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Strong's #5239 - ὑπερεκτείνω
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- to extend beyond the prescribed bounds, stretch out beyond measure, stretch out overmuch
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ὑπερεκ-τείνω,
stretch out beyond measure, ἑαυτούς 2 Corinthians 10:14 : — Pass., stretch out beyond, Procl. Inst. 59, Dam. Pr. 284; πόλλ' ὑπερεξετάθης cj. for πουλὺ παρεξ- in AP 9.643 (Agath.).
ὑπερεκτείνω; to extend beyond the prescribed bounds, stretch out beyond measure, stretch out overmuch: 2 Corinthians 10:14 (cf. Winers Grammar, 474 (442)). (Anth. 9, 643, 6 according to the emendation of William Dindorf; Gregory of Nazianzus, Eustathius)
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*† ὑπερ -εκ -τείνω ,
to stretch out overmuch: metaph., ἑαυτούς , 2 Corinthians 10:14.†
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";spare,"; c. gen. pers., as in Act. 20:29, al. : cf. P Pat 63133 (B.C. 164) (=P Petr III. p. 31) τῶν ἄλλων ἀδυνατούντων φει ̣ σε ̣σθε, ";you must spare the others who are incapable"; (Mahaffy), and P Oxy VII. 1065.6f (iii/A.D.) ὥσπερ [ο ]ἱ θεοὶ οὐκ ἐφίσαντό μ [ο ]υ, οὕτως κἀγὼ θεῶ [ν ] οὐ φί [σ ]ομαι, ";as the gods have not spared me, so will I not spare the gods,"; an interesting passage as illustrating ";the tendency in the popular religion to regard the relationship between gods and men as one of strict reciprocity"; (Ed.).
See also P Oxy VII. 1070.26 (iii/A.D.) μηδενὸς ὧν ἔχομεν αὐτῶν φειδομένη, ";sparing nothing that we have"; (Ed.), P Fay 20.19 (iii/iv A.D.) μεθ᾽ ὅσης αὐτοὺς προθυμίας φείδεσθαι, ";how much zeal it is their duty to show in exercising thrift"; (Edd.), and from the inscrr. Syll 325 (=.3 708).36 (before B.C.100) οὐδενὸς φεισάμενος οὔτε τῶν πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς οὔτε τῶν πρὸ [ς ] τοὺς πολείτας δικαίν, where Herwerden (Lex. s. v.) understands the verb in the sense ";rationem habere.";
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