τέλος

tevlo" tevlo",
tevlou",
tov (cf. Curtius, sec. 238), from Homer down, the Septuagint mostly for $qe;1. end, i. e. a. termination, the limit at which a thing ceases to be, (in the Greek writings always of the end of some act or state, but not of the end of a period of time, which they call
teleuthv; in the Scriptures also of a temporal end; an end in space is everywhere called
pevra"):
th'"
basileiva", ;
zwh'", ;
tou'
katargoumevnou, ;
tav
tevlh
tw'n
aijwvnwn, (
tevlo"
tw'n
hJmerw'n, ;
tw'n
eJptav
ejtw'n, :
ajrchv
kaiv
tevlo"
kaiv
mesovth"
crovnwn Sap. ); equivalent to he who puts an end to:
tevlo"
novmou
Cristov", Christ has brought the law to all end (
pa'sin
Cristov"
ajnqrwvpoi"
tevlo"
tou'
bivou
qavnato". Demosthenes, 1306, 25), ; cf. Fritzsche at the passage, vol. ii, p. 377f
pavntwn
tov
tevlo", the end of all things (i. e. of the present order of things), ; also in the phrases
e{w"
tevlou", ; ;
mevcri
tevlou", (Tr marginal reading WH brackets the clause), 14;
a[cri
tevlou", ; . What `end' is intended the reader must determine by the context; thus,
tov
tevlo" denotes the end of the Messianic pangs (dolores Messiae; see
wjdivn) in , (opposed to
ajrchv
wjdivnwn); (cf. 9); ;
tov
tevlo" in denotes either the end of the eschatological events, or the end of the resurrection i. e. the last or third act of the resurrection (to include those who had not belonged to the number of
oiJ
tou'
Cristou'
ejn
th'/
parousiva
aujtou'), cf. ; see DeWette ad loc.; Weizel in the Theol. Studien und Kritiken for 1836, p. 978; Grimm in the Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Theol. for 1873, p. 388ff; (yet cf. Heinrici in Meyer (6te Aufl.) at the passage).
eij"
tevlo" -- to the very end apointed for these evils, ; ; ; also at the end, at last, finally, (Vulgate in novissimo) (i. e. lest at last by her coming she wear me out; but others take it equivalent to Hebrew jx'n<l; (cf. etc. see Trommius) and connect it with the participle, lest by her coming to the last i. e. continually; see
uJpwpiavzw, under the end); (others, to the uttermost, completely (cf. our to the very last); see Westcott, and Weiss (in Meyer 6te Aufl.) at the passage; Grimm on ), cf.
ajnapavw, under the end (Xenophon, oec. 17, 10; Hesiod, Works, 292; Herodotus 3, 40; 9, 37; Sophocles ; ; Euripides, Ion 1615; Aelian v. h. 10, 16); to the (procurement of their) end, i. e. to destruction (A. V. to the uttermost (cf. references as above)), (for hl;k;l], );
tevlo"
e[cein, to have an end, be finished (often in Greek writings), (others give
tevlo" here the sense of fulfilment (cf.
televw, 2)); equivalent to to perish, <<ref:BHS/GNT_Mar 3:26$$M