λόγιον

lovgion lovgion,
logiou,
tov (diminutive of
lovgo" (so Bleek (on ), et al.; others, neuter of
lovgio" (Meyer on ))), properly, "a little word (so Schol. ad Aristophanes ran. 969 (973)), a brief utterance, in secular authors a divine oracle" (doubtless because oracles were generally brief); Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Euripides; Polybius 3, 112, 8; 8, 30, 6; Diodorus 2, 14; Aelian v. h. 2, 41; of the Sibylline oracles, Diodorus, p. 602 (from ); Plutarch, Fab. 4; in the Septuagint for @v,jo the breast-plate of the high priest, which he wore when he consulted Jehovah, ; , etc.; (once for rm,ao, of the words of a man, ()); but chiefly for hr;m]ai of any utterance of God, whether precept or promise; (cf. Philo de congr. erud. grat. sec. 24; de profug. sec. 11 under the end); of the prophecies of God in the O. T., Josephus, b. j. 6, 5, 4;
novmou"
kaiv
lovgia
qespisqenta
diav
profhtw'n
kaiv
u{mnou", Philo vit. contempl. sec. 3;
tov
lovgion
tou'
profhvtou (Moses), vit. Moys. , cf. (23, and) de praem. et poen. sec. 1 at the beginning;
tav
devka
lovgia, the Ten Commandments of God or the Decalogue, in Philo, who wrote a special treatise concerning them (Works edition Mang. ii., p. 180ff (edited by Richter iv., p. 246ff)); (Apostolic Constitutions 2, 36 (p. 63, 7 edition Lagarde)); Eusebius, h. e. 2, 18. In the N. T. spoken of the words or utterances of God: of the contents of the Mosaic law, ; with
tou'
Qeou' or
Qeou' added, of his commands in the Mosaic law and his Messianic promises, , cf. Philippi and Umbreit at the passage; of the substance of the Christian religion, ; of the utterances of God through Christian teachers, . (In ecclesiastical writings
lovgia
tou'
kurivou is used of Christ's precepts, by Polycarp, ad Philipp. 7, 1;
kuriaka
lovgia of the sayings and discourses of Christ which are recorded in the Gospels, by Papias in Eusebius, h. e. 3, 39; Photius c. 228, p. 248 (18 edition, Bekker); (
tav
lovgia
tou'
Qeou') of the words and admonitions of God in the sacred Scriptures, Clement of Rome, , (where parallel with
aiJ
iJerai
grafaiv), cf. 62, 9; (and
tav
lovgia simply, like
aiJ
grafaiv of the New T. in the interpolated Epistle of Ignatius ad Smyrn. 3). Cf. Schwegler ((also Heinichen)), Index 4 ad Eusebius, h. e. under the word
lovgion; (especially Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word and Lightfoot in the Contemp. Rev. for Aug. 1875, p. 399ff On the general use of the word cf. Bleek, Br. a. d. Hebrew iii., pp. 114-117).)*