θέλημα: Difference between revisions

|txtha=θελήματος, τό ([[θέλω]]), a [[word]] [[purely]] Biblical and ecclesiastical ([[yet]] [[found]] in [[Aristotle]], de [[plant]]. 1,1, p. 815b, 21); the Sept. for חֵפֶץ and רָצון; [[will]], i. e., a. [[what]] [[one]] wishes or has [[determined]] shall be done (i. e. objectively, [[thing]] willed): [[θέλημα]] τοῦ Θεοῦ is used — of the [[purpose]] of God to [[bless]] [[mankind]] [[through]] Christ, Winer's Grammar, 111 (105)); τό [[θέλημα]], Winer's Grammar, 594 (553)) ([[αὐτοῦ]], [[see]] Fritzsche; in patristic Greek, [[however]], [[θέλημα]] is so used [[even]] [[without]] the [[article]]; cf. Ignatius ad Romans 1,1 [ET]; ad Ephesians 20,1 [ET], etc.)); τοῦ κυρίου, commands, precepts: (WH. marginal [[reading]]); ἐστι τό [[θέλημα]] τίνος, followed by [[ἵνα]], Buttmann, 237 (204); 240 (207); Winer's Grammar, § 44,8.)<br /><b class="num">b.</b> equivalent to τό θέλειν (i. e. the [[abstract]] [[act]] of [[willing]], the subjective) [[will]], [[choice]]: Winer's Grammar, 604 (562)); ποιεῖν τό [[θέλημα]] τίνος ([[especially]] of God), WH marginal [[reading]] the plural, [[see]] [[above]]); τό [[θέλημα]] (L T Tr WH [[βούλημα]]) τίνος κατεργάζεσθαι, γίνεται τό [[θέλημα]] τίνος, L R; ἡ [[βουλή]] τοῦ θελήματος, ἡ [[εὐδοκία]] τοῦ θελήματος ἐν τῷ θελημάτω τοῦ Θεοῦ, if God [[will]], [[διά]] θελήματος Θεοῦ, [[κατά]] τό [[θέλημα]] τοῦ Θεοῦ, [[pleasure]]: [[inclination]], [[desire]]: σαρκός, [[ἀνδρός]], [[θέλω]], at the [[end]].)