judgment of it, very similar to that set forth in Mt. xv. 17; 1 Co. vi. 13, cf. De Wette ad loc. [But see Meyer, Ellicott, Lightfoot.]*
ἀπο-χωρέω, -ῶ; 1 aor. ἀπεχώρησα; [fr. Thuc. down]; to go away, depart: ἀπό τινος, Mt. vii. 23; Lk. ix. 39; Acts xiii. 13; [absol. Lk. xx. 20 Tr mrg.].*
ἀπο-χωρίζω: [1 aor. pass. ἀπεχωρίσθην]; to separate, sever, (often in Plato); to part asunder: pass. ὁ οὐρανὸς ἀπεχωρίσθη, Rev. vi. 14; reflexively, to separate one’s self, depart from: ἀποχωρισθῆναι αὐτοὺς ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, Acts xv. 39.*
ἀπο-ψύχω; to breathe out life, expire; to faint or swoon away: Lk. xxi. 26. (So Thuc. 1, 134; Bion 1, 9, al.; 4 Macc. xv. 18.)*
Ἄππιος, -ου, ὁ, Appius, a Roman praenomen; Ἀππίου φόρον Appii Forum (Cic. ad Att. 2, 10; Mor. sat. 1, 5, 3), [R. V. The Market of Appius], the name of a town in Italy, situated 43 Roman miles from Rome on the Appian way,—(this road was paved with square [(?) polygonal] stone by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, B.C. 312, and led through the porta Capena to Capua, and thence as far as Brundisium): Acts xxviii. 15. [Cf.
BB.DD.]*
ἀ-πρόσ-ιτος, -ον, (προσιέναι to go to), unapproachable, inaccessible: φῶς ἀπρόσιτον, 1 Tim. vi. 16. (Polyb., Diod., [Strabo], Philo, Lcian., Plut.; φέγγος ἀπρόσιτον, Tatian c. 20; δόξα [φῶς], Chrys. [vi. 66 ed. Montf.] on Is. vi. 2.)*
ἀπρόσκοπος, -ον, (προσκόπτω, q. v.); 1. actively, having nothing for one to strike against; not causing to stumble; a. prop.: ὁδός, a smooth road, Sir. xxxv. (xxxii.) 21. b. metaph. not leading others into sin by one’s mode of life: 1 Co. x. 32. 2. passively, a. not striking against or stumbling; metaph. not led into sin; blameless: Phil. i. 10 (joined with εἰλικρινεῖς). b. without offence: συνείδησις, not troubled and distressed by a consciousness of sin, Acts xxiv. 16. (Not found in prof. auth. [exc. Sext. Emp. 1, 195 (p. 644, 13 Bekk.)].)*
ἀπροσωπολήπτως [-λήμπτως LT Tr WH; cf. reff. s. ν. Μ, μ], a word of Hellenistic origin, (α priv. and προσωπολήπτης, q. v.), without respect of persons, i. e. impartially: 1 Pet. i. 17, (Ep. of Barn. 4, 12; [Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 1, 3]). (The adj. ἀπροσωπόληπτος occurs here and there in eccl. writ.)*
ἄ-πταιστος, -ον, (πταίω, q. v.), not stumbling, standing firm, exempt from falling, (prop., of a horse, Xen. de re eq. 1, 6); metaph.: Jude 24. [Cf. W. 97 (92); B. 42 (37).]*
ἅπτω: 1 aor. ptcp. ἅψας; (cf. Lat. apto, Germ. heften); [fr. Hom. down]; 1. prop. to fasten to, make adhere to; hence, spec. to fasten fire to a thing, to kindle, set on fire, (often so in Attic): λύχνον, Lk. viii. 16; xi. 33; xv. 8, (Arstph. nub. 57; Theophr. char. 20 (18); Joseph. antt. 4, 3, 4); πῦρ, Lk. xxii. 55 [T Tr txt. WH περιψάντων]; πυράν, Acts xxviii. 2 L T Tr WH. 2. Mid., (pres. ἅπτομαι]; impf. ἡπτόμην [Mk. vi. 56 R G Tr mrg.]; 1 aor. ἡψάμην; in Sept. generally for נָגַע, הִגִּיעַ; prop. to fasten one’s self to, adhere to, cling to, (Hom. Il. 8, 67); a. to touch, foll. by the obj. in gen. [W. § 30, 8 c.; Β. 167 (146); cf. Donaldson p. 483]: Mt. viii. 3; Mk. iii. 10; vii. 33; viii. 22, etc.; Lk. xviii. 15; xxii. 51,—very often in Mt., Mk. and Lk. In Jn. xx. 17, μή μου ἅπτου is to be explained thus: Do not handle me to see whether Lam still clothed with a body; there is no need of such an examination, “for not yet” etc.; cf. Baumg.-Crusius and Meyer ad loc. [as given by Hackett in Bib. Sacr. for 1868, p. 779 sq., or B. D. Am. ed. p. 1813 sq.]. b. γυναικός, of carnal intercourse with a woman, or cohabitation, 1 Co. vii. 1, like the Lat. tangere, Hor. sat. 1, 2, 54; Ter. Heaut. 4, 4, 15, and the Hebr. נָגַע, Gen. xx. 6; Prov. vi. 29, (Plat. de legg. viii. 840 a.; Plut. Alex. Magn. c. 21). c. with allusion to the levitical precept ἀκαθάρτου μὴ ἅπτεσθε, have no intercourse with the Gentiles, no fellowship in their heathenish practices, 2 Co. vi. 17 (fr. Is. lii. 11); and in the Jewish sense, μὴ ἅψῃ Col. ii. 21 (the things not to be touched appear to be both women and certain kinds of food, so that celibacy and abstinence from various kinds of food and drink are recommended; cf. De Wette ad loc. [but also Meyer and Bp. Lghtft.; on the distinction between the stronger term ἅπτεσθαι (to handle?) and the more delicate θιγεῖν (to touch?) cf. the two commentators just named and Trench § xvii. In classic Grk. also ἅπτεσθαι is the stronger term, denoting often to lay hold of, hold fast, appropriate; in its carnal reference differing from θιγγάνειν by suggesting unlawfulness. θιγγάνειν is used of touching by the hand as a means of knowledge, handling for a purpose; ψηλαφᾶν signifies to feel around with the fingers or hands, esp. in searching for something, often to grope, fumble, cf. ψηλαφίνδα blindman’s buff. Schmidt ch. 10.]). d. to touch i. e. assail: τινός, any one, 1 Jn. ν. 18, (1 Chr. xvi. 22, etc.). [Comp.: ἀν-, καθ-, περι-άπτω.]
Ἀπφία, -ας, ἡ, Apphia, name of a woman: Philem. 2. [Apparently a Phrygian name expressive of endearment, cf. Suïdae Lex. ed. Gaisf. col. 534 a. Ἀπφά: ἀδελφῆς κ. ἀδελφοῦ ὑποκόρισμα, etc. cf. Ἀπφύς. See fully in Bp. Lghtft.’s Com. on Col. and Philem. p. 306 sqq.]*
ἀπ-ωθέω, -ῶ: to thrust away, push away, repel; in the N.T. only Mid., pres. ἀπωθέομαι (-οῦμαι); 1 aor. ἀπωσάμην (for which the better writ. used ἀπεωσάμην, cf. W 90 (86); B. 69 (61); to thrust away from one’s self, tο drive away from one's self, i. e. to repudiate, reject, refuse: τινά, Acts vii. 27, 39; xiii. 46; Ro. xi. 1 sq.; 1 Tim i. 19. (Jer. ii. 36 (37); iv. 30; vi. 19; Ps. xciii. (xciv.) 14 and often. In Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down.)*
ἀπώλεια, -ας, ἡ, (fr. ἀπόλλυμι, q. v.); 1. actively, a destroying, utter destruction: as, of vessels, Ro. ix. 22; τοῦ μύρου, waste, Mk. xiv. 4 (in Mt. xxvi. 8 without a gen.), (in Polyb. 6, 59, 5 consumption, opp. to τήρησις); the putting of a man to death, Acts xxv. 16 Rec.; by meton. a destructive thing or opinion: in plur. 2 Pet. ii. 2 Rec.; but the correct reading ἀσελγείαις was long ago adopted here. 2. passively, a perishing, ruin, destruction; a. in general: τὸ ἀργύριόν σου σύν σοι εἴη εἰς ἀπ. let thy money perish with thee, Acts viii. 20; βυθίζειν τινὰ εἰς ὄλεθρον κ. ἀπώλειαν, with the included idea of
