Remarks on the Synonyms of the New Testament (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...and correctly; for both are to be desired; for the two words agree in this, that in neither is there any thing of tumult, perturbation, agitation or solicitude; yet they differ. He is rievyjog who makes no disturbance; he is r, gipog who is himself free from agitation or disturbance. That life therefore is riavios which excites no disturbance in others; and that is iippog which is not disturbed by others.y 'Hgjyiog is evidently used in this sense of which we are about to speak. The following occur in Xenophon: ffupara xaxiffTa zui aiffnrrcCj Cyneg, 13. 11, xaxui xai avavSo/v, LyC. 10. 6, avi/'-wv y.z'i /i.iKnoCvw, Memor. 1. 3, 9, axeuov xai avwiXif rov o-w/iaros, ib. 1. 2. 54, aTseuv xai ap, ixavuY, ib. 2. 5. 3, ku'O-uav xai paSupiiav, ib. 3. 5. 5, vaillvSivTas zai patovTas, opposed to aTaihivrovs xai a/iahis, ib. 4. 1. 4. 'The word icu%m is derived from pjy"J rnavit, appetivit, desiderium, and is, therefore, vita tranquilla, placida, ' a in 1 Pet. iii. 4, ni voalog xal ijevlov wiv/iarot. Hence, nstrx&fyn is to rest, to do nothing; and it is said of those who make no reply, nor contradict further, as Luke xiv..3. Acts xi. 18. xxi. 14, and 2 Thess. iii. 12. Paul exhorts those A"' hgvx'as igyaZifoai, rbv iavruv cbrov laSimrag, whom he heard ardxrui vigivarini, /ir, fev ieya'fo/i.ivovg, aXXa iweyafy/tivovs, i. e. meddling with the affairs of others. (Aristid. p. 494.) nav/josi nyi xal prid'iv ingiiigydfyro. It is evident that nev/ja is frequently used in the sense of silence, I Tim. ii. 11, 12, compared with 1 Cor. xiv. 34. "H--/oj is seldom used; but the more common forms figipa, rigi/taHe, rigipw, rigi/j.ifyiv, have the meaning which we have specified; although in these words the notion of tranquillity is often referred to external t...