ὅλως

ὅλως adv. of ὅλος (Pla.+)

① a marker of highest degree on a scale of extent, completely, wholly, everywhere. ὅλως ἀκούεται it’s bandied about everywhere = it’s a matter of general knowledge, it’s the talk of the town 1 Cor 5:1 (cp. AFridrichsen, Symb Osl 13, ’34, 43f: ‘to say it at once’; Diod S 13, 16, 2 ‘continually’, ‘again and again’; Ps.-Demetr., El. c. 175; 199 R. ὅλως=‘regularly’, ‘generally’, ‘everywhere’ and can be parallel w. παντοδαποῦ; difft., s. 2 below); ἤδη οὖν ὅλως ἥττημα believe me, it’s an utter disaster 6:7 (REB: Indeed, you suffer defeat; difft., s. 2 below). Rather oft. w. a neg. not at all (X., Mem. 1, 2, 35; Dio Chrys. 53 [70], 5; 8; Philostrat., Vi. Apoll. 1, 39 p. 41, 9; Philo, Op. M. 170, Praem. 40; Jos., Vi. 221, Ant. 8, 241; TestJud 16:3; Ar. 11, 7; Just., A I, 16, 5; 43, 2 al.; Ath. 1, 2; 4, 1) μὴ ὅλ. Mt 5:34.—1 Cor 15:29; Hv 4, 1, 9; m 4, 2, 1 al. totally, altogether κατέλιπον ὁδὸν τοῦ θεοῦ they have totally abandoned God’s way ApcPt Bodl.

② pert. to being really so, with implication of being generally known, actually, in fact (POxy 1676, 31 [III A.D.] καλῶς ποιήσεις ἐλθούσα … πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἵνα ὅ. ἴδωμέν σε=you will do us a favor by coming to us … so that we actually get to see you) ὅλως ἀκούεται it is actually reported (NRSV) 1 Cor 5:1. ὅλως ἥττημα already a defeat (NRSV) 6:7. For a difft. interp. of these passages s. 1 above.—M-M.