STRONGS G1296:
διαταγή,
-ῆς,
ἡ, (
διατάσσω), a purely Biblical [2 Esdr. 4:11] and ecclesiastical word (for which the Greeks use
διάταξις),
a disposition, arrangement, ordinance:
Romans 13:2;
ἐλάβετε τὸν νόμον εἰς διαταγὰς ἀγγέλων,
Acts 7:53, ye received the law, influenced by the authority of the ordaining angels, or because ye thought it your duty to receive what was enjoined by angels (
at the ministration of angels [nearly equivalent to as being the ordinances etc.], similar to
εἰς ὄνομα δέχεσθαι,
Matthew 10:41; see
εἰς, B. II 2 d.; [Winers Grammar, 398 (372), cf. 228 (214), also Buttmann, 151 (131)]). On the Jewish opinion that angels were employed as God's assistants in the solemn proclamation of the Mosaic law, cf.
Deuteronomy 33:2 Sept.;
Acts 7:38;
Galatians 3:19;
Hebrews 2:2; Josephus, Antiquities 15, 5, 3; [Philo de somn. i. § 22; Bp. Lightfoot's Commentary on Galatians, the passage cited].
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