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									    		παρεπίδημος, 
παρεπιδημον (see 
ἐπιδημέω), properly, "one who comes from a foreign country into a city or land to reside there by the side of the natives; hence, stranger; sojourning in a strange place, a foreigner" (
Polybius 32, 22, 4; 
Athen. 5, p. 196 a.); in the N. T. metaphorically, in reference to heaven as the native country, 
one who sojourns on earth: so of Christians, 
1 Peter 1:1; joined with 
πάροικοι, 
1 Peter 2:11, cf. 
1:17, (Christians 
πατριδας οἰκοῦσιν ἰδίας, 
ἀλλ' ὡς πάροικοι. 
μετεχουσι πάντων ὡς πολῖται, 
καί πανθ' ὑπομένουσιν ὡς ξένοι. 
πᾶσα ξένῃ πατρίς ἐστιν αὐτῶν καί πᾶσα πατρίς ξένῃ, Ep. ad 
Diogn. c. 5 [ET]); of the patriarchs, 
ξένοι καί παρεπίδημοί ἐπί τῆς γῆς, 
Hebrews 11:13 (
Genesis 23:4; 
Psalm 38:13 (
Ps. 39:13); 
παρεπιδημια τίς ἐστιν ὁ βίος, 
Aeschines dial. 
Socrates 3, 3, where see Fischer). 
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