μετάνοια

metavnoia metavnoia,
metanoiva",
hJ (
metanoevw), a change of mind: as it appears in one who repents of a purpose he has formed or of something he has done, on which see
euJrivskw, 3 ((Thucydides 3, 36, 3); Polybius 4, 66, 7; Plutarch, Peric. c. 10; mor., p. 26 a.;
th'"
ajdelfoktonia"
metavnoia, Josephus, Antiquities 13, 11, 3); especially the change of mind of those who have begun to abhor their errors and misdeeds, and have determined to enter upon a better course of life, so that it embraces both a recognition of sin and sorrow for it and hearty amendment, the tokens and effects of which are good deeds (Lactantius, 6, 24, 6 would have it rendered in Latin by resipiscentia) (A. V. repentance): , ; , (16 Lachmann); ; ; ;
bavptisma
metanoiva", a baptism binding its subjects to repentance (Winer's Grammar, sec. 30, 2
b.), ; ; ; ; (
hJ
eij" (
tovn)
Qeovn
metavnoia, , see
metanoevw, at the end);
didovnai
tivni
metavnoian, to give one the ability to repent, or to cause him to repent, ; ; ;
tina
eij"
metavnoian
kalei'n, , and Rec. in ; ;
a[gein, (Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 10 at the end);
ajnakainivzein, ;
cwrh'sai
eij"
metavnoian, to come to the point of repenting, or be brought to repentance, (but see
cwrevw, 1 at the end);
metavnoia
ajpov
nekrw'n
e[rgwn, that change of mind by which we turn from, desist from, etc. (Buttmann, 322 (277)); used merely of the improved spiritual state resulting from deep sorrow for sin, f (: Sap. (23); ,; Or. Man. 7f ((cf. the Septuagint edition Tdf. Prolog., p. 112f)); Philo, qued det. pot. insid. sec. 26 at the beginning; Antoninus 8, 10; (Cebes, tab. 10 at the end).)*