δόγμα

dovgma dovgma,
dogmato",
tov (from
dokevw, and equivalent to
tov
dedogmenon), an opinion, a judgment (Plato, others), doctrine, decree, ordinance;1. of public decrees (as
th'"
povlew", Plato, legg. 1, p. 644 d.; of the Roman Senate (Polybius 6, 13, 2); Herodian, 7, 10, 8 (5, Bekker edition)): of rulers, ; ; Lachmann (Theodotion in ; ; iv; 3; , etc. -- where the Septuagint uses other words).2. of the rules and requirements of the law of Moses, ;
diathvrhsi"
tw'n
aJgivwn
dogmavtwn, Philo, alleg. legg. i., sec. 16; carrying a suggestion of severity, and of threatened punishment,
tovn
novmon
tw'n
ejntolw'n
ejn
dogmasi, the law containing precepts in the form of decrees (A. V. the law of commandments contained in ordinances), ;
tov
kaq!
hJmw'n
ceirovgrafon
toi'"
dogmasi equivalent to
tov
toi'"
dogmasi (dative of instrument) by
o[n
kaq!
hJmw'n, the bond against us by its decrees, ; cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 31, 10 Note 1 (Buttmann, 92 (80); on both passages see Lightfoot on Colossians, the passage cited).3. of certain decrees of the apostles relative to right living: . (Of all the precepts of the Christian religion:
bebaiwqh'nai
ejn
toi'"
dovgmasin
tou'
kurivou
kaiv
tw'n
ajpostovlwn, Ignatius ad Magnes. 13, 1; of the precepts (`sentences' or tenets) of philosophers, in the later secular writings: Cicero, acad. 2, 9, 27 de suis decretis, quae philosophi vocant dogmata.) (On the use of the word in general, see Lightfoot as above; (cf. `Teaching' etc. 11, 3).)*