archontes

Annual magistrates (duoviri, archontes, strategoi, grammateis) drawn from the body of municipal senators (decuriones, bouleutai) were responsible for maintaining law and order and ensuring municipal as well as imperial taxes.

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The demonic powers (archontes), not recognizing his true nature, crucified him (I Corinthians 2: 7-8).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

Incarcerated in the person of Jesus, the archontes did not recognize him and crucified him

SIN AND SALVATION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

One theme is briefly outlined in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, 2: 6ff., which presupposes a form of astralism similar to that in Gnosticism and Hermeti - cism, namely, that mankind is in a state of hopeless subjection to the daemonic powers (archontes) that inhabit the planets.

SIN AND SALVATION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

They ceased, indeed, to be worshipped as deities, but they remained archontes and dynameis, rules and powers whose almost irresistible force was dreaded by man.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Some writers, as has been seen, believe with Holtzmann that in the episcopi and presbyteri, there is simply the synagogal system of archontes and hyperetai.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

He notes on v. 8, tauta men oun hoi tōn Ioudaiōn archontes boulontai gun perikoptein tēs biblou, phaskontes mē genesthai tauta en Babulōni; aischunomenoi to hupo tōn presbuterōn kat 'ekeinon ton kairon gegenēmenon.

The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

Plato is going to add to his rule of life, for the archontes, + who are to be philopolides, + to love the corporate body they belong to better than themselves, is in its actual effects something very like a law of celibacy.

Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866

* [1177] tauta men oun hoi tōn Ioudaiōn archontes boulontai gun perikoptein tēs biblou, phaskontes mē genesthai tauta en Babulōni; aischunomenoi to hupo tōn presbuterōn kat 'ekeinon ton kairon gegenēmenon

The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study. 1906

* oi archontes ton [ethnon] exousiazousin auton, kai: [2336] 1

The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871