παράδεισος

paravdeiso" paravdeiso",
paradeivsou,
oJ (thought by most to be of Persian orion, by others of Armenian, cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus, ii., p. 1124; (B. D., under the word; especially Fried. Delitzsch, We lag das Paradies? Leipzig 1881, pp. 95-97; cf. Max M?ller, Selected Essays, i., 129f)),1. among the Persians a grand enclosure or preserve, hunting-ground, park, shady and well-watered, in which wild animals were kept for the hunt; it was enclosed by walls and furnished with towers for the hunters: Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 14; (1, 4, 5); 8, 1, 38; oec. 4, 13 and 14; anab. 1, 2, 7, 9; Theophrastus, h. pl. 5, 8, 1; Diodorus 16, 41; 14, 80; Pint. Artax. 25, cf. Curt; 8, 1, 11.2. universally, a garden, pleasure-ground; grove, park: Lucian, v. h. 2, 23; Aelian v. h. 1, 33; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 14,4; 8, 7,3; 9,10, 4; 10, 3, 2 and 11, 1; b. j. 6, 1, 1; (c. Apion. 1, 19, 9 (where cf. M?ller)); , , , , etc.; ; and so it passed into the Hebrew language, sDer]P', ; ; ; besides in the Septuagint mostly for @G"; thus, for that delightful region, `the garden of Eden,' in which our first parents dwelt before the fall: ff; ff.3. that part of Hades which was thought  by the later Jews to be the abode of the souls of the pious until the resurrection: , cf. f. But some (e. g. Dillmann (as below, p. 379)) understand that passage of the heavenly paradise.4. an upper region in the heavens: (where some maintain, others deny, that the term is equivalent to
oJ
trivto"
oujranov" in ); with the addition of
tou'
Qeou', genitive of possessor, the abode of God and heavenly beings, to which true Christians will be taken after death, (cf. ; ; ). According to the opinion of many of the church Fathers, the paradise in which our first parents dwelt before the fall still exists, neither on earth nor in the heavens, but above and beyond the world; cf. Thilo, Cod. apocr. Nov. Test., on Evang. Nicod. c. xxv., p. 748ff; and Bleek thinks that the word ought to be taken in this sense in . Cf. Dillmann under the word Paradics in Schenkel iv. 377ff; also Hilgenfeld, Die Clement. Recogn. und Hem., p. 87f; Kl?pper on , p. 507ff ((G?ttingen, 1869). See also B. D., under the word; McClintock and Strong's Cyclopaedia, under the word; Hamburger, Real-Encyclop?die, Abtheil. ii, under the word.)*