ἐπαγγελία,
ἐπαγγελίας,
ἡ (
ἐπαγγέλλω);
1. announcement:
1 John 1:5 (
Rec., where
ἀγγελία was long since restored);
κατ' ἐπαγγελίαν ζωῆς τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, to proclaim life in fellowship with Christ,
2 Timothy 1:1 (
Winers Grammar, 402 (376); cf.
κατά, II. at the end. But others give
ἐπαγγελία here as elsewhere the sense of
promise, cf. 2 below).
2. promise;
a. the act of promising, a promise given or to be given:
προσδέχεσθαι τήν ἀπό τίνος ἐπαγγελίαν (
assent; the reference is to a promise to surrender Paul to the power and sentence of the Jews),
Acts 23:21; (add,
ἐπαγγελίας ὁ λόγος οὗτος,
Romans 9:9). It is used also of the divine promises of blessing, especially of the benefits of salvation by Christ (cf.
Lightfoot on Galatians, 3:14):
Acts 7:17;
Romans 4:14,
16; (plural
Romans 9:4);
Galatians 3:17f,
21;
Galatians 4:23;
Hebrews 11:17;
2 Peter 3:9 (on which see
βραδύνω, 2);
Hebrews 8:6;
Hebrews 11:9; followed by the infinitive
Hebrews 4:1;
γίνεται τίνι,
Romans 4:13;
πρός τινα,
Acts 13:32;
Acts 26:6;
ἐρρήθη τίνι,
Galatians 3:16;
ἐστι τίνι, belongs to one,
Acts 2:39;
ἐπαγγέλλεσθαι τήν ἐπαγγελίαν 1 John 2:25;
ἔχειν ἐπαγγελίας, to have received,
Hebrews 7:6;
2 Corinthians 7:1 (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 177 (166)); to have linked to it,
1 Timothy 4:8;
εἶναι ἐν ἐπαγγελία, joined with a promise (others besides; cf.
Winer's Grammar, 391 (366)),
Ephesians 6:2;
ἡ γῆ τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, the promised land,
Hebrews 11:9;
τά κατά τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, born in accordance with the promise,
Romans 9:8;
Galatians 4:28;
τό πνεῦμα τῆς ἐπαγγελίας τό ἅγιον, the promised Spirit,
Ephesians 1:13;
αἱ διαθῆκαι τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, covenants to which was united the promise (of salvation through the Messiah),
Ephesians 2:12;
ἡ ἐπαγγελία τοῦ Θεοῦ, given by God,
Romans 4:20; in the plural
2 Corinthians 1:20;
αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι τῶν πατέρων, the promises made to the fathers,
Romans 15:8; with the genitive of the object,
τῆς ζωῆς,
1 Timothy 4:8;
τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ,
2 Peter 3:4;
κατ' ἐπαγγελίαν according to promise,
Acts 13:23;
Galatians 3:29;
δἰ ἐπαγγελίας,
Galatians 3:18.
b. by metonymy,
a promised good or blessing (cf.
ἐλπίς, under the end):
Galatians 3:22;
Ephesians 3:6 (yet here cf. Meyer or Ellicott);
ἀποστέλλειν τήν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ πατρός μου, the blessing promised by my Father,
Luke 24:49;
περιμένειν,
Acts 1:4;
κομίζεσθαι τήν ἐπαγγελίαν,
Hebrews 10:36;
Hebrews 11:39 (
Hebrews 11:13 T Tr WH,
προσδέχεσθαι L);
λαμβάνειν τάς ἐπαγγελίας,
Hebrews 11:13 (
R G);
ἐπιτυγχάνειν ἐπαγγελιῶν,
Hebrews 11:33;
κληρονομεῖν τάς ἐπαγγελίας,
Hebrews 6:12;
ἐπιτυγχάνειν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας,
Hebrews 6:15;
κληρονόμοι τῆς ἐπαγγελίας,
Hebrews 6:17 — (to reconcile
Hebrews 6:12,
15,
17 with
Hebrews 11:13,
39, which at first sight seem to be in conflict, we must hold, in accordance with
Hebrews 12:22-24, that the O. T. saints, after the expiatory sacrifice offered at length to God by Christ, were made partakers of the heavenly blessings before Christ's return from heaven; (others explain the apparent contradiction by the difference between the initial and the consummate reception of the promise; see the commentaries at the passage)); with the epexegetical genitive
λαβεῖν τήν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, the promised blessing, which is the Holy Spirit,
Acts 2:33;
Galatians 3:14 (cf.
Winer's Grammar, § 34, 3 a. at the end);
τήν ἐπαγγελίαν τῆς αἰωνίου κληρονομίας,
Hebrews 9:15. ((
Demosthenes 519, 8;
Aristotle, eth. Nic. 10, 1, p. 1164a, 29);
Polybius 1, 43, 6, and often;
Diodorus 1, 5;
Josephus, Antiquities 3, 5, 1; 5, 8, 11; 1 Macc. 10:15.)
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