Excerpt from Synonyms of the New Testament, Vol. 2Hpoa'evxfi and denote often in the N. T. Occur together (phil. Iv. 6, Ephes. Vi. 18, 1 Tim. Ii. 1, v. And not unfrequently in the Septuagint (ps. Vi. 10, Dan. Ix. 21, 23, 1 Macc. Vii. There have been a great many, but for the most part not very successful, attempts to distinguish between them. Grotius, for instance, affirms that they are severally precatio and deprecatio that the first seeks to obtain good, the second to avert evil. Au gustine, I may observe by the way, in his treatment of the more important of this group of words (ep. 149, 12 which, though interesting, does '_not yield any definite results of value, observes thatin his time this distinction between precatio and deprecatio had practically quite disappeared. Theodoret in like manner, who has anticipated Gro tius here, explains Wpoqevxfi as ai'rnms' and sena-le as inrép dwakkwyfis' vwéiv huwoypéiv {fem-eta rpomepopévn: cf. Gregory of Nazianzum.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.