- ὕστερος
- ὕστερος, α, ον (Hom.+; ins, pap, LXX; PsSol 2:28; Test12Patr; AssMos Fgm. f; Ar., Just., Tat.) in our lit. used as comp. and superl. (B-D-F §62; s. Rob. 294; 488; 662).① pert. to being subsequent in a series, the second one, adj. comp. (1 Ch 29:29) ὁ ὕστερος (of two, as Aristot., Pol. 1312a, 4; Aristophon Com. [IV B.C.] 5), the latter Mt 21:31 v.l.② pert. to a point of time that is subsequent to another point of timeⓐ comp.: neut. ὕστερον as adv. (Hom. et al.) in the second place, later, then, thereafter (X., Mem. 2, 6, 7; Arrian, An. 7, 14, 10; GDI 1222, 4 [Arcadia] ὕστερον δὲ μή=later but no more; Pr 24:32; TestZeb 10:7; Jos., Bell. 7, 285, Ant. 1, 217; Just., A I, 46, 1, D. 105, 1; Tat. 31, 3) Mt 4:2; 21:29, 32 (μεταμέλ. ὕστερον: Diod S 18, 47, 2 ὕστερον μετανοήσαντες … ἀπέσχοντο=later they changed their minds and refrained; Hierocles 18 p. 460); 25:11; Mk 16:14; Lk 4:2 v.l.; J 13:36; Hb 12:11; MPol 18:1; Papias (2:15).ⓑ superl.α. ὕστερος as adj. (PsSol 2:28 τὸ ὕστερον ‘the end’; ὕστατος is not found in our lit.) last ἐν ὑστέροις καιροῖς in the last times 1 Ti 4:1 (possibly in later, i.e. future, times: Pla., Leg. 9, 865a ἐν ὑστέροις χρόνοις).β. neut. ὕστερον as adv. finally (Theophrast., Char. 5, 10; Aelian, VH 9, 33; TestJos 3:8; Jos., Ant. 16, 315; Tat. 13, 1 εἰς ὕ.) Mt 21:37; 26:60; Lk 20:32. ὕστερον πάντων last of all Mt 22:27; Lk 20:32 v.l.—DELG. M-M. TW. Spicq.
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