|txtha=παραδοσεως, ἡ ([[παραδίδωμι]]), a giving [[over]], giving up; i. e.<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the [[act]] of giving up, the [[surrender]]: of cities, [[Polybius]] 9,25, 5; Josephus, b. j. 1,8, 6; χρημάτων, [[Aristotle]], pol. 5,7, 11, p. 1309{a}, 10.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a giving [[over]] [[which]] is done by [[word]] of [[mouth]] or in [[writing]], i. e. [[tradition]] by [[instruction]], [[narrative]], [[precept]], etc. ([[see]] [[παραδίδωμι]], 4); [[hence]], equivalent to [[instruction]], [[Epictetus]] diss. 2,23, 40; joined [[with]] [[διδασκαλία]], [[Plato]], legg. 7, p. 803a. objectively, [[what]] is delivered, the [[substance]] of the [[teaching]]: so of Paul's [[teaching]], Josephus, contra Apion 1,9, 2; 10,2; [[again]], of the [[body]] of precepts, [[especially]] [[ritual]], [[which]] in the [[opinion]] of the [[later]] Jews were [[orally]] delivered by Moses and [[orally]] transmitted in [[unbroken]] [[succession]] to [[subsequent]] generations, [[which]] precepts, [[both]] illustrating and expanding the written [[law]], as [[they]] did, were to be obeyed [[with]] [[equal]] [[reverence]] (Josephus, Antiquities 13,10, 6 distinguishes [[between]] τά ἐκ παραδοσεως [[τῶν]] πατέρων and τά γεγραμμένα, i. e. τά ἐν τοῖς Μωϋσέως νόμοις γεγραμμένα [[νόμιμα]]): [[τῶν]] ἀνθρώπων added, as opposed to the [[divine]] teachings, Lightfoot); πατρικαι παραδόσεις, precepts [[received]] from the [[fathers]], [[whether]] handed [[down]] in the O. T. books or [[orally]], Lightfoot at the [[passage]]). Cf. B. D. American edition [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Tradition.)  

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