ἰδιώτης: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἰδιώτου, ὁ ([[ἴδιος]]), [[very]] [[common]] in Greek writings from [[Herodotus]] [[down]]; [[properly]], a [[private]] [[person]], opposed to a [[magistrate]], [[ruler]], [[king]]; [[but]] the [[noun]] has [[many]] [[other]] meanings [[also]], [[each]] [[one]] of [[which]] is understood from its [[antithesis]], as e. g. a [[common]] [[soldier]], as opposed to a [[military]] [[officer]]; a [[writer]] of [[prose]], as opposed to a [[poet]]. In the N. T. an [[unlearned]], [[illiterate]], Prayer of Manasseh, opposed to the [[learned]], the [[educated]]: [[unskilled]] in [[any]] [[art]]: in [[eloquence]] (Isocrates, p. 43a.), [[with]] the dative of [[respect]], τῷ λόγῳ, A. V. [[rude]] in [[speech]]); a Christian [[who]] is [[not]] a [[prophet]], Trench, § lxxix.)