παλιγγενεσία

παλινγενεσία (Rec. παλιγγ-), -ας, ἡ

(πάλιν, γενεσις),

new birth, renewal, restoration, regeneration;

(a) of persons (Plut., Phil., al.), of spiritual regeneration, διὰ λουτροῦ παλινγενεστίας (genitive attr., see Ellic., in l), Tit.3:5;

(b) of the world, as in Stoics, Jewish Apocal., al. (see Dalman, Words, 177 ff.), Mat.19:28.†

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