παράδοσις

paravdosi" paravdosi",
paradosew",
hJ (
paradivdwmi), a giving over, giving up; i. e.1. the act of giving up, the surrender: of cities, Polybius 9, 25, 5; Josephus, b. j. 1, 8, 6;
crhmavtwn, Aristotle, pol. 5, 7, 11, p. 1309{a}, 10.2. a giving over which is done by word of mouth or in writing, i. e. tradition by instruction, narrative, precept, etc. (see
paradivdwmi, 4); hence, equivalent to instruction, Epictetus diss. 2, 23, 40; joined with
didaskaliva, Plato, legg. 7, p. 803 a. objectively, what is delivered, the substance of the teaching: so of Paul's teaching, ; in plural of the particular injunctions of Paul's instruction, ; . used in the singular of a written narrative, Josephus, contra Apion 1, 9, 2; 10, 2; again, of the body of precepts, especially ritual, which in the opinion of the later Jews were orally delivered by Moses and orally transmitted in unbroken succession to subsequent generations, which precepts, both illustrating and expanding the written law, as they did, were to be obeyed with equal reverence (Josephus, Antiquities 13, 10, 6 distinguishes between
tav
ejk
paradosew"
tw'n
patevrwn and
tav
gegrammevna, i. e.
tav
ejn
toi'"
Mwu>sevw"
novmoi"
gegrammevna
novmima): f,6; ,,,; with
tw'n
ajnqrwvpwn added, as opposed to the divine teachings, ; (where see Lightfoot);
patrikai
paradovsei", precepts received from the fathers, whether handed down in the O. T. books or orally, ((others restrict the word here to the extra-biblical traditions; cf. Meyer or Lightfoot at the passage). Cf. B. D. American edition under the word Tradition.)*