STRONGS G585:
ἀπόδειξις,
-εως,
ἡ, (
ἀποδείκνυμι, which see) [from Herodotus down];
a. a making manifest, showing forth.
b. a demonstration, proof:
ἀπόδειξις πνεύματος καὶ δυνάμεως a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating in me, and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them,
1 Corinthians 2:4 (contextually opposed to proof by rhetorical arts and philosophic arguments — the sense in which the Greek philosophers use the word; [see
Heinrici, Corinthierbr. i., p. 103f]).
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