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|txtha=(ας, ἡ ([[ἀληθής]]) (from [[Homer]] [[down]]), [[verity]], [[truth]]. I. objectively;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[universally]], [[what]] is true in [[any]] [[matter]] [[under]] [[consideration]] (opposed to [[what]] is [[feigned]], [[fictitious]], false): ἀλήθειαν λέγειν, έ᾿ρειν, εἶπεν [[αὐτῷ]] πᾶσαν [[τήν]] ἀλήθειαν, [[everything]] as it [[really]] [[was]], μαρτυρεῖν τῇ [[ἀλήθεια]] to [[testify]] according to the true [[state]] of the [[case]], λαλεῖν ἀλήθειαν, to [[speak]] [[always]] according to [[truth]], ἀληθείας ῤήματα [[ἀποφθέγγομαι]], as opposed to the vagaries of [[madness]], [[ἀλήθεια]] ἐγένετο, [[was]] shown to be true by the [[event]], ἐν [[ἀλήθεια]], in [[truth]], [[truly]], as the [[case]] Isaiah, according to [[fact]]: ἐπ' ἀληθείας a. [[truly]], in [[truth]], according to [[truth]]: Sept.; [[Philo]], vit. Moys. i., § 1).<br /><b class="num">b.</b> of a [[truth]], in [[reality]], in [[fact]], [[certainly]]: Clement of [[Rome]], 1 Corinthians 23,5 [ET] and 47,3 [ET]); (cf. Winer s Grammar, § 51,2f.; Buttmann, 336 (289)); κατ' ἀλήθειαν in [[accordance]] [[with]] [[fact]], i. e. (according to the context) [[justly]], [[without]] [[partiality]]: [[εἴτε]] προφάσει, [[εἴτε]] [[ἀλήθεια]], ἐν ἔργῳ [[καί]] [[ἀλήθεια]], Rec. omits ἐν; so WH marginal [[reading]]).<br /><b class="num">2.</b> In [[reference]] to [[religion]], the [[word]] denotes [[what]] is true in things appertaining to God and the duties of Prayer of Manasseh, (`[[moral]] and religions [[truth]]'); and [[that]] a. [[with]] the greatest [[latitude]], in the [[sceptical]] [[question]] τί ἐστιν [[ἀλήθεια]], ἡ [[ἀλήθεια]] Θεοῦ the [[truth]] of [[which]] God is the [[author]], ἡ [[ἀλήθεια]] [[τοῦ]] Χριστοῦ, Ev. Nicod., c. 5,2; [[accordingly]], it is [[not]], as [[many]] [[interpret]] the [[phrase]], the true [[nature]] of God ([[yet]] [[see]] Meyer at the [[passage]])); [[truth]], the [[embodiment]] of [[which]] the Jews sought in the Mosaic [[law]], Prayer of Manasseh," opposed [[alike]] to the superstitions of the Gentiles and the inventions of the Jews, and to the [[corrupt]] opinions and precepts of false teachers [[even]] [[among]] Christians: ἡ [[ἀλήθεια]] [[τοῦ]] εὐαγγελίου the [[truth]] [[which]] is the gospel or [[which]] the gospel presents, Winer's Grammar, § 34,3a.); and [[absolutely]] ἡ [[ἀλήθεια]] and [[ἀλήθεια]]: Rec.); ἐν πίστει [[καί]] [[ἀλήθεια]] in [[faith]] and [[truth]], of [[which]] I became a [[partaker]] [[through]] [[faith]]); ὁ [[λόγος]] τῆς ἀληθείας, [[λόγος]] ἀληθείας, [[ὁδός]] τῆς ἀληθείας, [[πίστις]] ἀληθείας, Winer's Grammar, 186 (175)); ὑπακοὴ τῆς ἀληθείας, [[ἐπίγνωσις]] τῆς ἀληθείας, [[πνεῦμα]] τῆς ἀληθείας the Spirit (of God) [[which]] is [[truth]] ([[ἐγώ]] [[εἰμί]] ἡ [[ἀλήθεια]], I am he in whom the [[truth]] is summed up and impersonated, ἡ [[ἀλήθεια]] [[σου]] (Rec.) (i. e. Θεοῦ) the [[truth]] [[which]] is in thee and [[proceeds]] from thee, ἐστιν [[ἀλήθεια]] Χριστοῦ ἐν [[ἐμοί]], i. e., controls, actuates, me, [[εἶναι]] ἐκ τῆς ἀληθείας to be [[eager]] to [[know]] the [[truth]], ἐκ, II:7, and [[εἰμί]], V:3d.); to [[proceed]] from the [[truth]], μαρτυρεῖν τῇ ἀληθ., to [[give]] [[testimony]] in favor of the [[truth]] in [[order]] to [[establish]] its [[authority]] [[among]] men, ἀλήθειαν ποιεῖν to [[exemplify]] [[truth]] in the [[life]], to [[express]] the [[form]] of [[truth]] in [[one]]'s habits of [[thought]] and modes of [[living]], ὁδόν ἀληθείας αἰρετίζεσθαι, περιπατεῖν ἐν τῇ [[ἀλήθεια]]. ἀπειθεῖν τῇ [[ἀλήθεια]] is [[just]] the [[opposite]], πλανηθῆναι [[ἀπό]] τῆς ἀληθείας, II. (subjectively) "[[truth]] as a [[personal]] [[excellence]]; [[that]] candor of [[mind]] [[which]] is [[free]] from [[affectation]], [[pretence]], simulation, [[falsehood]], [[deceit]]": [[sincerity]] of [[mind]] and [[integrity]] of [[character]], or a [[mode]] of [[life]] in [[harmony]] [[with]] [[divine]] [[truth]]: [[ἀδικία]]); [[σου]] [[ἀλήθεια]] the [[truth]] as it is discerned in thee, [[thy]] [[habit]] of [[thinking]] and acting in [[congruity]] [[with]] [[truth]], ἡ [[ἀλήθεια]] [[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ [[which]] belongs to God, i. e., his [[holiness]] ([[but]] cf. [[περισσεύω]], 1b. at the [[end]]), [[veracity]] (of God in [[keeping]] his promises), ἐν [[ἀλήθεια]] [[sincerely]] and [[truthfully]], 1 Thessalonians, Philemon, Jude)). Cf. Holemann, Bibelstudien (Lpz. 1859) 1te Abth., p. 8ff; (Wendt in Studien und Kritiken, 1883, p. 511ff.)