λόγιον,
λογιου,
τό (diminutive of
λόγος (so Bleek (on
Hebrews 5:12), et al.; others, neuter of
λόγιος (Meyer on
Romans 3:2))), properly, "a little word (so Schol. ad
Aristophanes ran. 969 (973)), a brief utterance,
in secular authors a divine oracle" (doubtless because oracles were generally brief);
Herodotus,
Thucydides,
Aristophanes,
Euripides;
Polybius 3, 112, 8; 8, 30, 6;
Diodorus 2, 14;
Aelian v. h. 2, 41; of the Sibylline oracles,
Diodorus, p. 602 (from 50:34);
Plutarch, Fab. 4; in the
Sept. for
חֹשֶׁן the breast-plate of the high priest, which he wore when he consulted Jehovah,
Exodus 28:15;
Exodus 29:5, etc.; (once for
אֹמֶר, of the words of a man,
Psalm 18:15 (Ps. 19:15)); but chiefly for
אִמְרָה of any utterance of God, whether precept or promise; (cf.
Philo de congr. erud. grat. § 24; de profug. § 11 under the end); of the prophecies of God in the O. T.,
Josephus,
b. j. 6, 5, 4;
νόμους καί λόγια θεσπισθεντα διά προφητῶν καί ὕμνους,
Philo vit. contempl. § 3;
τό λόγιον τοῦ προφήτου (Moses), vit. Moys. 3:35, cf. (23, and) de praem. et poen. § 1 at the beginning;
τά δέκα λόγια, the Ten Commandments of God or the Decalogue, in
Philo, who wrote a special treatise concerning them (Works edition Mang. ii., p. 180ff (edited by Richter iv., p. 246ff)); (Apostolic Constitutions 2, 36 (p. 63, 7 edition Lagarde));
Eusebius,
h. e. 2, 18. In the N. T. spoken of
the words or utterances of God: of the contents of the Mosaic law,
Acts 7:38; with
τοῦ Θεοῦ or
Θεοῦ added, of his commands in the Mosaic law and his Messianic promises,
Romans 3:2, cf. Philippi and Umbreit at the passage; of the substance of the Christian religion,
Hebrews 5:12; of the utterances of God through Christian teachers,
1 Peter 4:11. (In ecclesiastical writings
λόγια τοῦ κυρίου is used of Christ's precepts, by
Polycarp, ad Philipp. 7, 1 [ET];
κυριακα λόγια of the sayings and discourses of Christ which are recorded in the Gospels, by
Papias in
Eusebius,
h. e. 3, 39;
Photius c. 228, p. 248 (18 edition, Bekker); (
τά λόγια τοῦ Θεοῦ) of the words and admonitions of God in the sacred Scriptures,
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 53, 1 [ET] (where parallel with
αἱ ἱεραι γραφαί), cf. 62, 9 [ET]; (and
τά λόγια simply, like
αἱ γραφαί of the New T. in the interpolated Epistle of
Ignatius ad Smyrn. 3 [ET]). Cf. Schwegler ((also Heinichen)), Index 4 ad
Eusebius,
h. e. under the word
λόγιον; (especially
Sophocles Lexicon, under the word and
Lightfoot in the Contemp. Rev. for Aug. 1875, p. 399ff On the general use of the word cf. Bleek, Br. a. d. Hebrew iii., pp. 114-117).)
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