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== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56851" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_56851" /> == | ||
<p> The word occurs only in the designation of God in 1 Timothy 6:15, ‘the blessed and only [[Potentate]] (δυνάστης), the King of kings, and Lord of lords.’ This is the only instance in the | <p> The word occurs only in the designation of God in 1 Timothy 6:15, ‘the blessed and only [[Potentate]] (δυνάστης), the King of kings, and Lord of lords.’ This is the only instance in the NT in which the word δυνάστης is applied to God. It occurs with tolerable frequency in this sense in the apocryphal books, e.g. Sirach 46:5-6, 2 [[Maccabees]] 3:24; 2 Maccabees 12:15, 3 Maccabees 2:3. It is characteristic of the Pastoral [[Epistles]] to set God in the foreground as the author of salvation, and the heaping up of attributes in this passage to denote the [[Divine]] sovereignty may be merely an instance of this tendency. Some, however, find underlying it a protest against [[Gnostic]] misrepresentations, or against the growing practice of Emperor-worship. </p> <p> G. Wauchope Stewart. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_68195" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_68195" /> == | ||
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== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_62036" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_62036" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> PO'TENTATE, n. A person who possesses great power or sway a prince a sovereign an emperor, king or monarch. </p> <p> Exalting him not only above earthly princes and potentates, but above the highest of the celestial hierarchy. </p> | ||
== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78803" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78803" /> == | ||
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== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_7346" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_7346" /> == | ||
<p> ''''' pō´ten ''''' - ''''' tāt ''''' ( δυνάστης , <i> ''''' dunástēs ''''' </i> , "mighty one," from δυναμαι , <i> ''''' dúnamai ''''' </i> , "to be able"): | <p> ''''' pō´ten ''''' - ''''' tāt ''''' ( δυνάστης , <i> ''''' dunástēs ''''' </i> , "mighty one," from δυναμαι , <i> ''''' dúnamai ''''' </i> , "to be able"): A person who possesses great power and authority. Only in 1 Timothy 6:15 , "the blessed and only Potentate" (= God). The same Greek word is used of [[Zeus]] in [[Sophocles]] ( <i> Ant. </i> 608), and of God in [[Apocrypha]] (e.g. [[Sirach]] 46:5; 2 Macc 15:3, 13). It is used of men in Luke 1:52 (the King James Version "the mighty," the Revised Version (British and American) "princes") and Acts 8:27 ("of great authority"). </p> | ||
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