μαρτύριον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ], τό,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[testimony]], [[proof]], πρῶτον καὶ μέγιστον μαρτύριον [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] 2.22, cf. Pi.''I.''4(3).10, etc.: freq. in plural, μαρτύρια [[θέσθαι]] [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] 8.55, cf. A. ''Ag.''1095 (lyr.), ''Eu.''485, 797; μετ' ἀειμνήστου μ. Th. 1.33; [[μαρτύριον δέ]]... followed by [[γάρ]], [[here is a proof]], [[namely]]... ib.8, etc.; μέγα τόδε μ.,… γάρ [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]8.120.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[τὰ μαρτύρια]] = [[the tables of the Decalogue]], [[LXX]] ''Le.'' 16.13, al.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[shrine of a martyr]], Aët. 15.15 (a) Z., ''[[Oxyrhynchus Papyri|POxy.]]''941.4 (vi A.D.), etc.

|txtha=μαρτυρίου, τό ([[μάρτυρ]] (cf. [[μάρτυς]])), (from [[Pindar]], [[Herodotus]] down), the Sept. for עֵד, עֵדָה, [[more]] [[often]] for עֵדוּת (an [[ordinance]], [[precept]]); [[most]] [[frequently]] for מועֵד (an [[assembly]]), as [[though]] [[that]] came from עוּד to [[testify]], [[whereas]] it is from יָעַד to [[appoint]]; [[testimony]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[with]] a genitive of the subjunctive: τῆς συνειδήσεως, ἀποδιδόναι τό ... τῆς ἀναστάσεως Ἰησοῦ, τοῦ Χριστοῦ, [[concerning]] Christ the Saviour (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30,1a.): the [[proclamation]] of [[salvation]] by the apostles is so called (for reasons given [[under]] [[μαρτυρέω]], at the [[beginning]]), τοῦ κυρίου [[ἡμῶν]], τοῦ Θεοῦ, [[concerning]] God (Winer's Grammar, as [[above]]), i. e. [[concerning]] [[what]] God has done [[through]] Christ for the [[salvation]] of men, WH [[text]] [[μυστήριον]]); [[with]] the [[subject]]. genitive [[ἡμῶν]], given by us, εἰς [[μαρτύριον]] τῶν λαληθησομένων, to [[give]] [[testimony]] [[concerning]] those things [[which]] were to be [[spoken]] (in the Messiah's [[time]]) i. e. [[concerning]] the Christian Revelation, Riehm, Lehrbegriff d. εἰς [[μαρτύριον]] αὐτοῖς for a [[testimony]] [[unto]] [[them]], [[that]] [[they]] [[may]] [[have]] [[testimony]], i. e. [[evidence]], in [[proof]] of [[this]] or [[that]]: e. g. [[that]] a leper has been cured, εἰς [[μαρτύριον]] ἐπ' αὐτούς, for a [[testimony]] [[against]] [[them]] (cf. [[ἐπί]], C. I:2g. γ. ββ.), ἀποβήσεται [[ὑμῖν]] εἰς [[μαρτύριον]], it [[will]] [[turn]] [[out]] to [[you]] as an [[opportunity]] of [[bearing]] [[testimony]] [[concerning]] me and my [[cause]], εἰς [[μαρτύριον]] [[ὑμῖν]] [[ἔσται]], it [[will]] [[serve]] as a [[proof]] of [[your]] [[wickedness]], Winer's Grammar, § 59,9a.), τό [[μαρτύριον]] καιροῖς ἰδίοις, [[that]] [[which]] (to [[wit]], [[that]] Christ gave [[himself]] as a [[ransom]]) would be (the [[substance]] of) the [[testimony]] equivalent to [[was]] to be testified (by the apostles and the preachers of the gospel) in the times fitted for it, τί [[μαρτύριον]]); cf. the [[full]] [[exposition]] of [[this]] [[passage]] in Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans iii., p. 12ff; ἡ [[σκηνή]] τοῦ μαρτυρίου, Sept. [[very]] [[often]] for אֹהֶל־מועֵד ([[see]] [[above]]), and [[occasionally]] for הָעֵדוּת אֹהֶל, as Leviticus 24:3, etc.