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... is referred to. [For many reasons I am glad the translators have preferred the reading pleonexias. The next word, chaste, sufficiently rebukes the example of Valens. For once I ...
https://biblehub.com/library/polycarp/the_epistle_of_polycarp_to_the_philippians/chapter_xi_expression_of_grief_on.htm
... these words have been rendered into our tongue, the word used by the Apostle is not pleonexia, which occurs in this passage of the Psalms; but philarguria, by which is signified ...
https://biblehub.com/library/augustine/exposition_on_the_book_of_psalms/he.htm
... There are two words in the Greek which set forth the nature of covetousness — 1. Pleonexia, which signifies an "insatiable desire of getting the world." Covetousness is a dry ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/watson/the_tenth_commandment.htm
... Eng. Ver. do, "with greediness." But Meyer denies that the word pleonexia ever means anything but "covetousness" in the New Test. So also Ellicott.-G.A.] ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_gal_eph_phi_col_thess_tim_titus_and_philemon/homily_xiii_ephesians_iv_17-19.htm
... poiomen autou kai poreuometha en tais entolais autou kai agapomen ha egapesen, apechomenoi pases adikias, pleonexias, philargurias, katalalias, pseudomarturias; me apodidontes kakon anti kakou e loidorian anti loidorias e ...
https://biblehub.com/library/lake/the_apostolic_fathers/tou_agiou_polukarpou_episkopou_smurnes.htm
... ' hon dei ton doulon tou theou enkrateuesthai; klemma, pseudos, apostreresis, pseudomarturia, pleonexia, epithumia ponera, apate, kenodoxia, alazoneia kai hosa toutois homoia eisin.6. ou dokei ...
https://biblehub.com/library/lake/the_apostolic_fathers/entole_e_2.htm
... , harpagai, pseudomarturiai, hupokriseis, diplokardia, dolos, huperephania, kakia, authadeia, pleonexia, aischrologia, zelotupia, thrasutes, hupsos, alazoneia.2. dioktai agathon, misountes aletheian, ...
https://biblehub.com/library/lake/the_apostolic_fathers/didache_ton_dodeka_apostolon.htm
... for scandalous enormities of every description. It is added, with greediness. The Greek word pleonexia, which is so translated, often signifies covetousness, (Luke 12:15; 2 ...
https://biblehub.com/library/calvin/commentary_on_galatians_and_ephesians/ephesians_4_17-19.htm
... . [4181] I. ponerian (wickedness) . [4182] I. omits pleonexia (covetousness) . [4183] The reading is doubtful: some have aphiloxenian, " ...
https://biblehub.com/library/keith/the_epistles_of_clement/chapter_xxxv_immense_is_this_reward.htm
... the beginning of idolatry.-G.A.] [388] hoKa n ton theon epleonektesen (Comp. pleonexia) . [389] [This is what the text seems to mean (palin eis ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_gal_eph_phi_col_thess_tim_titus_and_philemon/homily_xviii_ephesians_v_5.htm
... covet? There are two words in the Greek which set forth the nature of covetousness. Pleonexia, which signifies an insatiable desire of getting the world. Covetousness is a dry dropsy. Augustine ...
https://biblehub.com/library/watson/the_ten_commandments/2_1_the_tenth_commandment.htm
... , the love of money, which is too frequently the root of all evil; or pleonexia, literally, a desire of having more, or increasing in substance. And how few ...
https://biblehub.com/library/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_14_the_repentance_of.htm
... money, there is a more refined species of covetousness, mentioned by the great Apostle, pleonexia, which literally means a desire of having more; more than we have already. And ...
https://biblehub.com/library/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_87_the_danger_of.htm
... :19. The two are so closely allied that the Greek for "covetousness" (pleonexia) is used sometimes in Scripture, and often in the Greek Fathers, for sins of ...
https://biblehub.com/library/jamieson/commentary_critical_and_explanatory_on_the_whole_bible/eph_5_1-33_exhortations_to_love_.htm
... money, there is a more refined species of covetousness, mentioned by the great Apostle, pleonexia, which literally means a desire of having more; more than we have already. And ...
https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/wesley/the_danger_of_riches.htm
... hupsos dunameos, hupokrisis, diplokardia, moicheia, phonos, harpage, huperephania, mageia, pleonexia, aphobia theou; 2. dioktai ton agathon, misountes aletheian, agapontes pseudos, ou ...
https://biblehub.com/library/lake/the_apostolic_fathers/barnaba_epistole.htm
... , it is overpowered: and whatever is in excess, mars all. For this is pleonexia, the wanting to have more than what is marked off and allotted. So too in ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_acts_and_romans/homily_li_acts_xxiv_22.htm
... , as below where this benefit is mentioned, huper tou kektemenou. [432] aitiai pleonexias. Edd. from E. itamous; ta de entautha pan tounantion. "make them ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_acts_and_romans/homily_xviii_acts_vii_54.htm
... 397, [780] 400, [781] 420, [782] 450. Pleonexia, defined and illustrated, [783] 307. Poneros, well named for ponhein, ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_acts_and_romans/index_of_subjects.htm
... [1142] Stopping the passage thus, the present reading may stand. [1143] pleonexia seems here to be used for "superiority," if the reading of B. ( ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_gal_eph_phi_col_thess_tim_titus_and_philemon/homily_iv_1_timothy_i.htm
... promised blessings, by the grace and lovingkindness, &c . Footnotes: [991] pleonexia, E.V. "covetousness." [The corresponding verb is here inadequately translated "wrong ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_gal_eph_phi_col_thess_tim_titus_and_philemon/homily_v_1_thessalonians_iv.htm
... 1305] See Libanius, Or. 7. [1306] epadomen. [1307] pleonexias kai huponoias. The latter is literally suspicion, but in ver. 4he seems to render ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_gal_eph_phi_col_thess_tim_titus_and_philemon/homily_xvii_1_timothy_vi.htm
... 131] a gonias. [132] euschemonos, "decently." [133] pleonexias. [134] i[tameuomenoi. [135] e pispasometha. [136] ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_the_gospel_of_st_john_and_hebrews/homily_v_john_i_3.htm
... incestuous person. [544] So two mss. ap. Field. [545] pleonexia. [546] sunechos. Scripture Reference ...
https://biblehub.com/library/chrysostom/homilies_on_the_epistles_of_paul_to_the_corinthians/homily_iv_2_cor_i.htm
... they have, they still desire more, and therefore Covetousness in Scripture is ordinarily expressed by pleonexia, which properly signifies an inordinate Desire of having more, which kind of Desires can never ...
https://biblehub.com/library/beveridge/private_thoughts_upon_a_christian_life/thoughts_upon_worldly_riches_sect.htm
