καταφρονεῖν

καταφρονέω

look down upon: pres inf act (attic epic doric)

καταφρονέω

look down upon: pres inf act (attic epic doric)

καταφρονέω

look down upon: pres inf act (attic epic doric)

καταφρονέω

look down upon: pres inf act (attic epic doric)

διαμελετάω,

A practise diligently, Pl.Prm. 126c:—[voice] Med., Max.Tyr. 7.7:—[voice] Pass., Pl.Lg. 830b, cf. Sm.Ps.76(77).13: c. inf.,

δ. τοῦ θανάτου καταφρονεῖν Iamb.Protr.20

.

ἐπισύρω [pron. full] [ῡ],

A drag or trail after one,

τὼ πόδε D.L.1.81

;

χλαμύδα λαμπράν Posidon.36

J.:—[voice] Med.,

ποδήρεις χιτῶνας Luc.VH2.46

; φελλούς ib.45 ;

φόρτον Porph.VP25

;

γυναῖκας J.BJ4.1.10

: —[voice] Pass., crawl or creep along,

ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς X.Cyn.5.13

, cf.Ael.NA2.23 ; to be drawn over, rub against,

μήνιγγι Heliod.

ap. Orib.46.19.2 ; to be trailed on the ground, Ph.2.148 ; to be protracted, Just.Nov.42.1.2.

2 draw gently,

τὸ πνεῦμα Alciphr.3.12

.

3 [voice] Med., draw over oneself,

δέρμα αἰγός Longus3.24

.

b draw up by friction, Steph.in Gal.1.326D.

4 [voice] Pass., to be impeded in movements, Aret.SD1.7.

II c. acc., do in a slovenly, careless way, slur over, evade intentionally, τὰ πράγματα Lys,26.3 ;

τὰς πράξεις Plb.29.12.6

;

γραφήν D.H.1.7

(v.l. ὑπο- ; βίον Jul.Gal. 43b ([voice] Pass.): abs.,

ἐπισύροντες ἐροῦσι D.20.131

;

ἐπισύρων γέγραφα Jul.Ep.4

;

ἐ. ἐν ταῖς πράξεσι

to be negligent,

M.Ant. 8.51

;

καταφρονεῖν ὧν οὐκ οἶδεν καὶ ἐπισύρειν Porph.Abst.2.53

: in this sense freq. in [tense] pf. part. [voice] Pass., slurred over, neglected, Plb.16.20.3 ; τὸ -μένον [ τῶν λέξεων] Phld.Rh.1.49 S. ;

γράμματα ἐπισεσυρμένα

slovenly, hastily written,

Luc.DMeretr.10.3

; φθέγγεσθαι ἐ. τι καὶ συνεχὲς καὶ

ἐπίτροχον Id.Nav.2

; χρέμπτεσθαι ἐ. Ps.-Luc.Philopatr.20 ; ἐ. καὶ ῥυπαρός slovenly and dirty, of a man, D.L.1.81 ; ἐ. ἤθη lax morals, Procl.in Prm.p.553S. Adv.

ἐπισεσυρμένως

carelessly,

Epict.Ench.31

, Sch.Ar.Ra. 1545.

αἰσχύνη, ης, ἡ (Theognis, Aeschyl. et al.; pap, LXX; En 13:5; PsSol 9:6; TestLevi 15:2; Ar. 13:5; Just., A I, 16, 3; Ath. 1, 4; Mel., P. 68, 483).

① a sensitivity respecting possibility of dishonor, modesty, shame a feeling that one has (Aristoxenus, Fgm. 42a; Diod S 2, 4, 3; Plut., Mor. 248b; UPZ 70, 25 [II B.C.]; PGM 17a, 8; PsSol 9:6; En 13:5 ἀπὸ αἰ.; Jos., Ant. 5, 147) τὸ τῆς αἰσχύνης ἔνδυμα πατεῖν prob. to throw off and tread under foot the garment of shame (which men have worn since the awakening of modesty, i.e. the fall, Gen 3:7, cp. 2:25) GEg 252, 57 (cp. Mel., P. 68, 483 τὸν θάνατον ἐνδύσας αἴσχύνην). τὰ κρυπτὰ τῆς αἰ. what one conceals fr. a feeling of shame 2 Cor 4:2. Modesty, reverence (w. φόβος) of slaves toward masters D 4:11; B 19:7 (cp. X., Cyr. 6, 1, 35; Soph, Ajax 1079; Demosth. 25, 24).

② an experience of ignominy that comes to someone, shame, disgrace (Ath. 1:4; Diod S 2, 23, 2; Appian, Samn. 4 §11; PEleph 1, 6; PTebt 104, 30; POxy 471, 78; Sir 25:22; EpArist 206; Philo; TestLevi 15:2): ἡ αἰ. τῆς γυμνότητος shameful nakedness Rv 3:18. καταφρονεῖν αἰσχύνης disdain the shame Hb 12:2. ἡ δόξα ἐν τῇ αἰσχύνῃ αὐτῶν they find their glory in that which causes them shame Phil 3:19. μετὰ αἰσχύνης in disgrace (Demosth. 20, 16; Polyb. 3, 81, 6; 1 Esdr 8:74; Philo, Det. Pot. Ins. 51; Jos., Ant. 12, 179) Lk 14:9.

③ commission of someth. shameful, a shameful deed, pl. (Eur., Herc. 1423; Isocr. 14, 50; Aeschin. 1, 154; Jos., Ant. 4, 260) ἐπαφρίζειν τὰς αἰ. casting up their shameful deeds like (waves casting up) foam Jd 13.—MKlopfenstein, Scham u. Schande nach d. AT, ’72.—B. 1141. DELG s.v. αἶσχος. M-M. TW.

θάνατος, ου, ὁ (Hom.+)

① the termination of physical life, death

ⓐ natural death J 11:4, 13; Hb 7:23; 9:15f; Rv 18:8 (s. also 1d); 1 Cl 9:3. Opp. ζωή (Mel., P. 49, 355; cp. 2a.) Ro 7:10; 8:38; 1 Cor 3:22; 2 Cor 1:9 (s. also 1bα); Phil 1:20. γεύεσθαι θανάτου taste death = die (γεύομαι 2) Mt 16:28; Mk 9:1; Lk 9:27; J 8:52; Hb 2:9b. Also ἰδεῖν θάνατον (Astrampsychus p. 26 Dec. 48, 2. Also θεάομαι θ. p. 6 ln. 53) Lk 2:26; Hb 11:5; ζητεῖν τὸν θ. Rv 9:6 (where follows φεύγει ὁ θ. ἀπʼ αὐτῶν). θανάτου καταφρονεῖν despise death ISm 3:2; Dg 10:7a (Just., A II, 10, 8 al.; Tat. 11, 1 al.). περίλυπος ἕως θανάτου sorrowful even to the point of death (Jon 4:9 σφόδρα λελύπημαι ἕως θανάτου; Sir 37:2) Mt 26:38; Mk 14:34; ἄχρι θ. to the point of death of a devotion that does not shrink even fr. the sacrifice of one’s life Rv 2:10; 12:11 (TestJob 5:1; cp. Just., D. 30, 2 μέχρι θ. al.); διώκειν ἄχρι θανάτου persecute even to death Ac 22:4. Also διώκειν ἐν θανάτῳ B 5:11. διώκειν εἰς θ. AcPl Ha 11, 20 (opp. εἰς ζωήν). εἰς θ. πορεύεσθαι go to one’s death Lk 22:33. [ἀναβῆναι] εἰς τὸν τοῦ θανάτου [τόπον] AcPl Ha 6, 30. ἀσθενεῖν παραπλήσιον θανάτῳ be nearly dead with illness Phil 2:27; ἐσφαγμένος εἰς θ. receive a fatal wound Rv 13:3a. ἡ πληγὴ τοῦ θανάτου a fatal wound 13:3b, 12. φόβος θανάτου Hb 2:15.

ⓑ of death as a penalty (Thu. et al.; Diod S 14, 66, 3: the tyrant is μυρίων θανάτων τυχεῖν δίκαιος=‘worthy of suffering countless deaths’; Just., A I, 45, 5 θανάτου ὁρισθέντος κατὰ … τῶν ὁμολογούντων τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Χριστοῦ al.).

α. as inflicted by secular courts ἔνοχος θανάτου ἐστίν he deserves death (ἔνοχος 2bα) Mt 26:66; Mk 14:64; παραδιδόναι εἰς θ. betray, give over to death Mt 10:21; Mk 13:12 (ApcEsdr 3:12 p. 27, 23 Tdf.). θανάτῳ τελευτᾶν die the death = be punished w. death Mt 15:4; Mk 7:10 (both Ex 21:17). ἄξιον θανάτου, deserving death (the entire clause οὐδὲν … αὐτῷ=he is not guilty of any capital crime; cp. Jos., Ant. 11, 144) Lk 23:15 (s. αἴτιος 2); Ac 23:29; 25:11, 25. αἴτιον θανάτου Lk 23:22 (s. αἴτιος 2). Also αἰτία θανάτου (Lucian, Tyrannic. 11) Ac 13:28; 28:18; κρίμα θ. sentence of death: παραδιδόναι εἰς κρίμα θ. sentence to death Lk 24:20; fig. ἐν ἑαυτοῖς τὸ ἀπόκριμα τοῦ θ. ἐσχήκαμεν 2 Cor 1:9. κατακρίνειν τινὰ θανάτῳ (εἰς θάνατον v.l.) condemn someone to death Mt 20:18.—Several of the pass. just quoted refer to the death sentence passed against Christ; sim., θάνατος is freq. used

β. of the death of Christ gener. (Just., D. 52, 4 al.; ἀνθρώπου θ. ἀποθανεῖν Orig., C. Cels. 1, 61, 40): Ro 5:10; 6:3–5; 1 Cor 11:26; Phil 2:8a; 3:10; Col 1:22; Hb 2:14a; IEph 7:2; 19:1; IMg 9:1; ITr 2:1. τὸ πάθημα τ. θανάτου the suffering of death Hb 2:9. ἕως θανάτου καταντῆσαι even to meet death Pol 1:2.—GWiencke, Pls über Jesu Tod ’39.—The expr. ὠδῖνες τοῦ θανάτου, used Ac 2:24 in a passage referring to Christ, comes fr. the LXX, where in Ps 17:5 and 114:3 it renders חֶבְלֵי־מָוֶת (cp. 1QH 3, 7–12). This would lit. be ‘bonds of death’. But an interchange of חֶבֶל ‘bond’ and חֵבֶל ‘pain’, specif. ‘birth-pangs’, has made of it pangs of death (cp. a sim. interchange in 2 Km 22:6 al. LXX, and the expr. in Pol 1:2 λύσας τ. ὠδῖνας τοῦ ᾅδου after Ac 2:24 v.l.). This results in a remarkably complex metaphor (s. BGildersleeve, Pindar 1885, 355 on ‘telescoped’ metaphor) Ac 2:24, where death is regarded as being in labor, and unable to hold back its child, the Messiah (s. Beginn. IV ad loc.; Field, Notes 112).

γ. of natural death as divine punishment (Did., Gen. 148, 25; 171, 9) Ro 5:12ab; 21; 1 Cor 15:21; B 12:2, 5.

ⓒ of the danger of death (2 Ch 32:11) σῴζειν τινὰ ἐκ θανάτου save someone fr. death (PsSol 13:2 [ἀπὸ … θ.]; Ael. Aristid. 45 p. 120 D.; Just., D. 98, 1 σωθῆναι ἀπὸ τοῦ θ.) Hb 5:7. Also ῥύεσθαι ἐκ θ. 2 Cor 1:10 (Just., D. 111, 3). θάνατοι danger(s)/perils of death (Epict. 4, 6, 2; Ptolem., Apotel. 2, 9, 5; Ael. Aristid. 46 p. 307 D.: ὥσπερ Ὀδυσσεὺς θ.; Maximus Tyr. 15, 8a; Philo, In Flacc. 175 προαποθνῄσκω πολλοὺς θανάτους) 11:23. μέχρι θανάτου ἐγγίζειν come close to dying Phil 2:30. 2 Cor 4:11, cp. vs. 12, is reminiscent of the constant danger of death which faced the apostle as he followed his calling.

ⓓ of the manner of death (Artem. 1, 31 p. 33, 10; 4, 83 p. 251, 16 μυρίοι θ.=‘countless kinds of death’; TestAbr A 20 p. 102, 25 [Stone p. 52] ἑβδομήκοντα δύο εἰσὶν θ.; ParJer 9:22; Ps.-Hecataeus: 264 Fgm. 21, 191 Jac. [in Jos., C. Ap. 1, 191]) ποίῳ θ. by what kind of death J 12:33; 18:32; 21:19. θ. σταυροῦ Phil 2:8b.

ⓔ death as personified Ro 5:14, 17; 6:9; 1 Cor 15:26 (cp. Plut., Mor. 370c τέλος ἀπολεῖσθαι [for ἀπολείπεσθαι] τὸν Ἅιδην); vss. 54–56 (s. on κέντρον 1); Rv 1:18; 6:8a; 20:13f; 21:4; B 5:6; 16:9 (this concept among Jews [Hos 13:14; Sir 14:12; 4 Esdr 8, 53; SyrBar 21, 23; TestAbr A 16ff; Bousset, Rel.³ 253, 2] and Greeks [ERohde, Psyche1903, II 241; 249; CRobert, Thanatos 1879].—JKroll, Gott u. Hölle ’32; Dibelius, Geisterwelt 114ff; JUbbink, Paulus en de dood: NThSt 1, 1918, 3–10 and s. on ἁμαρτία 3a).

② death viewed transcendently in contrast to a living relationship with God, death extension of mng. 1 (Philo)

ⓐ of spiritual death, to which one is subject unless one lives out of the power of God’s grace. θάνατον οὐ μὴ θεωρήσῃ J 8:51. Opp. ζωή 5:24; 1J 3:14; Ro 7:10; 8:6. This death stands in the closest relation to sin: Ro 7:13b; Js 1:15; 5:20; 2 Cl 1:6; Hv 2, 3, 1; also to the flesh: Paul thinks of the earthly body as σῶμα τ. θανάτου Ro 7:24. In contrast to the gospel the law of Moses engraved on stone διακονία τοῦ θανάτου service that leads to death 2 Cor 3:7 (cp. Tat. 14, 1 θανάτου … ἐπιτηδεύματα). The νόμος, which is τὸ ἀγαθόν, proves to be θάνατος death = deadly or cause of death Ro 7:13a. The unredeemed are ἐν χώρᾳ καὶ σκιᾷ θανάτου Mt 4:16; cp. Lk 1:79 (both Is 9:2). ἐν σκοτίᾳ θανάτου AcPl Ha 8, 32 (=BMM verso 4). This mng. of θάνατος cannot always be clearly distinguished fr. the foll., since spiritual death merges into

ⓑ eternal death. θαν. αἰώνιος B 20:1. This kind of death is meant Ro 1:32; 6:16, 21, 23; 7:5; 2 Cor 7:10; 2 Ti 1:10; Hb 2:14b; B 10:5; 2 Cl 16:4; Dg 10:7b; Hv 1, 1, 8; m 4, 1, 2. ἁμαρτία πρὸς θάνατον 1J 5:16f (Polyaenus 8, 32 bravery πρὸς θ.=‘to the point of death’; s. ἁμαρτάνω e and TestIss 7:1 ἁμαρτία εἰς θάνατον). ὀσμὴ ἐκ θανάτου εἰς θάνατον a fragrance that comes from death and leads to death 2 Cor 2:16. In Rv this (final) death is called the second death (ὁ δεύτερος θ. also Plut., Mor. 942f) 2:11; 20:6, 14b; 21:8 (s. TZahn, comm. 604–8).—GQuell, Die Auffassung des Todes in Israel 1926; JLeipoldt, D. Tod bei Griechen u. Juden ’42; TBarrosse, Death and Sin in Ro: CBQ 15, ’53, 438–59; ELohse, Märtyrer u. Gottesknecht ’55 (lit.); SBrandon, The Personification of Death in Some Ancient Religions, BJRL 43, ’61, 317–35.

③ a particular manner of death, fatal illness, pestilence and the like, as established by context (Job 27:15; Jer 15:2: θάνατος … μάχαιρα … λιμός) Rv 2:23. ἀποκτεῖναι ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ κ. ἐν λιμῷ κ. ἐν θανάτῳ 6:8b; 18:8 (cp. PsSol 13:2; 15:7; Orig., C. Cels. 5, 37, 10).—JToynbee, Death and Burial in the Roman World ’71; SHumphreys, The Family, Women, and Death ’83.—B. 287. DELG. BHHW III 1999–2001. 1609–13. M-M. TW. Sv.

κυριότης, ητος, ἡ (Memnon Hist. [I B.C./I A.D.]: 434 Fgm. 1, 4, 6 Jac. κ. πολλῶν=‘rule over many’; Achmes 229, 17 κ. λαοῦ; Soranus p. 10, 23 κ. πρὸς τὸ ζῆν=‘mng. for life’; Dositheus 1, 1, of the special mng. of a thing [w. δύναμις]; schol. on Pla. 111a κ. τῶν ὀνομάτων=meaning of the words. Elsewh. in eccl. writers and Byz. authors, as well as late pap: PCairMasp 151, 199 [VI A.D.] παρακαλῶ πάντα κριτὴν κ. δικαστὴν κ. ἐξουσίαν κ. κυριότητα; 132 ἐπὶ πάσης ἀρχῆς κ. ἐξουσίας κ. θρόνου κ. κυριότητος ὑφʼ ἡλίῳ).

① the essential nature of the κύριος, the Lord’s nature, w. ref. to God D 4:1.

② esp. the majestic power that the κύριος wields, ruling power, lordship, dominion (cp. θειότης as the essential aspect of θεός), ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ εἰς ἐξουσίαν μεγάλην κεῖται καὶ κυριότητα the Son of God appears in great authority and ruling power Hs 5, 6, 1 (κεῖμαι 3c). κυριότητα ἀθετεῖν Jd 8 and κυριότητος καταφρονεῖν 2 Pt 2:10, which is usu. considered dependent on it, is oft. (Ritschl, Spitta, HvSoden, BWeiss, Kühl, Mayor, Windisch, Knopf, Vrede et al.—FHauck leaves the choice open betw. 2 and 3) taken to mean the glory of the Lord which is rejected or despised by the dissident teachers. Perh. it is abstr. for concr., κυριότης for κύριος; s. the foll.

③ a special class of angelic powers, bearers of the ruling power, dominions (cp. En 61:10; Slav. En 20; TestSol 8:6 D and s. κύριος II 2bεב) Col 1:16; Eph 1:21; AcPl Ha 1, 7 [restored].—GMacGregor, Principalities and Powers; the Cosmic Background of Paul’s Thought: NTS 1, ’54, 17–28. ADupont-Sommer, Jahrb. f. kleinasiat. Forschung 1, ’50, 210–18.—DELG s.v. κύριο. EDNT. TW.

νεότης, τητος, ἡ (νέος) Hom. et al.; ins, pap, LXX; TestAbr B 10 p. 115, 8 [Stone p. 78]; Test12Patr; JosAs 17:4 [cod. A more freq.: p. 64:18 and 72:15 Bat.] Philo; Jos., Vi. 325) state of youthfulness, youth τῆς ν. τινος καταφρονεῖν look down on someone’s youth, i.e. on someone because the person is young 1 Ti 4:12 (Appian, Bell. Civ. 1, 94 §435 ἐπιγελάω τῇ νεότητι). ἀπὸ νεότητος from youth (up) (M. Ant. 8, 1, 1; PTebt 276, 38; Jos., Bell. 4, 33; 1 Macc 1:6; 16:2, and used w. a gen. Num 22:30; Jer 3:25) 1 Cl 63:3; 19:5; D 4:9. Also ἐκ ν. (Il. 14, 86; Gen 48:15; Is 47:15; 54:6 and very oft. in LXX w. a gen.) Mt 19:20 D; Lk 18:21; Ac 26:4. ἐκ νεότητός μου Mt 19:20 v.l.; Mk 10:20; Lk 18:21 v.l.—Uncertain reading νε̣ό̣τη̣τ̣α̣ (ed. suggests that νηστείαν would be more meaningful but does not fit as well) AcPl Ha 6, 19.—DELG s.v. νέος 6. M-M. EDNT.

παραγγέλλω (παρά, ἀγγέλλω) impf. παρήγγελλον; 1 aor. παρήγγειλα. Pass.: pf. ptc. παρηγγελμένος 3 Macc 4:14 (Aeschyl., Hdt.+; ins, pap, LXX; TestSol 26:4 B; Test12 Patr; ApcSed 9:5; ApcEsdr 4:28 p. 29, 2 Tdf.; Philo, Joseph., Just.) to make an announcement about someth. that must be done, give orders, command, instruct, direct of all kinds of persons in authority, worldly rulers, Jesus, the apostles. Abs. παραγγέλλων in giving my instructions 1 Cor 11:17. W. pres. inf. foll. Ac 15:5; w. acc. and aor. inf. foll. 1 Ti 6:13f v.l. τὶ direct, urge, insist on (Philo, Spec. Leg. 3, 80) 2 Th 3:4; 1 Ti 4:11; 5:7. τινί (Jos., Ant. 2, 311) urge παραγγείλαντες αὐτοῖς Ac 15:5 v.l.; direct, command someone καθὼς ὑμῖν παρηγγείλαμεν 1 Th 4:11; pass. τὰ παρηγγελμένα τινί what someone was told (to do) short ending of Mk. τινί w. λέγων and dir. discourse foll. Mt 10:5. τινί τι w. ὅτι and dir. disc. foll. 2 Th 3:10.—τινί w. aor. inf. foll. (Philo, Poster. Cai. 29; Jos., C. Ap. 1, 244; Just., D. 14, 3; Hippol., Ref. 5, 26, 22. S. also Iren. 1, prol. 2 [Harv. I 4, 5]) Mt 15:35; Mk 8:6; Lk 8:29; Ac 10:42; 16:18 (s. Mlt. 119). τινί w. pres. inf. foll. (1 Km 23:8) Ac 16:23; 23:30; 1 Cl 1:3; IPol 5:1. παραγγέλλειν w. an inf. and μή comes to mean forbid to do someth.: π. τινί w. aor. inf. Lk 5:14; 8:56; without the dat., which is easily supplied fr. the context Ac 23:22. π. τινί w. pres. inf. (cp. an ins fr. Dionysopolis [Ramsay, ET 14, 1903, 159] παραγγέλλω πᾶσι, μὴ καταφρονεῖν τοῦ θεοῦ; Philo, Leg. All. 1, 98; Just., D. 112, 4) Lk 9:21; Ac 1:4 (for the transition from indirect discourse to direct cp. Arrian, Anab. 5, 11, 4: Alexander παρηγγέλλετο Κρατέρῳ μὴ διαβαίνειν τὸν πόρον … ἢν Πῶρος ἐπʼ ἐμὲ ἄγῃ [the last clause is spoken by Alexander]); 1 Ti 1:3; 6:17 (s. B-D-F §409, 1); without dat. (Jos., Ant. 19, 311) 1 Cl 27:2, which can be supplied fr. the context Ac 4:18; 5:40. παραγγελίᾳ παρηγγείλαμεν ὑμῖν μὴ διδάσκειν vs. 28.—τινί w. acc. and 1 aor. inf. foll. 1 Cor 7:10; 1 Ti 6:13f; pres. inf. Ac 17:30; 23:30; 2 Th 3:6.—W. ἵνα foll. (s. ἵνα II 1aδ) 2 Th 3:12. παρήγγειλεν αὐτοῖς ἵνα μηδὲν αἴρωσιν he forbade them to take anything Mk 6:8.—DELG s.v. ἄγγελος. M-M. TW. Spicq.

ὁμολογία, ας, ἡ (ὁμολογέω; Hdt., Thu. et al.; ins, pap, LXX, Philo; Jos., Bell. 4, 92, Ant. 15, 52, C. Ap. 1, 89 al.; Just., Did., Hippol.; loanw. in rabb.)

① expression of allegiance as an action, professing, confessing (s. ὁμολογέω 4b; θανάτου καταφρονεῖν ὑπὲρ τῆς ὁμολογίας τοῦ Χριστιανισμοῦ=to disdain death in favor of confessing allegiance to Christ, Orig., C. Cels. 2, 15, 16) act. ἡ ὑποταγὴ τῆς ὁμ. ὑμῶν εἰς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον the subjection of your professing of the gospel (=your professing of the gospel finds expression in obedient subjection to its requirements) 2 Cor 9:13.

② statement of allegiance, as content of an action, confession, acknowledgment that one makes: Jesus as the ἀρχιερεὺς τῆς ὁμ. ἡμῶν the high priest of (whom) our confession (speaks) Hb 3:1. κρατεῖν τῆς ὁμ. hold fast (to) the confession 4:14. κατέχειν τὴν ὁμ, τῆς ἐλπίδος ἀκλινῆ hold fast the confession of hope without wavering 10:23. ὁμολογεῖν τὴν καλὴν ὁμ. make the good profession of faith 1 Ti 6:12 (ὁμολογέω 4b). Jesus, the first Christian martyr (s. μαρτυρέω 1c), bore witness or testified to the same good profession of faith vs. 13 (s. CTurner, JTS 28, 1927, 270–3).—ASeeberg, Der Katechismus der Urchristenheit 1903, 143; 172; 186; PFeine, D. Gestalt d. apostolischen Glaubensbekenntnisses in d. Zeit des NTs 1925; EvDobschütz, D. Apostolicum in bibl.-theol. Beleuchtung ’32; GBornkamm, Ὁμολογία: Her 71, ’36, 377–93, also ThBl 21, ’42, 56–66 (Hb); AHunter, Paul and His Predecessors ’40; PCarrington, The Primitive Christian Catechism ’40; OCullmann, Les premières confessions de foi chrétiennes ’43; VNeufeld, The Earliest Christian Confessions ’63; HvCampenhausen, Das Bekenntnis im Urchristentum, ZNW 63, ’72, 210–53.—DELG s.v. ὁμό. M-M. TW. Sv.