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  • Thus, he employs thirty-four times the expression basileia ton ouranon; this is never found in Mark and Luke, who, in parallel passages, replace it by basileia tou theou, which also occurs four times in Matthew.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • As the Hebrew word for heaven is in the plural form, the New Testament writers often use the plural even when the heavens are considered as one, as in the phrase basileia ton ouranon.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

  • He uses the Greek word basileia, or kingdom, 56 times in his 28 chapters, stressing the revolutionary call of Jesus the King and of his Kingdom.

    adrianwarnock.com 2010

  • .... how would an ancient person listening to Jesus have heard this term basileia?

    Books 2009

  • Patterson would, I suspect, debate the conclusion draw by Wills on the meaning of "basileia."

    Books 2009

  • The word for "reign" (basileia) is normally translated "kingdom," but that is a misleading term.

    Books 2009

  • But basileus was also a title of the Lord Christ (kurios Christos) which Christians dared not avoid uttering (not merely on account of “the kingdom of God,” basileia tou theou, but also because Jesus had called himself by this name: John xviii. 33 f.).

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • [144] The earliest mission-preaching (Matt.x. 7 f.) with which the disciples of Jesus were charged, ran: kērussete legontes hoti ēngiken hē basileia tōn ouranōn.

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • The form basilissa for basileia was not approved by Atticists.

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

  • It is comon in the LXX, whereas basileia does not occur.

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

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