Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel a process called aphesis; it means “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Among phonetic changes which occur with more or less regularity are those called aphesis, epenthesis, epithesis, assimilation, dissimilation, and metathesis, convenient terms which are less learned than they appear. ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)
[38] But anesis and aphesis in I.Esd. iv. 62 looks like a word-play in what may not be original Greek; though a Semitic original of that section of I.Esd. (iii. 1 to v. 6) is by no means proved. ❋ Unknown (1906)
But this transformation of the [Greek: aphesis hamartiôn] into [Greek: charis metanoias] plainly shews that Clement had merely taken over from tradition the special estimate of the death of Christ as procuring salvation; for it is meaningless to deduce the [Greek: charis metanoias] from the blood of Christ. ❋ Adolph Harnack (1890)
Testament was +paresis+ preparing the way for the complete +aphesis+ of the New. ❋ Unknown (1868)
There were other charges brought against Cocceius, however, one of which was his distinction between +aphesis hamartiôn+ and +paresis hamartiôn+, by which he held that the former was a complete pardon, but the latter incomplete, and only in force under the old dispensation. ❋ Unknown (1868)
_ [Greek: aphesis amartiôn] _ never means _forgiveness, _ one form at least of _God's_ sending away of sins; neither do I say that the taking of the phrase to mean _repentance for the remission of sins_, namely, repentance in order to obtain the pardon of God, involves any inconsistency; but I say that the word _ [Greek: eis] _ rather _unto_ than ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
(Hebrew deror or debt cancellation) and release (Greek aphesis) from debt bondage. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The oratorio's text accordingly contained references to "breaking bonds asunder" and "casting away yokes," recalling the early Christian belief that the Messiah's reign would bring liberty (Hebrew deror or debt cancellation) and release (Greek aphesis) from debt bondage. ❋ Unknown (2009)
* gnōston estō humin, hoti dia toutou humin aphesis hamartiōn katangelletai apo pantōn hōn ouk ēdunēthēte en nomō Mōuseōs dikaiōthēnai: [1084] 1 ❋ 1851-1930 (1908)
_for; _ that the word _ [Greek: aphesis], _ translated _remission_, means, fundamentally, a _sending away, _ a _dismissal; _ and that the writer seems to use the added phrase to make certain what he means by ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
I do not enter into the question whether God's aphesis may or may not mean as well the sending of his sins out of a man, as the pardon of them; whether it may not sometimes mean _dismission, _ and sometimes _remission_: I am sure the one deed cannot be separated from the other. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
_remission_ (_aphesis_) of sin, necessarily implies antecedence of law and transgression of the law; and whereas St. Paul teaches that "the law entered that transgression might abound" (Rom.v. 20), it is quite consistent with this doctrine to find that in the gospel of Christ provision is made for the remission of all sin and blasphemy. ❋ James Challis (1842)
Most etymologists believe it to be the product of aphesis, the process by which we clip unaccented vowel syllables off a word’s stem. ❋ William Safire (2004)
[146] This must have made them realize that the observance of the law, which had hitherto prevailed, was inadequate either to cancel sin or to gain righteousness; also that Jesus the Messiah had died that sins might be forgiven (gnōston estō humin, hoti dia toutou humin aphesis hamartiōn katangelletai apo pantōn hōn ouk ēdunēthēte en nomō ❋ 1851-1930 (1908)
