- παραθήκη
- παραθήκη, ης, ἡ (Hdt. et al.; Plato Comicus [V/IV B.C.], Fgm. 158 K.; Polyb. 33, 6, 4; 9; Sext. Emp., Hyp. 3, 25, 189; Vett. Val. 39, 16; 67, 24; ins, pap, LXX; TestBenj 12:2; Ps.-Phoc. 135.—Instead of this, Attic prose has παρακαταθήκη; cp. Phryn. p. 312 Lob.; Nägeli 27) property entrusted to another, deposit (cp. our ‘to lay by’) in imagery (so as early as Hdt. 9, 45 ἔπεα; also Sextus 21, the soul), in our lit. only in the pastorals and always used w. φυλάσσειν, of the spiritual heritage entrusted to the orthodox Christian. τὴν π. φυλάσσειν guard what has been entrusted (acc. to CSpicq, S. Paul et la loi des dépôts: RB 40, ’31, 481–502 [also s. lit. below], a legal t.t.) 1 Ti 6:20; 2 Ti 1:12, 14 (in the first and last passages v.l. παρακαταθήκη, q.v.). JRanft, art. ‘Depositum’ in RAC III, 778–84; RLeonhard, art. ‘Depositum’, Pauly-W. V/1, 233–36; WBarclay, ET 69, ’58, 324–27.—DELG s.v. τίθημι. M-M. TW. Spicq.
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