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Ἀπολλύων ix. 17; Mk. ii. 22; Lk. v. 37. &emsp; 2. to destroy i.e. to lose; &ensp; a. prop.: Mt. x. 42; Mk. ix. 41 (🇬🇷); Lk. xν. 4, 8, 9; ix. 25; xvii. 33; Jn. xii. 25; 2 Jn. 8, etc. &ensp; b. metaph. Christ is said to lose any one of his followers (whom the Father has drawn to discipleship) if such a one becomes wicked and fails of salvation: Jn. vi. 39, cf. xviii. 9. Mid. to be lost: 🇬🇷, Lk. xxi. 18; 🇬🇷, Acts xxvii. 34 (Rec. 🇬🇷) 🇬🇷, Rev. xviii. 14 (Rec. 🇬🇷). Used of sheep, straying from the flock: prop. Lk. xv. 4 (🇬🇷, in Mt. xviii. 12 🇬🇷). Metaph. in accordance with the O. T. comparison of the people of Israel to a flock (Jer. xxvii. (l.) 6; Ezek. xxxiv. 4, 16), the Jews, neglected by their religious teachers, left to themselves and thereby in danger of losing eternal salvation, wandering about as it were without guidance, are called 🇬🇷: Mt. x. 6; xv. 24, (Is. liii. 6; 1 Pet. ii. 25); and Christ, reclaiming them from wickedness, is likened to a shepherd and is said 🇬🇷: Lk. xix. 10; Mt. xviii. 11 Rec. [.: 🇬🇷.]

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, (ptcp. fr. 🇬🇷), Apollyon (a prop. name, formed by the author of the Apocalypse), i. e. Destroyer: Rev. ix. 11; cf. 🇬🇷, [and B. D. s. v.]*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, Apollonia, a maritime city of Macedonia, about a day’s journey [acc. to the Antonine Itinerary 32 Roman miles] from Amphipolis, through which Paul passed on his way to Thessalonica [36 miles further]: Acts xvii. 1. [See B. D. s. v.]*

🇬🇷 [acc. to some, contr. fr. 🇬🇷, W. 102 (97); acc. to others, the o is lengthened, cf. Fick, Griech. Personennamen, p. xxi.], gen. 🇬🇷 (cf. B. 20 (18) sq.; [W. 62 (61)]), accus. 🇬🇷 (Acts xix. 1) and 🇬🇷 (1 Co. iv. 6 T Tr WH; Tit. iii. 13 T WH; cf. [WH. App. p. 157]; Kühner i. p. 315), 🇬🇷, Apollos, an Alexandrian Jew who became a Christian and a teacher of Christianity, attached to the apostle Paul: Acts xviii. 24; xix. 1; 1 Co. i. 12; iii. 4 sqq. 22; iv. 6; xvi. 12; Tit. iii. 13.*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷; impf. 🇬🇷 (Acts xxvi. 1); 1 aor. 🇬🇷; 1 aor. pass. inf. 🇬🇷, in a reflex. sense (Lk. xxi. 14); a depon. mid. verb (fr. 🇬🇷), prop. to speak so as to absolve (🇬🇷) one’s self, talk one’s self off of a charge etc. &emsp; 1. to defend one’s self, make one’s defence: absol., Lk. xxi. 14; Acts xxvi. 1; foll. by 🇬🇷, Acts xxv. 8; 🇬🇷, to bring forward something in defence of one’s self, Lk. xii. 11; Acts xxvi. 24, (often so in Grk. writ. also); 🇬🇷 either I bring forward what contributes to my defence [?], or I plead my own cause [R. V. make my defence], Acts xxiv. 10; 🇬🇷 with gen. of the thing and 🇬🇷 with gen. of pers., concerning a thing before one’s tribunal, Acts xxvi. 2; with dat. of the person whom by my defence I strive to convince that I am innocent or upright, to defend or justify myself in one’s eyes [A. V. unto], Acts xix. 33; 2 Co. xii. 19, (Plat. Prot. p. 359 a.; often in Lcian., Plut.; [cf. B. 172 (149)]). &emsp; 2. to defend a  or a   (so not infreq. in prof. auth.): Ro. ii. 15 (where acc. to the context the deeds of men must be understood as defended); 🇬🇷, Acts xxvi. 2 (but see under 1).*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, (See 🇬🇷), verbal defence, speech in defence: Acts xxv. 16; 2 Co. vii. 11; Phil. i. 7, 17 (16); 2 Tim. iv. 16; with a dat. of the pers. who is to hear the defence, to whom one labors to excuse or to make good his cause: 1 Co. ix. 3; 1 Pet. iii. 15; in the same sense 🇬🇷, Acts xxii. 1, (Xen. mem. 4, 8, 5).*

🇬🇷: to wash off or away; in the N. Τ. twice in 1 aor. mid. figuratively [cf. Philo de mut. nom. § 6, i. p. 585 ed. Mang.]: 🇬🇷, 1 Co. vi. 11; 🇬🇷, Acts xxii. 16. For the sinner is unclean, polluted as it were by the filth of his sins. Whoever obtains remission of sins has his sins put, so to speak, out of God’s sight,—is cleansed from them in the sight of God. Remission is [represented as] obtained by undergoing ; hence those who have gone down into the baptismal bath [lavacrum, cf. Tit. iii. 5; Eph. v. 26] are said 🇬🇷 to have washed themselves, or 🇬🇷 to have washed away their sins, i. e. to have been cleansed from their sins.*

🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, (fr. 🇬🇷 signifying &ensp;a. to redeem one by paying the price, cf. 🇬🇷: Plut. Pomp. 24; Sept. Ex. xxi. 8; Zeph. iii. 1; &ensp;b. to let one go free on receiving the price: Plat. legg. 11 p. 919 a.; Polyb. 22, 21, 8; [cf.] Diod. 13, 24), a releasing effected by payment of ransom; redemption, deliverance, liberation procured by the payment of a ransom; &emsp; 1. prop.: 🇬🇷, Plut. Pomp. 24 (the only pass. in prof. writ. where the word has as yet been noted; [add, Joseph. antt. 12, 2, 3; Diod. frag. l. xxxvii. 5, 3 p. 149, 6 Dind.; Philo, quod omn. prob. lib. § 17]). &emsp; 2. everywhere in the N. T. metaph., viz. deliverance effected through the death of Christ from the retributive wrath of a holy God and the merited penalty of sin: Ro. iii. 24; Eph. i. 7; Col. i. 14, (cf. 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, etc. [and Trench § lxxvii.]); 🇬🇷 deliverance from the penalty of transgressions, effected through their expiation, Heb. ix. 15, (cf. Delitzsch ad loc. and Fritzsche on Rom. vol. ii. p. 178); 🇬🇷, the last day, when consummate liberation is experienced from the sin still lingering even in the regenerate, and from all the ills and troubles of this life, Eph. iv. 30; in the same sense the word is apparently to be taken in 1 Co. i. 30 (where Christ himself is said to be redemption, i. e. the author of redemption, the one without whom we could have none), and is to be taken in the phrase 🇬🇷, Eph. i. 14, the redemption which will come to his possession, or to the men who are God’s own through Christ, (cf. Meyer ad loc.); 🇬🇷, deliverance of the body from frailty and mortality, Ro. viii. 23 [W. 187 (176)]; deliverance from the hatred and persecutions of enemies by the return of Christ from heaven, Lk. xxi. 28, cf. xviii. 7 sq.; deliverance or release from torture, Heb. xi. 35.*

🇬🇷; [impf. 🇬🇷]; fut. 🇬🇷; 1 aor. 🇬🇷; Pass., pf. 🇬🇷; 1 aor. 🇬🇷; [fut. 🇬🇷