[B-Greek] Re: charakter Heb 1:3

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Wed Mar 9 08:30:04 EST 2005


 

Raymond Custer wrote:

>  How could Thayer or anyone else define it other than to seek the context of the uses found in history.  Since the uses are limited, and most are outside of Scripture and not even in the same period of time., can we say what this NT writer meant?

FWIW,  I've found nearly 500 instances of it's use in the Greek literature datable with certainty to the 4th cent BCE up through the 1st cent. CE, with some 87 of these instances appearing in literature from the 1st century CE.  Seems like **quite** a few instances to go by.

Yours,

Jeffrey
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