ἀπαύγασμα: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἀπαυγαστος, τό (from [[ἀπαυγάζω]] to [[emit]] [[brightness]], and [[this]] from [[αὐγή]] [[brightness]]; cf. [[ἀποσκίασμα]], [[ἀπείκασμα]], ἀπεικονισμα, ἀπηχημα), reflected [[brightness]]: Christ is called in [[ἀπαύγασμα]] τῆς δόξης ... τοῦ Θεοῦ, inasmuch as he [[perfectly]] reflects the [[majesty]] of God; so [[that]] the [[same]] [[thing]] is [[declared]] [[here]] of Christ metaphysically, [[which]] he says of [[himself]] in an [[ethical]] [[sense]] in ὁ [[θεωρῶν]] [[ἐμέ]] θεωρεῖ [[τόν]] πέμψαντά με. ([[Philo]], mund. opif. § 51; [[plant]]. Noë § 12; de concup. § 11; and [[often]] in ecclesiastical writings; [[see]] [[more]] [[fully]] in Grimm on Sap., the [[passage]] cited, p. 161 f) (Some interpreters [[still]] adhere to the [[significant]] [[effulgence]] or [[radiance]] (as [[distinguished]] from [[refulgence]] or [[reflection]]), [[see]] Kurtz at the [[passage]]; [[Sophocles]] Lexicon, [[under]] the [[word]]; Cremer, [[under]] the [[word]].)