Wednesday, 27 November 2013

The "Cleansing" of the Temple of Daniel 8.14 -- The Septuagint

Καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ, ἕως ἑσπέρας καὶ πρωὶ ἡμέραι δισχίλιαι καὶ τετρακόσιαι, καὶ καθαρισθήσεται τὸ ἅγιον.
And he said to him, Evening and morning there shall be two thousand and four [three] hundred days; and then the sanctuary shall be cleansed.
 Daniel 8:14 (Septuagint)
(Brenton, Lancelot Charles Lee, The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1879, p. 1063.)

καθαρίζω, later form for καθαίρω, to cleanse, Lxx, N. T. [...]
"καθαρίζω," Liddell, Henry George and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, 6th ed., rev. and aug., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869 (, p. 752).

καθαίρω [...] I. of the person or thing purified, to make pure or clean, cleanse, clean, purge, [...] 2. in religious sense, to cleanse, purify, [...]
"καθαίρω," Liddell, Henry George and Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, 6th ed., rev. and aug., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869 (, p. 751).

καθαρίζω [...] 1. to make clean, to cleanse: a. from physical stains and dirt [...] b. in a moral sense; α. to free from the defilement of sin and from faults; to purify from wickedness [...] β. to free from the guilt of sin, to purify [...] 2. to pronounce clean in a levitical sense [...]
"καθαρίζω," Thayer, Joseph Henry, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, cor. ed., New York; Cincinnati; Chicago: American Book Company, 1889 (, p. 312).




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