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Strong's #3807 - παιδαγωγός
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- a tutor i.e. a guardian and guide of boys. Among the Greeks and the Romans the name was applied to trustworthy slaves who were charged with the duty of supervising the life and morals of boys belonging to the better class. The boys were not allowed so much as to step out of the house without them before arriving at the age of manhood.
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παιδᾰγωγ-ός, ὁ,
= παιδὸς ἀγωγός,
slave who went with a boy from home to school and back again, Hdt. 8.75, E. Ion 725, El. 287, Antipho 3.3.7, Lys. 32.28, Pl. Ly. 208c: coupled with τίτθη, τροφός, Id. R. 373c; with ἡγεμών, ib. 467d; with διδάσκαλος, X. Lac. 3.1; of Phoenix, as the π. of Achilles, Pl. R. 390e, etc.; Fabius is called the π. of Hannibal, because he always followed him about, Plu. Fab. 5: metaph., ὁ νόμος π. εἰς Χριστόν has guided us until attainment of faith in Christ, Galatians 3:24 : generally, leader, δημοκρατίας, τυραννίδος, Plu. Arat. 48, Galb. 17.
παιδαγωγός, παιδαγωγου, ὁ (from παῖς, and ἀγωγός a leader, escort), from Herodotus 8, 75 down; a tutor (Latinpaedagogus) i. e. a guide and guardian of boys. Among the Greeks and Romans the name was applied to trustworthy slaves who were charged with the duty of supervising the life and morals of boys belonging to the better class. The boys were not allowed so much as to step out of the house without them before arriving at the age of manhood; cf. Fischer under the word in index 1 to Aeschines dial. Socrates; Hermann, Griech. Privatalterthümer, § 34, 15ff; (Smith, Dict. of Greek and Rom. Antiq. under the word; Becker, Charicles (English translation, 4th edition), p. 226f). They are distinguished from οἱ διδάσκαλοι: Xenophon, de rep. Lac. 3, 2; Plato, Lysias, p. 208 c.; (Diogenes Laërtius 3, 92. The name carries with it an idea of severity (as of a stern censor and enforcer of morals) in 1 Corinthians 4:15, where the father is distinguished from the tutor as one whose discipline is usually milder, and in Galatians 3:24f where the Mosaic law is likened to a tutor because it arouses the consciousness of sin, and is called παιδαγωγός εἰς Χριστόν, i. e. preparing the soul for Christ, because those who have learned by experience with the law that they are not and cannot be commended to God by their works, welcome the more eagerly the hope of salvation offered them through the death and resurrection of Christ, the Son of God.
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* παιδαγωγός , -o ῦ , ὁ
(< παῖς , ἄγω ),
a guide, guardian, trainer of boys, a tutor (disting. from διδάσκαλος , Xen., Lac., 3, 1), usually a trusty slave: opp. to πατήρ , 1 Corinthians 4:15; fig., of the Law, Papyri εἰς Χριστόν , Galatians 3:24-25.†
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";a watching for"; (Luke 17:20), like its verb, is claimed by Hobart p.153 as a medical term. MGr παρατήρησι, ";observation,"; ";watchfulness.";
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