μετά-κλησις

κλῆσις, εως, ἡ (s. καλέω; Aristoph., X., Pla.; pap, LXX, TestSol, Philo, Just.; Tat. 15, 4).

① invitation to experience of special privilege and responsibility, call, calling, invitation. In our lit. almost exclusively of divine initiative (cp. κλῆσις, ἣν κέκληκεν [ὁ θεός] Epict. 1, 29, 49; s. also Maximus Tyr. 11, 11a) of the divine call, of the invitation to enter the kgdm. of God κ. ἐπουράνιος a heavenly (=divine) call Hb 3:1. ἡ κ. τοῦ θεοῦ the call that comes fr. God Ro 11:29; Lk 11:42 v.l. (Marcion’s rdg., accord. to Epiph.; the latter has κρίσις). ἵνα ἐνμίνωσι (=ἐμμείνωσι) τῇ πρὸς τὸν πατέρα κλήσι so that they might remain steadfast in their calling to the Father AcPl Ha 7, 33. ἡ ἐλπὶς τῆς κλήσεως αὐτοῦ (=τοῦ θεοῦ) the hope to which God calls Eph 1:18. ἐλπὶς τῆς κ. ὑμῶν the hope that your calling brings you 4:4. ἡ ἄνω κ. τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν Χριστῷ the upward call of God in Christ Phil 3:14; cp. 1 Cl 46:6. καλεῖν κλήσει ἁγίᾳ call with a holy calling 2 Ti 1:9; cp. Eph 4:1, 4 (cp. Orig., C. Cels. 3, 61, 21); ἀξιοῦν τινα τῆς κ. 2 Th 1:11 (s. ἀξιόω 1). ἡ κ. τινος the call that has come to someone (Orig., C. Cels. 2, 78, 5) 2 Pt 1:10. βλέπετε τὴν κ. ὑμῶν consider your call i.e., what happened when it occurred 1 Cor 1:26. κ. τῆς ἐπαγγελίας the calling of (i.e. that consists in) God’s promise B 16:9. Of baptism (s. HKoch, Die Bussfrist des Pastor Hermae: Festgabe für AvHarnack 1921, 175f) μετὰ τὴν κ. ἐκείνην τὴν μεγάλην καὶ σεμνήν after that great and sacred call Hm 4, 3, 6; ὁ κύριος θέλει τὴν κ. τὴν γενομένην διὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ σωθῆναι the Lord desires the salvation of those who are called through his Son Hs 8, 11, 1.—Cp. AcThom 50 (Aa II/2, 166, 17); ὑπὸ πάντων τῶν τῆς κλήσεως ‘by all those who are called’ Iren. 1, 4, 4 (Harv. I 136, 13); also Hippol., Ref. 6, 45, 3.

② position that one holds, position, condition (Libanius, Argumenta Orationum Demosth. 2: VIII 601, 6 F. τὴν τοῦ μαχαιροποιοῦ κλῆσιν ἔλαβεν=took up the occupation; idem Progymn. 9, 2, 1: VIII 290, 14 ἐν τῇ κλήσει ταύτῃ=in this characteristic, i.e. as Phrygians; Philo, Leg. ad Gai. 163 θεοῦ κλῆσισ=the position of a god [is a thing so sacred to the Alexandrians that they even give animals a share in it]) ἕκαστος ἐν τῇ κ. ᾗ ἐκλήθη, ἐν ταύτῃ μενέτω everyone is to remain in the (same) condition/position in which the person was when called (to salvation) 1 Cor 7:20.—For other perspectives s. KHoll, D. Gesch. des Wortes Beruf: SBBerlAk 1924, xxixff; ENorden, Antike Menschen im Ringen um ihre Berufsbestimmung: SBBerlAk ’32, p. xxxviiiff; WBieder, D. Berufung im NT ’61.—DELG s.v. καλέω. M-M. TW. Sv.

μετά-κλησις, εως, ἡ,

A summoning, J.AJ17.3.3, App.BC3.71; calling to a person, ib.5.90 (pl.).

2 recalling, J.BJ1.31.1, App.BC 3.12.

μετά-κλησις, ἡ, das Abrufen, Rufenlassen

ἄνω adv. of place (the usual adv. form of ἀνά; Hom.+).

① at a position above another position, above (opp. κάτω as Aristot. p. 6a, 13; Aeneas Tact. 1674; Philo, Conf. Ling. 139, Deus Imm. 175 al.; Jos., C. Ap. 1, 77; Tat.; Ath. 22, 6; Mel., P. 44, 314f) ἐν τ. οὐρανῷ ἄ. in the heaven above Ac 2:19 (Jo 3:3 v.l.; cp. Ex 20:4; Dt 4:39; 5:8 al.; Herm. Wr., Fgm. XXIV 1 [in Stobaeus I 407, 23 W.=Sc. 494, 28]), where ἄ. is seemingly pleonastic. The pious person ἄνω μετὰ τῶν πατέρων ἀναβιώσας εὐφρανθήσεται on high the pious will live in (eternal) joy with the ancestors 2 Cl 19:4. ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ ἔστη ἄ. the hand (of the shepherd, who intended to strike) was arrested mid-air GJs18:3 (not pap). ἕως ἄ. (2 Ch 26:8) γεμίζειν fill to the brim J 2:7.—As adj. (Diod S 4, 55, 7 οἱ ἄνω τόποι; Appian, Syr. 12 §47 ἡ Ἀσία ἡ ἄνω; Arrian, Ind. 5, 13; UPZ 162 V, 28 [117 B.C.]; Jos. Ant. 12, 135 οἱ ἄνω τόποι, 147; 13, 223 ἡ ἄ. Συρία, Vi. 67; Mel., P. 44, 314f) ἡ ἄ. Ἰερουσαλήμ (opp. ἡ νῦν Ἰ.) the Jerus. above, the heavenly (or future) Jerus. Gal 4:26 (Mel., P. 45, 316; ParJer 5:35 πόλις; s. Ἱεροσόλυμα 3 and cp. Jos., Bell. 5, 400 ὁ ἄ. δικαστής; TestAbr A 7 p. 84, 16 [Stone p. 16] ὁ ἄ. βασιλεύς, both of God).—As subst. τὰ ἄ. what is above=heaven (cp. Herm. Wr. 4, 11 τὴν πρὸς τὰ ἄνω ὁδόν; Theoph. Ant. 2, 17 [p. 142, 18] τὰ ἄνω φρονοῦντες) ἐγὼ ἐκ τῶν ἄ. εἰμί I am from the world above J 8:23. τὰ ἄ. ζητεῖν seek what is above (heavenly) Col 3:1. τὰ ἄ. φρονεῖν vs. 2.

② extension toward a goal which is up, upward(s), up (Alex. Aphr., Fat. 27, II 2 p. 198, 28 ἄνω φέρεσθαι=raise oneself upward; POxy 744, 8 [I B.C.]; I Esdr 9:47; En 14:8; Philo, Spec. Leg. 1, 207 ἀπὸ γῆς ἄνω πρὸς οὐρανόν) ἄ. ὁρᾶν look upward Dg 10:2 (in prayer as ἄνω βλέπω in Moschus, Fgm. 4 p. 139 v. Wilam. [1906]; cp. Herm. Wr. Fgm. IV 1 [406, 19 Sc.] ἄ. βλέπειν; Celsus 3, 62). Also ἦρεν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἄνω, where ἄ. is superfluous J 11:41. πάντων ἦν τὰ πρόσωπα ἄ. βλέποντα all looked up GJs 18:2 (not pap). ῥίζα ἄ. φύουσα a root growing up Hb 12:15 (Dt 29:17). ἡ ἄνω κλῆσις the upward call Phil 3:14 (cp. GrBar 4:15 ἐν αὐτῷ μέλλουσιν τ. ἀνάκλησιν [ἄνω κλῆσιν James, p. 87, 33] προσλαβεῖν, καὶ τ. εἰς παράδεισον εἴσοδον).—DELG s.v. ἀνά. M-M. TW.