Bible Lexicons

παιδιόθεν

(< παιδίον ),

adv.,

[in LXX: Genesis 47:3 *;]

= cl. ἐκ παιδός , παιδίον , from childhood: Mark 9:21.†

With 2 Corinthians 11:18 παραφρονῶν λαλῶ, ";I am talking like a madman,"; we may compare the account, written at earliest about A.D. 200, of the trial of an Alexandrian gymnasiarch before the Emperor Claudius, Chrest. I. 14iii. 14, where the condemned man scornfully asks—τοί (= τί) γὰρ ἄλλο ἔχομεν εἲ (= ἢ)παρα [φ ]ρονοῦντι βασιλεῖ τόπον διδόναι; ";for what else is there to do except to give way to a mad king?"; Παραφροσύνη is similarly attributed to the Emperor Gaius Caligula in Jos. Antt. XIX. 284 (v. 2) τοῦ διὰ τὴν πολλὴν ἀπόνοιαν καὶ παραφροσύνην, ὅτι μὴ παραβῆναι ἠθέλησεν τὸ Ἰουδαίων ἔθνος τὴν πάτριον θρησκείαν καὶ θεὸν προσαγορεύειν αὐτόν, ταπεινώσαντος αὐτούς.