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Headword:
*spiqamh/
Adler number: sigma,941
Translated headword: hand-span
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "The prophetic text used the word figuratively in reference to God, because he holds creation together, and encompassing it with his grasp he brings everything into order and arrangement, having assigned symmetry to mountains and limits [to waters] and to all things in the cosmos their own order. He who encompasses the entirety of heaven with a small part of his own entire power, which the text figuratively called 'hand-span'."
Greek Original:*spiqamh/: tropikw=s e)pi\ tou= qeou= o( profhtiko\s lo/gos w)no/masen, o(/ti sune/xei th\n kti/sin, kai\ peridedragme/nos au)th=s ei)s ta/cin a(/panta kai\ diako/smhsin a)/gei, kai\ o)/resin i)sorropi/an kai\ me/tra, pa=si toi=s e)n tw=| ko/smw| th\n oi)kei/an ta/cin a)poklhrw/sas. o( to\n ou)rano\n o(/lon mikrw=| me/rei th=s o(/lhs au)tou= duna/mews perie/xwn: h(\n spiqamh\n tropikw=s o( lo/gos w)no/mase.
Notes:
Derived with minor modifications from Basil of
Caesarea,
On the Holy Spirit 5.7 (PG 32.80c); hence also
Catena in epistulam ad Romanos (typus Monacensis) 428. 'The prophetic text' referred to is
Isaiah 40:12
LXX, where the present headword -- nominative singular, probably a generic lexical reference -- appears in the dative singular.
For this term see also
sigma 942; and cf. under (e.g.)
alpha 518,
gamma 367,
delta 1434,
pi 63.
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 March 2014@10:04:37.
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