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|txtha=1st aorist [[ἔφθασα]] (Winer's Grammar, § 15 [[under]] the [[word]]); [[perfect]] ἐφθακα (L [[text]] WH marginal [[reading]]); from Homer down;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[come]] [[before]], [[precede]], [[anticipate]]: [[ἡμεῖς]] οὐ μή φθάσωμεν ([[see]] μή, IV:2) [[τούς]] κοιμηθέντας, we shall [[not]] [[get]] the [[start]] of those [[who]] [[have]] [[fallen]] [[asleep]], i. e. we shall [[not]] [[attain]] to the fellowship of Christ [[sooner]] [[than]] the [[dead]], [[nor]] [[have]] [[precedence]] in [[blessedness]], ἔφθασεν ἐπ' αὐτούς ἡ [[ὀργή]], (God's [[penal]]) [[wrath]] came [[upon]] [[them]] [[unexpectedly]], ἔφθασεν ἐφ' [[ὑμᾶς]] ἡ [[βασιλεία]] τοῦ Θεοῦ, the [[kingdom]] of God has [[come]] [[upon]] [[you]] [[sooner]] [[than]] [[you]] [[expected]], Alex. (and [[other]] [[later]]) writings the [[idea]] of [[priority]] disappears, to [[come]] to, [[arrive]] at: [[εἰς]] τί, to [[reach]], [[attain]] to, a [[thing]], [[ἄχρι]] τίνος, τίνι, to a [[thing]], [[ἕως]] τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Test xii. Patr., p. 530 (i. e. [[test]]. Rub. 5 at the [[end]]); ἡ [[μεγαλωσύνη]] [[σου]] ἐμεγαλύνθη καί ἔφθασεν [[εἰς]] [[τόν]] οὐρανόν, Theod. (cf. 17,25; φθάνειν [[ἕως]] τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἔφθασεν ὁ [[μήν]] ὁ [[ἕβδομος]], 2Esdr. 3:1; [[Philo]] de mund. opif. § 1; de legg. alleg. 3:76; de confus. lingg. § 29; [[Plutarch]], apotheg. Lacon. § 28; de Alex. s. virt. s. [[fort]]. orat. 2:5. Cf. [[Sophocles]] Lexicon, [[under]] the [[word]]; Geldart, Modern Greek, p. 206; Winer's Grammar, § 2,1b.)). (Compare: [[προφθάνω]].)