STRONGS G4287:
προθέσμιος,
προθεσμία,
προθεσμιον (
πρό (which see in d.
β.) and
θεσμός fixed, appointed),
set beforehand, appointed or determined beforehand, pre-arranged (
Lucian, Nigr. 27);
ἡ προθεσμία, namely,
ἡμέρα,
the day previously appointed; universally,
the pre-appointed time:
Galatians 4:2. (
Lysias,
Plato,
Demosthenes,
Aeschines,
Diodorus,
Philo — cf. Siegfried,
Philo, p. 113,
Josephus,
Plutarch, others; ecclesiastical writings; cf.
Kypke and Hilgenfeld on Galatians, the passage cited.)
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