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34 EPICTETUS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.
may be paralleled with the similar use of eUoiv in
N.T. :—
E.
TIVOS €)(€l TO!/
X^P^'^'^VP"^
Tovro TO rerpaaaapov Tpa-
'iavov.—Bk. IV., ch. v., \ 17.
sesterce .? Trajan's.'
'
Whose image has this
N.T.
Set^arc /uoi b-qvapiov ' Tivos
e^ft elKoua Koi emypacfirjv ; 01
de eimw Kaiaapos.—Luke xx.
24.
' " Show Me a denarius :
whose image and superscription
has it?" They said,
" Caesar's."
Also Matt. xxii. 20, Mark
16.
With these instances we may compare a development
of the use of x^P^'^'^Vp i" N.T.—09 uiv . . .
XcipaKTyp tt}? vTrocrrdaecof; avrov— Heb. i. 3, ' Who
being . . . the expression of His essence ' (Westcott
Hebrews, p. 12). As this is the only N.T. example
of the use of the word there is nothing in N.T. to
correspond to its use in E. in the sense of
*
character,' * characteristic ' : Ench. xxxiii., § i ;
xlviii., § I.
35. '>^vxn^
This term in the plural is once used in E. in the
sense of ' persons,' * individuals,' a sense which it
sometimes has in N.T. :
E.
uTonov yap oXiyais a-Ti^da-i
TToXkas 8ov\cveiv yJAv^ds.—
Stob. 23.
'
For it is absurd that many
persons should wait on a few
chairs (at meals).'
N.T.
fjixfda be at rrdaai ^v\ai
iv T(o n\oi(o las e^dofiTjKovra e^,
—Acts xxvii. 37.
*
Now we were in all in the
ship seventy-six souls.'
14.
Also Acts ii. 41, iii. 23, vii.