STRONGS G465:
ἀντάλλαγμα,
-τος,
τό, (
ἀντί in place of, in turn, and
ἄλλαγμα see
ἀλλάσσω),
that which is given in place of another thing by way of exchange; what is given either in order to keep or to acquire anything: Matthew 16:26;
Mark 8:37, where the sense is, 'nothing equals in value the soul's salvation.' Christ transfers a proverbial expression respecting the supreme value of the natural life (Homer, Iliad 9, 401
οὐ γὰρ ἐμοὶ ψυχῆς ἀντάξιον) to the life eternal. (
Ruth 4:7;
Jeremiah 15:13; Sir. 6:15, etc.; Euripides, Or. 1157; Josephus,
b. j. 1, 18, 3.)
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