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Strong's #1955 - ἐπίλυσις
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- a loosening, unloosing
- metaph. interpretation
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ἐπί-λῠσις, εως, ἡ,
1. release from, ἐ. φόβων δίδου A. Th. 134 (lyr.): abs., exemption from banishment, SIG 306.51 (Arc., iv B.C.).
2.. solution, σοφισμάτων S.E. P. 2.246; explanation, 2 Peter 1:20, Vett. Val. 172.3 (pl.), Hld. 1.18, 4.9, Iamb. Protr. 21 (pl.).
3.. discharge, of a debt, δοῦναί τισιν ἐ. PEleph. 27.23 (iii B.C.), cf. PGrenf. 2.26.27 (ii B.C.).
4.. spell, PMag.Leid.W. 25.11, al.
5.. Medic., change of dressing, Sor. 1.28 (pl.), Gal. 18(2).838(pl.), Paul.Aeg. 4.48.
ἐπίλυσις, ἐπιλύσεως, ἡ (ἐπιλύω, which see), a loosening, unloosing (German Auflösung); metaphorically, interpretation: 2 Peter 1:20, on which passage see γίνομαι, 5 e. α. (Genesis 40:8 Aq.; Heliodorus 1, 18; but not Philo, vita contempl. § 10, where ἐπιδειξεως was long ago restored.)
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** ἐπί -λυσις -εως , ἡ
(< ἐπιλύω ),
[in Aq.: Genesis 40:8; Sm.: Hosea 3:4 *;]
1. release.
2. solution, interpretation: 2 Peter 1:20.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
For the metaphorical sense which this word has in 2 Peter 1:20 see Vett. Val. p. 221.9 τὰς δὲ αἰτίας ἢ τὰς λοιπὰς ἐπιλύσεις μὴ ἐπιγνῷ, p. 330.10 οὐ μὴν κατὰ τὴν δόκησιν τινῶν ἀμφιβόλους ἐπιλύσεις καὶ γραφὰς ἀναρίθμους περιττῶν συντάξεων. In the papyri the word is used for the ";discharge"; of an account, etc., as in P Eleph 27.23 (B.C. 223-2) ἐπειδὴ. . . τετάγμεθα τὸ ἀργύριον καὶ τοὺς τόκους ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλικὴν τράπεζαν, καλῶς ποιήσεις δοὺς ἡμῖν τὴν ἐπίλυσιν, P Grenf II. 26.27 (B.C. 103), ib. 30.31 (B.C. 102), etc. : see further s.v. ἐπιλύω.
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