- παράδεισος
- παράδεισος, ου, ὁ (Old Persian pairidaêza [Avestan form; s. WHinz, Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen, ’75, 179]=‘enclosure’; Hebr. פַּרְדֵּס. In Gk. X.+; gener. ‘garden’; freq. pap., s. also New Docs 2, 201) in our lit., except GJs 2:4, not of any formal garden (as also TestAbr A 4 p. 80, 23 [Stone p. 8, 23] ApcrEzk Fgm. a) or park, but only① the garden of Eden, paradise (Gen 2f; Philo; Jos., Ant. 1, 37; SibOr 1, 24; 26; 30; Iren. 5, 5, 1 [Harv. II 331, 3]; Orig., C. Cels. 7, 50, 31; Hippol., Did., Theoph. Ant. 2, 22 [p. 154, 21]), lit. Dg 12:3, and in the same connection fig., of those who love God, οἱ γενόμενοι παράδεισος τρυφῆς who prove to be a luscious paradise, in so far as they allow fruit-laden trees to grow up within them 12:1 (cp. PsSol 14:3).② a transcendent place of blessedness, paradise (ὁ παράδεισος τῆς δικαιοσύνης appears as such En 32:3; cp. 20:7; TestLevi 18:10; SibOr Fgm. 3, 48 and other passages in the OT pseudepigrapha not preserved in Gk., as well as other sources in the lit. given below.—Dssm., B 146 [BS 148]) Lk 23:43 (JWeisengoff, EcclRev 103, ’40, 163–67). ὡς ἐν π. AcPl Ha 3, 23. More fully ὁ π. τοῦ θεοῦ (Gen 13:10; Ez 28:13; 31:8; PGM 4, 3027 ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ ἑαυτοῦ [=τ. θεοῦ] παραδείσῳ) Rv 2:7. ἁρπάζεσθαι εἰς τὸν π. be caught up into Paradise 2 Cor 12:4.—S. on οὐρανός 1e and τρίτος 1a. Further, Bousset, Rel.3 282ff; 488ff; PVolz, D. Eschatologie der jüd. Gemeinde im ntl. Zeitalter ’34, 417f; Billerb. IV 1118–65; Windisch on 2 Cor 12:4; AWabnitz, Le Paradis du Hadès: RTQR 19, 1910, 328–31; 410–14; 20, 1911, 130–38.—DELG. M-M. TW.
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