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Strong's #3824 - παλιγγενεσία
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- new birth, reproduction, renewal, recreation, regeneration
- hence renovation, regeneration, the production of a new life consecrated to God, a radical change of mind for the better. The word often used to denote the restoration of a thing to its pristine state, its renovation, as a renewal or restoration of life after death
- the renovation of the earth after the deluge
- the renewal of the world to take place after its destruction by fire, as the Stoics taught
- the signal and glorious change of all things (in heaven and earth) for the better, that restoration of the primal and perfect condition of things which existed before the fall of our first parents, which the Jews looked for in connection with the advent of the Messiah, and which Christians expected in connection with the visible return of Jesus from heaven.
- other uses
- of Cicero's restoration to rank and fortune on his recall from exile
- of the restoration of the Jewish nation after exile
- of the recovery of knowledge by recollection
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πᾰλιγ-γενεσία, ἡ,
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1. rebirth, regeneration, of the world, παλιγγενεσίας ἡγεμόνες, of Noah and his sons, Id. 2.144; ἡ ἀνάκτησις καὶ π. τῆς πατρίδος J. AJ 11.3.9; renewal of a race, Corp.Herm. 3.3; of persons, beginning of a new life, εἰς π. ὁρμᾶν Ph. 1.159, cf. Luc. Musc.Enc. 7: hence of restoration after exile, Cic. Att. 6.6.4; transmigration, reincarnation of souls, Plu. 2.998c; cf. μετεμψύχωσις fin.
2. in Stoic Philos., rebirth of the κόσμος, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.191: pl., ib. 187, Boeth.Stoic. 3.265; so later, ἡ περιοδικὴ π. τῶν ὅλων M.Ant. 11.1, cf. Procl. in Ti. 3.241 D.
3. Medic., relapse, Gal. 13.83; regrowth of a tumour, Antyll. ap. Orib. 45.2.7.
II in Roman Law, = restitutio natalium, Just. Nov. 18.11.
III in NT.,
1 resurrection, Matthew 19:28.
2. regeneration by baptism, διὰ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας Titus 3:5.
παλιγγενεσία (T WH παλιγγενεσία (cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 77 bottom)), παλιγγενεσίας, ἡ (πάλιν and γένεσις), properly, new birth, reproduction, renewal, recreation (see Halm on Cicero, pro Sest. § 140), Vulg. and Augustine regeneratio; hence, "moral renovation, regeneration, the production of a new life consecrated to God, a radical change of mind for the better" (effected in baptism (cf. references under the word βάπτισμα, 3)): Titus 3:5 (cf. the commentaries at the passage (especially Holtzmann, where see, p. 172f for references); Weiss, Biblical Theol. especially §§ 84, 108; cf. Suicer, Thesaurus, under the word). Commonly, however, the word denotes the restoration of a thing to its pristine state, its renovation, as the renewal or restoration of life after death, Philo leg. ad Gaium § 41; de cherub. § 32; (de poster. Cain. § 36); Long. past. 3, 4 (2) (παλιγγενεσία ἐκ θανάτου); Lucian, encom. muscae 7; Schol. ad Sophocles Elec. 62 (Πυθαγόρας περί παλιγγενεσίας ἐτερατευετο); Plutarch, mor., p. 998 c. (i. e. de esu carn. 2:4, 4) (ὅτι χρωνται κοινοις αἱ ψυχαί σώμασιν ἐν ταῖς παλιγγενεσιαις (cf. ibid. 1:7, 5; also de Isa. et Osir. 72; de Ei quoted in Delph. 9; etc.)); the renovation of the earth after the deluge, Philo de vim Moys. ii., § 12; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 9, 4 [ET]; the renewal of the world to take place after its destruction by fire, as the Stoics taught, Philo (de incorrupt. mundi §§ 3, 14, 17); de round. § 15; Antoninus 11, 1 ((cf. Gataker ad loc.); Zeller, Philos. d. Griech. iii, p. 138); that signal and glorios change of all things (in heaven and earth) "for the better, that restoration of the primal and perfect condition of things which existed before the fall of our first parents," which the Jews looked for in connection with the advent of the Messiah, and which the primitive Christians expected in connection with the visible return of Jesus from heaven: Matthew 19:28 (where the Syriac correctly )tDX )MLOB [
STRONGS NT 3824: παλινγενεσία παλινγενεσία, see παλιγγενεσία.
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*† παλινγενεσία
(Rec. παλιγγ -), -ας , ἡ
(< πάλιν , γενεσις ),
new birth, renewal, restoration, regeneration;
(a) of persons (Plut., Phil., al.), of spiritual regeneration, διὰ λουτροῦ παλινγενεστίας (gen. attr., v. Ellic., in l), Titus 3:5;
(b) of the world, as in Stoics, Jewish Apocal., al. (v. Dalman, Words, 177 ff.), Matthew 19:28.†
παλιγγενεσία , see παλινγενεσία .
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This rare word used as a prep. c. gen. ";apart from,"; ";except"; (quater in NT) is seen in Test. xii. patr. Zab. i. 4 παρεκτὸς ἐννοίας, Didache vi. 1 παρεκτὸς Θεοῦ. For the form παρέξ cf. PSI I. 53i. 21 (census return—A.D. 132–3) παρὲξ τῶν προγ (εγραμμένων), ";apart from the persons written above,"; and P Oxy VIII. 1133.9 (A.D. 396) τοὺς τέσσαρας χρυσίνους παρὲξ μυριάδων ἑξακοσίο (= ω)ν, ";four golden solidi less 600 myriads.";
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