(hlg)

1) Military: high-level group

2) Politico-military term: High Level Group (HLG)

m <spiel.aerospace> ■ hand launch glider (HLG)

hormona liberadora de gonadotropina, HLG, HLGn.

μιμητής, οῦ, ὁ (μιμέομαι; X., Pla. et al.; Philo, Joseph.) imitator, in our lit. mostly used w. εἶναι or γίνεσθαι

ⓐ w. gen. of the pers. imitated (X., Mem. 1, 6, 3 οἱ διδάσκαλοι τοὺς μαθητὰς μιμητὰς ἑαυτῶν ἀποδεικνύουσιν; Jos., Ant. 1, 109; 12, 203 μιμ. γίν. τοῦ γεγεννηκότος) μιμηταί μου γίνεσθε use me as your model 1 Cor 4:16 (BSanders, HTR 74, ’81, 353–63); 11:1 (EEidem, Imitatio Pauli: Festskrift for EStave 1922, 67–85; WPdeBoer, The Imitation of Paul ’62; ELarsson, Christus als Vorbild [diss. Uppsala] ’62; ASchulz, Nachfolgen u. Nachahmen ’62; further lit. EGüttgemanns, D. leidende Apostel, ’66, 185–94; CSpicq, BRigaux Festschr., ’70, 313–22). Cp. 1 Cl 17:1. μιμηταὶ τῶν κληρονομούντων τὰς ἐπαγγελίας Hb 6:12. μ. ἡμῶν κ. τοῦ κυρίου 1 Th 1:6 (TRE XXIII 685f). τ. κυρίου IEph 10:3; MPol 17:3; cp. 1:2. Χριστοῦ IPhld 7:2; cp. 1 Cor 11:1. (τοῦ) θεοῦ (Did., Gen. 180, 11; Just., A I, 21, 4 θεῶν) Eph 5:1; Dg 10:4b, 6; IEph 1:1; ITr 1:2.—EGulin, Die Nachfolge Gottes: Studia Orientalia I, ed. Societas Orientalis Fennica 1925, 34–50; FTillmann, D. Idee der Nachfolge Christi ’34; JNielen in Hlg. Überliefg. (ed. OCasel) ’38, 59–85.

ⓑ w. an impersonal gen. (Herodian 6, 8, 2 τ. ἀνδρείας; Philo, Virt. 66; Jos., Ant. 1, 68; 8, 251; τῆς ἀρετῆς Did., Gen. 144, 24) τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν τοῦ θεοῦ 1 Th 2:14. τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ 1 Pt 3:13 v.l. τῆς χρηστότητος Dg 10:4a. τῆς ὑπομονῆς Pol 8:2. τοῦ πάθους τοῦ θεοῦ IRo 6:3.—DELG s.v. μῖμος. M-M. TW.

πανοπλία, ας, ἡ (πᾶς, ὅπλον; Hdt., Aristoph. et al.; Polyb. 3, 62, 5; 4, 56, 3; Diod S 20, 84, 3; ins, LXX)

① the complete equipment of a heavy-armed soldier, full armor (2 Km 2:21; 2 Macc 3:25; Jos., Bell. 2, 649, Ant. 7, 104; 20, 110) Lk 11:22 (on vss. 21f cp. 4 Macc 3:12 A τὰς πανοπλίας καθωπλίσαντο [s. SLegasse, NovT 5, ’62, 5–9]).

② IPol 6:2 marks a transition in the direction of a nonliteral mng.; here endurance is compared with πανοπλία in a context that uses many concepts fr. the life of a soldier, and specif. mentions separate parts of his equipment. Purely metaphoric is πανοπλία τοῦ θεοῦ full armor of God Eph 6:11, 13 (fig. use of π. also Wsd 5:17; Sir 46:6; Philo, Somn. 1, 103; 108; other reff. Straub 91f). On ἀναλαβεῖν τὴν πανοπλίαν vs. 13 s. ἀναλαμβάνω 2.—On a Christian’s ‘military service’ and ‘warfare’ s. AHarnack, Militia Christi 1905; MMeinertz, D. Ap. Pls und d. Kampf: Internat. Monatsschr. 11, 1917, 1115–50; MDibelius, Hdb. exc. on Eph 6:10 and 1 Ti 1:18; AVitti, Militum Christi Regis arma iuxta S. Paulum: Verbum Domini 7, 1927, 310–18; Cumont³ ’31, xiif; 207f; HEmonds: Hlg. Überliefg. (ed. by OCasel) ’38, 21–50 (anc. philos.); EFavier, L’armure du soldat de dieu d’après s. Paul ’38; CBond, Winning w. God (on Eph 6:10–18) ’40.—B. 1398. M-M. TW.

ποιμήν, ένος, ὁ (s. prec. two entries; Hom.+; pap, LXX; JosAs; ApcEl [PSI I, 7 verso, 1]; AscIs, ApcrEzk, Philo; Jos., Ant. 8, 404 al.)

① one who herds sheep, shepherd, sheep-herder (Demetr.: 722 Fgm. 1, 13 Jac. nomads; Theoph. Ant. 2, 35 [p. 190, 8]. In imagery or parable: Orig., C. Cels. 4, 17, 21) Mt 9:36=Mk 6:34 (Num 27:17); Mt 25:32; GJs 4:3; 18:3 (codd.). Of the shepherds at Jesus’ birth Lk 2:8, 15, 18, 20 (s. HGressmann, Das Weihnachtsevangelium 1914 [on this CClemen, StKr 89, 1916, 237–52]; JGeffcken, D. Hirten auf dem Felde: Her 49, 1914, 321–51 [against him JKroll, Her 50, 1915, 137ff]; Clemen² 1924, 195; 203ff; IHarrie, Die Anbetung der Hirten: ARW 23, 1925, 369–82; RBultmann, Gesch. d. Syn. Trad.² ’31, 323–6; GErdmann, D. Vorgesch. d. Lk u. Mt ’32; ADeissmann, D. Anbetung d. Hirten u. d. Anbetung d. Weisen: Lutherring 16, ’35, 377–82).—In imagery, w. detail predominating: πατάξω τὸν ποιμένα, καὶ διασκορπισθήσονται (v.l. and also more grammatically correct:-θήσεται) τὰ πρόβατα τῆς ποίμνης (cp. Zech 13:7) Mt 26:31; Mk 14:27; B 5:12. Of Christ in extended imagery J 10:2, 7 v.l., 16; (opp. ὁ μισθωτός) vs. 12; ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλός vs. 11ab, 14 (Maximus Tyr. 6, 7d Cyrus is called ποιμὴν ἀγαθός, because he protects the Persian ‘flock’ fr. the barbarian ‘wolves’).

② one who serves as guardian or leader, shepherd, fig. ext. of 1 (Diog. L. 9, 40 Democritus is called ποιμὴν [=guardian] μύθων)

ⓐ esp. freq. in Hermas (Leutzsch, Hermas 439f n. 546)

α. as the angel of repentance and bearer of a revelation (MDibelius, Der Offenbarungsträger im ‘Hirten’ des H.: Harnack-Ehrung 1921, 105–18; Rtzst., Erlösungsmyst. 1921, 149) Hv 5:3, 7; Hs 2:1; 5, 1, 1; 8, 1, 4; 18; 8, 2, 5f; 8; 8, 4, 1; 8, 5, 1; 6; 8, 6, 1; 9, 1, 1; 9, 2, 6; 9, 5, 1; 7; 9, 7, 1; 3f; 9, 8, 1; 9, 9, 5–7; 9, 10, 1; 4; 6; 9, 11, 1; 8; 10, 3, 4f [=POxy 404 recto C, 15; 20 restored].

β. in the vision of the shepherds Hs 6, 1, 5f; 6, 2, 1; 5f; 6, 3, 2; 7:1.

ⓑ of those who lead Christian communities/congregations/ churches

α. God (Philo, Agr. 51; Aberciusins. 3 π. ἁγνός) IRo 9:1.

β. Christ τὸν ποιμένα τῶν προβάτων τὸν μέγαν Hb 13:20 (RGyllenberg, D. Christol. des Hb: ZST 11, ’34, 662–90). τὸν ποιμένα καὶ ἐπίσκοπον τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν 1 Pt 2:25 (cp. Philo, Mut. Nom. 116 of the θεῖος λόγος; Ezk 34:23). ποιμ. τῆς ἐκκλησίας MPol 19:2. S. above 1, end, and Hdb. exc. after J 10:21; Bultmann 276–93; JQuasten, Hlg. Überliefg. (edited by OCasel) ’38, 51–58 (Hellenistic and early Christian); WJost, Poimen. D. Bild v. Hirten in d. bibl. Überl. u. s. christol. Bed., diss. Giessen ’39; TKempf, Christus der Hirt ’42; VMuller, Prehistory of the Good Shepherd: JNES 3, ’44, 87–90.

γ. human leaders (on ‘shepherds’ as the founders and temporary thiasarchs [leaders] of Gk. religious guilds s. EMaass, Orpheus 1895, 181; Himerius, Or. 54 [=Or. 15] when greeting his newly arrived students, compares the teachers to shepherds [ἀγελάρχαι] and the pupils to the flock [ἀγέλη alternating with ποίμνιον §2]. S. also Jer 2:8; 3:15; Ezk 34:2) pastor Eph 4:11 (w. other church leaders). ὅπου ὁ ποιμήν (i.e. the superintendent/supervisor) ἐστιν, ἐκεῖ ὡς πρόβατα ἀκολουθεῖτε IPhld 2:1. S. also IRo 9:1 (Ign. as ‘shepherd’ of the Syrian church).—EHatch/AHarnack, D. Gesellschaftsverf. der christl. Kirchen im Altertum 1883, 230; HBruders, D. Verfassung der Kirche bis zum Jahr 175 n. Chr. 1904, 190f; 371f; Harnack, D. Mission⁴ I 1923, 350f; NCavatassi, De Munere Pastoris in NT: Verb. Domini 29, ’51, 215–27; 275–85.—B. 149. DELG. EDNT. RAC XV 577–607. M-M. TW.

προθεσμία, ας, ἡ (Lysias, Pla.+; ins [e.g. IG V/1, 550, 12; also the ins in JZingerle, Hlg. Recht: JÖAI 23, 1926, col. 23f οὐκ ἐτήρησε τὴν προθεσμίαν τῆς θεοῦ]; pap [e.g. POxy 2732, 19: 154 A.D.; 2754, 6: III A.D. πάλαι τοῦ διαλογισμοῦ τὴν προθεσμίαν εἰδότες=having known long ago the time fixed for the circuit court]; Sym.; Philo; Jos., Bell. 2, 633, Ant. 12, 201. Loanw. in rabb.—Subst. fem. of προθέσμιος, α, ον; ἡμέρα is to be supplied) a point of time set in advance, appointed day, fixed/limited time, of the day when a son reaches his majority ἄχρι τῆς προθεσμίας τοῦ πατρός until the time set by the father Gal 4:2. It is uncertain whether Paul is referring here to certain legal measures which gave the father the right to fix the date when his son would come of age, or whether he is rounding out his comparison w. details that occur to him at the moment, as he so oft. does (though there was a προθεσμία τοῦ πατρός for the coming of age of humankind in general; the parallel phrase, τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ χρόνου, vs. 4 is used oft. in the pap of contractual termination; see s.v. πληρόω 2).—DELG s.v. τίθημι.

ἐκκλησία, ας, ἡ (ἐκ + καλέω; Eur., Hdt.+)

① a regularly summoned legislative body, assembly, as gener. understood in the Gr-Rom. world (Jos., Ant. 12, 164; 19, 332, Vi. 268) Ac 19:39 (on ‘[regular] statutory assembly’, s. ἔννομος and IBM III/2, p. 141. The term ἐννόμη ἐ. here contrasts w. the usage vss. 32 and 40, in which ἐ. denotes simply ‘a gathering’; s. 2 below. On the ἐ. in Ephesus cp. CIG III, 325; IBM III/1, 481, 340; on the ἐ. in the theater there s. the last-named ins ln. 395; OGI 480, 9).—Pauly-W. V/2, 1905, 2163–2200; RAC IV 905–21 (lit.).

② a casual gathering of people, an assemblage, gathering (cp. 1 Km 19:20; 1 Macc 3:13; Sir 26:5) Ac 19:32, 40.

③ people with shared belief, community, congregation (for common identity, cp. the community of Pythagoras [Hermippus in Diog. L. 8, 41]. Remarkably, in Himerius, Or. 39 [Or. 5], 5 Orpheus forms for himself τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, a group of wild animals, who listen to him, in the Thracian mountains where there are no people), in our lit. of common interest in the God of Israel.

ⓐ of OT Israelites assembly, congregation (Dt 31:30; Judg 20:2; 1 Km 17:47; 3 Km 8:14; PsSol 10:6; TestJob 32:8 τῆς εὐώδους ἐ.; Philo; Jos., Ant. 4, 309; Diod S 40, 3, 6) Hb 2:12 (Ps 21:23); e.g. to hear the law (Dt 4:10; 9:10; 18:16) Ac 7:38.

ⓑ of Christians in a specific place or area (the term ἐ. apparently became popular among Christians in Greek-speaking areas for chiefly two reasons: to affirm continuity with Israel through use of a term found in Gk. translations of the Hebrew Scriptures, and to allay any suspicion, esp. in political circles, that Christians were a disorderly group).

α. of a specific Christian group assembly, gathering ordinarily involving worship and discussion of matters of concern to the community: Mt 18:17; συνερχομένων ὑμῶν ἐν ἐ. when you come together as an assembly 1 Cor 11:18; cp. 14:4f, 12, 19, 28, 35; pl. vs. 34. ἐν ἐ. ἐξομολογεῖσθαι τὰ παραπτώματα confess one’s sins in assembly D 4:14; cp. 3J 6 (JCampbell, JTS 49, ’48, 130–42; for the Johannines s. ESchweizer below). In Ac 15:22 the ‘apostles and elders’ function in the manner of the βουλή or council, the committee of the whole that was responsible in a Gr-Rom. polis for proposing legislation to the assembly of citizens.—Of Christians gathering in the home of a patron house-assembly (‘house-church’) Πρίσκαν καὶ Ἀκύλαν … καὶ τὴν κατʼ οἶκον αὐτῶν ἐ. Ro 16:5; cp. 1 Cor 16:19. Νύμφαν καὶ τὴν κατʼ οἶκον αὐτῆς ἐ. Col 4:15; ἡ κατʼ οἶκόν σου ἐ. Phlm 2.—FFilson, JBL 58, ’39, 105–12; other reff. οἶκος 1aα.—Pl. ἐ. τῶν ἁγίων 1 Cor 14:33; ἐ. τῶν ἐθνῶν Ro 16:4.—1 Ti 5:16 prob. belongs here, s. βαρέω b.

β. congregation or church as the totality of Christians living and meeting in a particular locality or larger geographical area, but not necessarily limited to one meeting place: Ac 5:11; 8:3; 9:31 (so KGiles, NTS 31, ’85, 135–42; s. c below), 11:26; 12:5; 15:3; 18:22; 20:17; cp. 12:1; 1 Cor 4:17; Phil 4:15; 1 Ti 5:16 perh., s. α above; Js 5:14; 3 J 9f; 1 Cl 44:3; Hv 2, 4, 3. More definitely of the Christians in Jerusalem Ac 8:1; 11:22; cp. 2:47 v.l.; 15:4, 22; Cenchreae Ro 16:1; cp. vs. 23; Corinth 1 Cor 1:2; 2 Cor 1:1; 1 Cl ins; 47:6; AcPlCor 1:16; Laodicea Col 4:16; Rv 3:14; Thessalonica 1 Th 1:1; 2 Th 1:1; Colossae Phlm subscr. v.l. Likew. w. other names: Rv 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 7; IEph ins; 8:1; IMg ins; ITr ins; 13:1; IRo 9:1; IPhld ins; 10:1; ISm 11:1; Pol ins. Plural: Ac 15:41; 16:5; Ro 16:16; 1 Cor 7:17; 2 Cor 8:18f, 23f; 11:8, 28; 12:13; Rv 2:7, 11, 17, 23, 29; 3:6, 13, 22; 22:16; the Christian community in Judea Gal 1:22; 1 Th 2:14; Galatia Gal 1:2; 1 Cor 16:1; Asia vs. 19; Rv 1:4, and cp. vss. 11 and 20; Macedonia 2 Cor 8:1. κατʼ ἐκκλησίαν in each individual congregation or assembly Ac 14:23 (on the syntax cp. OGI 480, 9 [s. 1 above]: ἵνα τιθῆνται κατʼ ἐκκλησίαν in order that they [the statues] might be set up at each [meeting of the] ἐ.). On κατὰ τ. οὖσαν ἐ. Ac 13:1 cp. εἰμί 1 end.

ⓒ the global community of Christians, (universal) church (s. AvHarnack, Mission I⁴ 420 n. 2 on Ac 12:1): Mt 16:18 (OBetz, ZNW 48, ’57, 49–77: Qumran parallels; s. HBraun, Qumran I, ’66, 30–37); Ac 9:31 (but s. 3bβ); 1 Cor 6:4; 12:28; Eph 1:22; 3:10, 21; 5:23ff, 27, 29, 32 (HSchlier, Christus u. d. Kirche im Eph 1930; also ThBl 6, 1927, 12–17); Col 1:18, 24; Phil 3:6; B 7:11; Hv 2, 2, 6; 2, 4, 1 (with the depiction of the church as an elderly lady cp. Ps.-Demetr. 265 where Hellas, the homeland, is represented as λαβοῦσα γυναικὸς σχῆμα); 3, 3, 3; IEph 5:1f and oft.—The local assembly or congregation as well as the universal church is more specif. called ἐ. τοῦ θεοῦ or ἐ. τ. Χριστοῦ. This is essentially Pauline usage, and it serves to give the current Gk. term its Christian coloring and thereby its special mng.:

α. ἐ. τοῦ θεοῦ (Orig., C. Cels. 1, 63, 22) 1 Cor 1:2; 10:32; 11:16, 22; 15:9; 2 Cor 1:1; Gal 1:13; 1 Th 2:14; 2 Th 1:4; 1 Ti 3:5, 15; Ac 20:28; ITr 2:3; 12:1; IPhld 10:1; ISm ins al.

β. ἐ. τοῦ Χριστοῦ (Orig., C. Cels. 5, 22, 14) Ro 16:16.

γ. both together ἐ. ἐν θεῷ πατρὶ καὶ κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ 1 Th 1:1.

δ. ἡ ἐ. ἡ πρώτη ἡ πνευματική the first, spiritual church (conceived in a Platonic sense as preexistent) 2 Cl 14:1; ἐ. ζῶσα the living church the body of Christ vs. 2; ἡ ἁγία ἐ. Hv 1, 1, 6; 1, 3, 4; ἡ καθολικὴ ἐ. ISm 8:2; ἡ ἁγία καὶ καθολικὴ ἐ. MPol ins; ἡ κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην καθολικὴ ἐ. 8:1; 19:2; ἓν σῶμα τῆς ἐ. ISm 1:2.—The literature before ’32 is given in OLinton, D. Problem der Urkirche in d. neueren Forschung (s. esp. 138–46) ’32 and AMedebielle, Dict. de la Bible, Suppl. II ’34, 487–691; before ’60, s. RAC; also s. TW, Sieben, and JHainz, Ekklesia ’72. Esp. important: EBurton, Gal (ICC) 1921, 417–20; KHoll, D. Kirchenbegriff des Pls usw.: SBBerlAk 1921, 920–47=Ges. Aufs. II 1928, 44ff; FKattenbusch, D. Vorzugsstellung d. Petrus u. d. Charakter d. Urgemeinde zu Jerusalem: KMüller Festschr. 1922, 322–51; KLSchmidt, D. Kirche des Urchristentums: Dssm. Festschr. 1927, 259–319, TW III 502–39. S. also: EPeterson, D. Kirche aus Juden u. Heiden ’33; KLSchmidt, D. Polis in Kirche u. Welt ’39; WBieder, Ekkl. u. Polis im NT u. in d. alten Kirche ’41; OMichel, D. Zeugnis des NTs v. d. Gemeinde ’41; NDahl, D. Volk Gottes ’41; RFlew, Jesus and His Church², ’43; GJohnston, The Doctrine of the Church in the NT ’43; WKümmel, Kirchenbegriff u. Geschichtsbewusstsein in d. Urg. u. b. Jesus ’43; DFaulhaber, D. Johev. u. d. Kirche ’38; AFridrichsen, Kyrkan i 4. ev.: SvTK 16, ’40, 227–42; ESchweizer, NT Essays (Manson memorial vol.) ’59, 230–45; EWolf, Ecclesia Pressa—eccl. militans: TLZ 72, ’47, 223–32; SHanson, Unity of the Church in the NT ’46; HvCampenhausen, Kirchl. Amt u. geistl. Vollmacht in den ersten 3 Jahrh. ’53; EKäsemann, Sätze hlg. Rechtes im NT, NTS 1, ’55, 248–60; AGeorge, ET 58, ’46/47, 312–16; in ATR: JBernardin 21, ’39, 153–70; BEaston 22, ’40, 157–68; SWalke 32, ’50, 39–53 (Apost. Fath.); JMurphy, American Ecclesiastical Review 140, ’59, 250–59; 325–32; PMinear, Images of the Church in the NT, ’60; BMetzger, Theology Today 19, ’62, 369–80; ESchweizer, Church Order in the NT, tr. FClarke ’61; RSchnackenburg, The Church in the NT, tr. WO’Hara ’65; LCerfaux, JBL 85, ’66, 250–51; AHilhorst, Filología Neotestamentaria 1, ’88, 27–34. S. also ἐπίσκοπος 2 end; Πέτρος; πέτρα 1.—B. 1476f. DELG s.v. καλέω. M-M. EDNT. TW. Sv.

ἱερόσυλος, ον (s. prec. entry; Aristoph. et al.; Aristot., Pol. 5, 4 p. 1304a, 3f; Diod S 16, 25, 2; Plut., Sol. 17, 1; ins; 2 Macc 4:42; Jos., Bell. 1, 654, Ant. 16, 164)

① pert. to a temple robber, subst. ὁ ἱ. temple robber (Draco in Plut., Solon 17, 2; Dio Chrys. 31 [14], 82; Alciphron 3, 7, 5; Philo, De Jos. 84; Jos., Ant. 16, 168) Ac 19:37. Some (e.g., KLatte, Hlg. Recht 1920, 83ff) interpret ἱ. in this pass. to mean

② pert. to being sacrilegious, transf. sense of 1, subst. a sacrilegious person, i.e. the equivalent of a temple plunderer (SIG 578, 47ff [II B.C.] ὁ δὲ εἴπας ἢ πρήξας τι παρὰ τόνδε τὸν νόμον … ἔστω ἱερόσυλος; 1016, 8; SIG² 680, 10. S. also Menand., Dyscolus 640 ἱερόσυλε σύ=you rogue!, Epitr. 1100 S. [=742 Kö.]).—DELG s.v. συλάω. M-M. TW.