πίστις

pivsti" pivsti",
pivstew",
hJ (
peivqw (which see)), from (Hesiod, Theognis, Pindar), Aeschylus, Herodotus down; the Septuagint for hn:Wma>, several times for tm,a> and hn:m;a}; faith; i. e.:1. conviction of the truth of anything, belief (Plato, Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch;
qaumavsia
kaiv
meivzw
pivstew", Diodorus 1, 86); in the N. T. of a conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervor born of faith and conjoined with it: (where
pivsti" is called
ejlpizomevnwn
uJpovstasi",
pragmavtwn
e[legco"
ouj
blepomevnwn); opposed to
ei\do", ; joined with
ajgavph and
ejlpiv", . a. when it relates to God,
pivsti" is "the conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things, the provider and bestower of eternal salvation through Christ": ; ; ;
pivsti"
ejpiv
Qeovn, ;
hJ
pivsti"
uJmw'n
hJ
prov"
tovn
Qeovn, by which ye turned to God, ;
thvn
pivstin
uJmw'n
kaiv
ejlpivda
eij"
Qeovn, directed unto God, ; with a genitive of the object (faith in) (
tw'n
qew'n, Euripides, Med. 414;
tou'
Qeou', Josephus, contra Apion 2, 16, 5; cf. Grimm, Exgt. Hdbch. on Sap. vi., 17f, p. 132; (cf. Meyer on ; also Meyer, Ellicott, Lightfoot on Col. as below; Winer's Grammar, 186 (175))):
hJ
pivsti"
th'"
ejnergeiva"
tou'
Qeou'
tou'
ejgeivranto"
aujtovn (Christ)
ejk
tw'n
nekrw'n, ;
diav
pivstew", by the help of faith, ,;
katav
pivstin, equivalent to
pisteuvonte", ;
pivstei, dative of means or of mode by faith or by believing, prompted, actuated, by faith, f,7-9,17,20-24,27-29,31; dative of cause, because of faith, ,,. b. in reference to Christ, it denotes "a strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God" (on this see more at length in
pisteuvw, 1 b.
g.);
a. universally: with the genitive of the object (see above, in a.),
!Ihsou'
Cristou', ; ; ; ;
!Ihsou', ;
Crsitou, ;
tou'
uiJou'
tou'
Qeou', ;
tou'
kurivou
hJmw'n
!Ihsou'
Cristou', ;
mou (i. e. in Christ), (certainly we must reject the interpretation, faith in God of which Jesus Christ is the author, advocated by Van Hengel, Ep. ad , , p. 314ff, and H. P. Berlage, Disquisitio de formulae Paulinae
yiti"
!Ihsou'
Cristou' signifieatione. Lugd. Bat. 1856);
tou'
eujaggelivou, ;
ajlhqeiva", , with prepositions:
eij" (toward (cf.
eij", B. II. 2 a.))
tovn
kuvrion
hJmw'n
!Ihsou'n, ;
eij"
Cristovn, ; ;
hJ
eij"
Cristovn
pivsti"
uJmw'n, ; (
pivstin
e[cein
eij"
ejmev, Tr marg