μαρτύριον

martuvrion martuvrion,
marturivou,
tov (
mavrtur (cf.
mavrtu")), (from Pindar, Herodotus down), the Septuagint for d[e, hd;[e, more often for tWd[e (an ordinance, precept); most frequently for d[e/m (an assembly), as though that came from dW[ to testify, whereas it is from d['y: to appoint; testimony; a. with a genitive of the subjunctive:
th'"
suneidhvsew", ; with the genitive of object:
ajpodidovnai
tov ...
th'"
ajnastavsew"
!Ihsou', . b.
tou'
Cristou', concerning Christ the Saviour (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 30, 1 a.): the proclamation of salvation by the apostles is so called (for reasons given under
marturevw, at the beginning), ; also
tou'
kurivou
hJmw'n, ;
tou'
Qeou', concerning God (Winer's Grammar, as above), i. e. concerning what God has done through Christ for the salvation of men, (here WH text
musthvrion); with the subject. genitive
hJmw'n, given by us, .
eij"
martuvrion
tw'n
lalhqhsomevnwn, to give testimony concerning those things which were to be spoken (in the Messiah's time) i. e. concerning the Christian revelation, ; cf. Delitzsch at the passage (others refer it to the Mosaic law (, especially 8); cf. Riehm, Lehrbegriff d. ). c.
eij"
martuvrion
aujtoi'" for a testimony unto them, that they may have testimony, i. e. evidence, in proof of this or that: e. g. that a leper has been cured, ; ; ; that persons may get knowledge of something the knowledge of which will be for their benefit, ; ; ; that they may have evidence of their impurity, ; in the same case we find
eij"
martuvrion
ejp!
aujtouv", for a testimony against them (cf.
ejpiv, C. I. 2 g.
g.
bb.), ;
ajpobhvsetai
uJmi'n
eij"
martuvrion, it will turn out to you as an opportunity of bearing testimony concerning me and my cause, ;
eij"
martuvrion
uJmi'n
e[stai, it will serve as a proof of your wickedness, ; by apposition to the whole preceding clause (Winer's Grammar, sec. 59, 9 a.),
tov
martuvrion
kairoi'"
ijdivoi", that which (to wit, that Christ gave himself as a ransom) would be (the substance of) the testimony equivalent to was to be testified (by the apostles and the preachers of the gospel) in the times fitted for it, (where Lachmann omits
tiv
martuvrion); cf. the full exposition of this passage in Fritzsche, Ep. ad Romans iii., p. 12ff;
hJ
skhnhv
tou'
marturivou, ; ; in the Septuagint very often for d[e/mAlh,ao (see above), and occasionally for tWd[eh; lh,ao, as ; , etc.*