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									    		σωτήριος, 
σωτήριον (
σωτήρ), from 
Aeschylus, 
Euripides, 
Thucydides down, 
saving, bringing salvation: 
ἡ χάρις ἡ σωτήριος, 
Titus 2:11 (Wis. 1:14; 3Macc. 7:18; 
ἡ σωτήριος δίαιτα, 
Clement of Alexandria, Paedag., p. 48 edition Sylb.). Neuter 
τό σωτήριον (the 
Sept. often for 
יְשׁוּעָה, less frequently for 
יֶשַׁע ), as often in Greek writings, substantively, 
safety, in the N. T. (the Messianic) 
salvation (see 
σῴζω, b. and in 
σωτηρία): with 
τοῦ Θεοῦ added, decreed by God, 
Luke 3:6 (from 
Isaiah 40:5); 
Acts 28:28; 
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 35, 12 [ET]; 
he who embodies this salvation, or through whom God is about to achieve it: of the Messiah, 
Luke 2:30 (
τό σωτήριον ἡμῶν, 
Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, 
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 36, 1 [ET] (where see Harnack)); simply, equivalent to 
the hope of (future) salvation, Ephesians 6:17. (In the 
Sept. τό σωτήριον is often used for 
שֶׁלֶם, a thank-offering (or 'peace-offering'), and the plural occurs in the same sense in 
Xenophon, 
Polybius, 
Diodorus, 
Plutarch, 
Lucian, 
Herodian.) 
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