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metewrivzw metewrivzw: (present imperative passive 2 person plural
metewrivzesqe; (see below)); (from
metevwro" in mid-air, high; raised on high; metaphorically, a. elated with hope, Diodorus 13, 46; lofty, proud, Polybius 3, 82, 2; 16, 21, 2; the Septuagint . b. wavering in mind, unsteady, doubtful, in suspense: Polybius 21, 10, 11; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 8, 2; b. j. 4, 2, 5; Cicero, ad Att. 5, 11, 5; 15, 14; hence,
metewrivzw);1. properly, to raise on high (as
nau'n
eij"
tov
pevlago", to put a ship (out to sea) up upon the deep, Latin propellere in altum, Philostr. v. Ap. 6, 12, 3 (cf. Thucydides 8, 16, 2);
tov
e[ruma, to raise fortifications, Thucydides 4, 90):
eJautovn, of birds, Aelian h. a. 11, 33; passive
metewrivzesqai
h[
kapnovn
h[
koniortovn; Xenophon, Cyril 6, 3, 5; of the wind,
a[nemo"
xhrov"
metewrisqei", Aristophanes nub. 404; and many other examples also in secular authors; in the Septuagint cf. ; ; .2. metaphorically, a. to lift up one's soul, raise his spirits; to buoy up with hope; to inflate with pride: Polybius 26, 5, 4; 24, 3, 6 etc.; joined with
fusan, Demosthenes, p. 169, 23; Philo, vit. Moys. i. sec. 35; (quis rer. div. her. sec. 14, 51; cong. erud. grat. sec. 23); passive to be elated; to take on airs, be puffed up with pride: Aristophanes av. 1447; often in Polybius; Diodorus 11, 32, 41; 16, 18 etc.; (); ; with the addition of
thvn
diavnoian, . Hence,
mhv
metewrivzesqe, , some (following the Vulgate nolite in sublime tolli) think should be interpreted, do not exalt yourselves, do not seek great things (Luth. fahret nicht hoch her); but this explanation does not suit the preceding context. b. by a metaphor taken front ships that are tossed about on the deep by winds and waves, to cause one to waver or fluctuate in mind, Polybius 5, 70, 10; to agitate or harass with cares to render anxious: Philo de monarch. sec. 6; Schol. ad Sophocles Oed. Tyr. 914; ad Euripides, Or. 1537; hence, agreeably to its connection is best explained, neither be ye anxious, or and waver not between hope and fear (A. V. neither be ye of doubtful mind (with marginal reading Or, live not in careful suspense)). Kuinoel on Luke, the passage cited discusses the word at length; and numerous examples from Philo are given in Loesner, Observations, p. 115ff*