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|astxt=[[μέλλω]], [in LXX: Jb 3:8 (עָתִיד) 19:25 (אַחֲרוֹן); [[elsewhere]] for fut., and freq. in Wi, II, IV Mac;] <br />to be [[about]] to be or do;<br /><b class="num">1.</b>c. inf. (Bl., §62, 4; 68, 2; M, Pr., 114);<br /><b class="num">(a)</b>of intending or [[being]] [[about]] to do ofone's [[own]] [[free]] [[will]]: c. inf. praes., Mt 2:13, Lk 10:1, Ac 3:3 5:35, He 8:5, II Pe 1:12 (Field, Notes, 240), al.; c. inf. aor. (Bl., §58, 3), Ac 12:6, Re 3:16; <br /><b class="num">(b)</b>of [[compulsion]], [[necessity]] or [[certainty]]: c. inf. praes., Mt 16:27, Lk 9:31, Jo 6:71, Ro 4:24, al.; c. inf. aor., Ro 8:18, Ga 3:23, Re 3:2 12:4. <br /><b class="num">2.</b>Ptcp., ὁ μέλλων: absol., Ro 8:38, I Co 3:22; τὰ μ., Col 2:17; εἰς τὸ μ. (Field, Notes, 65); c. subst., Mt 3:7 12:32 (ὁ αἰὼν ὁ μ.; [[LXX]] for עַד), Ac 24:25, I Ti 4:8, He 2:5, al.

|txtha=[[future]] [[μελλήσω]] (L T Tr WH in ἔμελλον (so [[all]] editions in T WH); R G); T); L Tr); R [[present]]); L Tr)) and [[ἤμελλον]] (so [[all]] editions in R G); R G L); R G); R G T); L); cf. references [[under]] the [[word]] [[βούλομαι]], at the [[beginning]] and Rutherford's [[note]] on Babrius 7,15), to be [[about]] to do [[anything]]; so:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> the participle, ὁ μέλλων, [[absolutely]]: τά μέλλοντα and τά ἐνεστῶτα are contrasted, εἰς τό μέλλον, for the [[future]], [[hereafter]], εἰς, A. II:2 ([[where]] Grimm [[supplies]] [[ἔτος]])); τά μέλλοντα, things [[future]], things to [[come]], i. e., according to the context, the [[more]] [[perfect]] [[state]] of things [[which]] [[will]] [[exist]] in the [[αἰών]] μέλλων, ὁ [[αἰών]] ὁ μέλλων, ζωῆς τῆς [[νῦν]] καί τῆς μελλούσης, [[τήν]] οἰκουμένην [[τήν]] μέλλουσαν, τῆς μελλούσης ὀργῆς τό [[κρίμα]] τό μέλλον, [[πόλις]], τά μέλλοντα ἀγαθά, L Tr marginal [[reading]] WH [[text]] γενομένων); τοῦ μέλλοντος [[namely]], [[Ἀδάμ]], i. e. the Messiah, Winer's Grammar, 333 f (313); Buttmann, § 140,2), a. to be on the [[point]] of doing or [[suffering]] [[something]]: [[with]] an infinitive [[present]], ἤμελλεν ἑαυτόν ἀναιρεῖν, τελευτᾶν, ἀποθνῄσκειν, to [[intend]], [[have]] in [[mind]], [[think]] to: [[with]] an infinitive [[present]], L T Tr WH); Homer down; cf. Winer's Grammar, 333 f (313 f); Lob. ad Phryn., p. 745ff; ([[but]] [[see]] Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 420ff)): L T WH; βαλεῖν R G); [[ἔσεσθαι]], R G.<br /><b class="num">c.</b> as in Greek writings from Homer down, of those things [[which]] [[will]] [[come]] to [[pass]] (or [[which]] [[one]] [[will]] do or [[suffer]]) by [[fixed]] [[necessity]] or [[divine]] [[appointment]] (German sollen (are to be, [[destined]] to be, etc.)); [[with]] [[present]] infinitive [[active]]: [[ἡλιάς]] ὁ μέλλων ἔρχεσθαι, ὁ μέλλων λυτροῦσθαι, κρίνειν, WH marginal [[reading]] κρῖναι); [[with]] [[present]] infinitive [[passive]]: Tdf. [[γενέσθαι]]); τῆς μελλούσης ἀποκαλύπτεσθαι δόξης, [[τήν]] μέλλουσαν [[δόξαν]] ἀποκαλυφθῆναι, [[τήν]] μέλλουσαν πίστιν ἀποκαλυφθῆναι, [[ἔσεσθαι]], to [[delay]]: τί μέλλεις; [[Aeschylus]] Prom. 36; τί μέλλετε; [[Euripides]], Hec. 1094; Lucian, [[dial]]. mort. 10,13, and [[often]] in [[secular]] authors; 4 Maccabees 6:23; 9:1).