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|txtha=φθορᾶς, ἡ ([[φθείρω]]), from [[Aeschylus]] and [[Herodotus]] down:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[corruption]], [[destruction]], perishing (opposed to [[γένεσις]], [[origin]], [[often]] in [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Plutarch]]; opposed to [[σωτηρία]], [[Plato]], Phileb., p. 35e.; for שַׁחַת, [[δουλεία]]); R. V. marginal [[reading]]) [[take]] [[φθορά]] [[here]] [[actively]]: εἰς φθοράν, to [[destroy]]); ἐν [[φθορά]], in a [[state]] of [[corruption]] or decomposition (of the [[body]] at [[burial]]), [[that]] [[which]] is [[subject]] to [[corruption]], [[what]] is [[perishable]], opposed to [[ἀφθαρσία]], the [[loss]] of [[salvation]], [[eternal]] [[misery]] ([[which]] [[elsewhere]] is called [[ἀπώλεια]]), [[ἀπόχρησις]]); opposed to [[ζωή]] [[αἰώνιος]], [[corruption]] i. e. [[moral]] [[decay]]: R. V. [[text]] in [[their]] [[destroying]]), others [[refer]] it to 1above), τῆς ζωῆς added, Wisdom of Solomon 14:12.