Question about the little Kittle

[davidmedina]

Is there any benefit of having the little Kittle?  Should I get the larger Kittle over the little?

Edited June 5, 2015 by davidmedina

[R. Mansfield]

For reference: full Kittel

For reading/study/devotional: little Kittel

 

By the way, I'm not kidding about using the little Kittel for devotional purposes. While I've never done this myself, I've heard of others doing it, and it certainly does not seem unreasonable. 

[Daniel Francis]

I use little kittel mostly but have booth when I got the full in a base package.

 

archēgós, a. The “hero” of a city, its founder or guardian; b. the “originator” or “author” (e.g., Zeus of nature or Apollo of piety); c. “captain.” Philo uses the term for Abraham, and once for God, while the LXX mostly has it for “military leader.” In the NT Christ is archēgós in Acts 5:31: we bear his name and he both looks after us and gives us a share of his glory, especially his life (3:15) and salvation (Heb. 2:10); he is also the archēgós of our faith both as its founder and as the first example when in his death he practiced his faith in God’s love and its overcoming of the barrier of human sin (Heb. 12:2).

 

TDNT (Abridged), s.v. “ἄρχω ἀρχή ἀπαρχή ἀρχαῖος ἀρχηγός ἄρχων,” 83.

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And yes I am one of those who find it very useful devotionally.

 

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ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

  ἀρχηγός.1

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

  This gives us already b. the “originator” or “author” (Zeus ἀρχηγὸς φύσεως, Cleanthes Fr., 537, 2 [i, 121, 35, v. Arnim]). 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

  Metaph., I, 3, p. 983b, 20 f.) and the cultus in the widest sense (Apollo ἀρχηγὸς τῆς εὐσεβείας, Ditt. 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

  On the other hand, the hero-ἀρχηγός concept also has the subsidiary sense of c. “captain.” 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

  In the LXX the ἀρχηγός is usually the political or military “leader” of the whole people, or of a part of it. 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

  to 1 Macc. 9:61): ἀρχηγὸς τῆς ἁμαρτίας (ἀρχηγοὶ τῆς κακίας): the ἀρχηγός is the leader and example in an action, who stirs others to follow. 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

  The superiority of the ἀρχηγός emerges in 1 Macc. 10:47, where only by his εἰρηνεύειν is it made possible for weaker parties to act at all. 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

In the NT Christ is the ἀρχηγός. 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

It is in this sense that Christ is the ἀρχηγὸς καὶ σωτήρ (Ac. 5:31). 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

saying which is part of the evangelistic preaching of Peter in 3:15 He is particularly the ἀρχηγὸς τῆς ζωῆς. 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

Christ is the ἀρχηγὸς τῆς σωτηρίας. 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

In 12:2 He is similarly called the “Author” and “Founder” of Christian faith (ἀρχηγὸς τῆς πίστεως), and more particularly, according to the context, of the resultant moral consequences. 

 

ἀρχηγός Strong’s Greek #747

Yet Jesus is also ἀρχηγὸς τῆς πίστεως in the sense that as the first man He gave an example of faith in God, that by His death He “fulfilled” this faith in God’s unconditional love and its overcoming of the barrier of sin, and that He thereby gave this love concrete and once-for-all actualisation in the history of salvation.4

 

3. Christ and the Unity of the Church. Strong’s Greek #1520

Nu. r., 10), so the εἷς ἄνθρωπος Ἰησοῦς is called the κεφαλή of the new race, πρωτότοκος, ἀπαρχή.19 

 

3. The Grounding of Life in Jesus Christ. Strong’s Greek #979, Strong’s Greek #980, Strong’s Greek #2198, Strong’s Greek #2222

He is the ἀρχηγὸς τῆς ζωῆς (Ac. 3:15). 

 

Gerhard Kittel, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, and Gerhard Friedrich, Eds., Theological dictionary of the New Testament, 1964–.

 

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I purposely choose a more obscure word to keep the example short, as you see there is more information in the 10 volume work but little kittel is defiantly a volume worth owning.

 

-dan

Edited June 5, 2015 by Dan Francis

[davidmedina]

Thanks.