re: MAKARIOS

From: Randall M. Tidmore (church@htg.net)
Date: Thu Sep 10 1998 - 21:46:48 EDT

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I found this on my Logos bible
software, thought it might help. --Randy
makavrio"makavrio", iva,
ion (Pind., Pla., X.+; inscr., pap., LXX, En., Philo, Joseph.)
blessed, fortunate, happy, usu. in the sense privileged recipient of
divine favor. 
1. of human beings—a. with less obvious relig.
coloring (Chrysippus in Diog. L. 7, 179 calls himself a makavrio" ajnhvr; Epict. 2, 18, 15; Jos., Ant. 16,
108; 20, 27) h{ghmai ejmauto;n makavrion Ac 26:2. Of
the widow who remains unmarried makariwtevra ejstivn
she is happier 1 Cor 7:40. m. h[mhn eij toiauvthn
gunai`ka ei\con Hv 1, 1, 2 (Charito 6, 2, 9 m. h\n
eij). Cf. Lk 23:29. 
b. with a more obvious relig. connotation (Jos., Ant. 9, 264),
of Biblical persons: Moses 1 Cl 43:1. Judith 55:4. Paul 47:1; Pol 3:2; (11:3).
Of other prominent Christians, esp. martyrs: Ignatius, Zosimus, Rufus Pol 9:1.
Polycarp MPol 1:1; 19:1, 21; 22:1, 3. Of presbyters who have died 1 Cl 44:5.
m. ei\nai ejn th`/ poihvsei aujtou` be blessed in
what he does Js 1:25.—In various sentence combinations, in which the
copula belonging with m. is often omitted (Bl-D.
§127, 4; Rob. 395; Maximus Tyr. 14, 6f; m. [opp.
dustuchv"] eujsebh;"
fivlo" qeou`): as the apodosis of a conditional sentence Lk 6:5 D
(JoachJeremias, Unknown Sayings of Jesus, tr. Fuller, ’57, 49-54); 1 Pt
3:14; 4:14; Hm 8:9. The conditional sentence follows J 13:17; 1 Cl 50:5; Hs 6,
1, 1a. W. relative clause foll. Mt 11:6; Lk 7:23; 14:15 (m.
o{sti" Menand., fgm. 114, Mon. 340 al.); Ro 4:7f (Ps 31:1f); Js 1:12
(Sext. 40 mak. ajnhvr w. rel.); 1 Cl 56:6 (Job 5:17);
B 10:10 (Ps 1:1.—Maximus Tyr. 33, 5e oJ m. ajnhvr,
o{n); 11:8; Hv 2, 2, 7; s 9, 29, 3. m. ejn jIhsou`
Cristw`/, o{" IPhld 10:2. The relative clause precedes Hv 3, 8, 4; s
5, 3, 9b; 6, 1, 1b. As a predicate w. a subst. or subst. adj. or ptc. m. oJ blessed is he who. . . (2 Ch 9:7; Da 12:12) Mt
5:3ff (the transl. 0, the happiness of or hail to those,
favored by some [Zahn, Wlh., EKlostermann, JWeiss; KBornhäuser, Die
Bergpredigt ’23, 24 a1.] may be exactly right for the Aramaic original
[=Hebr. yreÙ]Oa'
], but it scarcely exhausts the content which makavrio" had in the mouths of Gk.-speaking Christians
[cf. e.g. Maximus Tyr. 14, 6f makavrio" eujsebh;"
fivlo" qeou`, dustuch;" de; oJ deisidaivmwn; Artem. 4, 72 the
state of mak. ei\nai is brought about by ascension
into heaven and the uJperbavllousa eujdaimoniva
enjoyed there].—CCMcCown, The Beatitudes in the Light of Ancient Ideals:
JBL 46, ’27, 50-61; JRezevskis [Resewski], D. Makarismen bei Mt u. Lk, ihr
Verhältnis zu einander u. ihr histor. Hintergrund: Studia Theologica I
[=IBenzinger-Festschr.] ’35, 157-70; JDupont, Les Béatitudes
’54; GStrecker, Die Makarismen der Bergpredigt, NTS 17,
’70/’71, 255-75; see lit. s.v. o[ro"); 24:46; Lk 1:45; 6:20ff; 11:28; 12:37; cf. vs.
38, 43; J 20:29; Ro 14:22; Rv 1:3; 14:13; 16:15; 19:9; 20:6; 22:7, 14; 2 Cl
16:4; 19:3; D 1:5; Pol 2:3(=Lk 6:20). W. o{ti foll.
Mt l6:17; Lk 14:14. W. o{tan Mt 5:11. Acc. to the
reading of the Michigan Pap. (ed. CBonner ’34, p. 46) and of a parchment
leaf at Hamburg (SAB ’09, 1081) Hs 5, 1, 3 contains the words makavriovn me poihvsei", ejavn you will make me
happy, if. 

2. of God (Aristot., Eth. Nicom. 10, 8 p. 1178b, 25f toi`" qeoi`" a{pa" oJ bivo"
makavrio"; Epicurus in Diog. L. 10, 123 t. qeo;n
zw`/on a[fqarton k. makavrion nomivzwn; Herm. Wr. 12, 13b; Sextus 560;
Philo, Cher. 86, Deus Imm. 26 oJ a[fqarto" k.
makavrio", Leg. ad Gai. 5 [other pass. in MDibelius, Hdb. on 1 Ti
1:11]; Jos., C. Ap. 2, 190, cf. Ant. 10, 278) 1 Ti 1:11; 6:15 (BSEaston,
Pastoral Epistles ’47, 179). 
3. of impersonal things (Eur.+; Eccl 10:17)—a. of
parts of the body of persons who are the objects of special grace, which are
themselves termed blessed: m. oiJ ojfqalmoiv Mt
13:16; Lk 10:23. m. hJ koiliva 11:27 (Kleopatra l.
168f. Prob. Christian despite the ref. to Cleop. Of the secular parallels, the
next closest is Musaeus, Hero 137. . . gasthvr tÆ h{
sÆ ejlovceuse makartavth). 
b. of things that stand in a very close relationship to the
divinity: ta; dw`ra t. qeou` 1 Cl 35:1. Of the pneuvmata implanted in the Christians B 1:2 (cf. Maximus
Tyr. 41, 51 the eujdaivmwn k. makariva yuchv). Of the
age to come 2 Cl 19:4 (cf. Dit., Or. 519, 9 ejn toi`"
makariotavtoi" uJmw`n kairoi`"; 17). 
c. of martyrdoms MPol 2:1. Of the object of the Christian hope prosdecovmenoi th;n m. ejlpivda Tit 2:13 (cf. Dit., Or.
383, 108 makarista;" ejlpivda"). makavriovn ejstin
ma`llon didovnai h] lambavnein Ac 20:35 (cf. Pla., Rep. 496c wJ" makavrion to; kth`ma; Thu. 2, 97, 4 lambavnein ma`llon h] didovnai; Beginn. IV 264;
JoachJeremias, Unknown Sayings of Jesus, tr. Fuller, ’58, 78-81;
EHaenchen, Ac ad loc.).—FHauck u. GBertram, TW IV 365-73: makavrio",—ivzw,—ismov". S. the
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