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πα^λιγ-γενεσία , ἡ,
A.rebirth, regeneration, of the world, παλιγγενεσίας ἡγεμόνες, of Noah and his sons, Id.2.144; “ἡ ἀνάκτησις καὶ π. τῆς πατρίδος” J. AJ11.3.9; renewal of a race, Corp.Herm.3.3; of persons, beginning of a new life, “εἰς π. ὁρμᾶν” Ph.1.159, cf. Luc.Musc.Enc.7: hence of restoration after exile, Cic.Att.6.6.4; transmigration, reincarnation of souls, Plu.2.998c; cf. μετεμψύχωσις fin.
2. in Stoic Philos., rebirth of the κόσμος, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.191: pl., ib.187, Boeth.Stoic. 3.265; so later, “ἡ περιοδικὴ π. τῶν ὅλων” M.Ant.11.1, cf. Procl. in Ti.3.241 D.
3. Medic., relapse, Gal.13.83; regrowth of a tumour, Antyll. ap. Orib.45.2.7.
II. in Roman Law, = restitutio natalium, Just.Nov.18.11.
III. in NT.,
1. resurrection, Ev.Matt.19.28.
2. regeneration by baptism, “διὰ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας” Ep.Tit.3.5.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 6.6.4
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 11.3.9
    • New Testament, Titus, 3.5
    • Lucian, Muscae Encomium, 7
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 11.1
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