συστατικός (Tr συντατικος (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συστατικη, συστατικον (συνίστημι, which see), commendatory, introductory: ἐπιστολαί συστατικαι (A. V. epistles of commendation), 2Co_3:1 a, 1 b R G, and often in ecclesiastical writings, many examples of which have been collected by Lydius, Agonistica sacra (Zutph. 1700), p. 123, 15; (Suicer, Thesaurus Eccles. ii., 1194f). (γράμματα παῥ αὐτοῦ λαβεῖν συστατικα, Epictetus diss. 2, 3, 1; (cf. (Diogenes Laërtius 8, 87); τό κάλλος παντός ἐπιστολιου συστατικωτερον, Aristotle, in (Diogenes Laërtius 5, 18, and in Stobaeus, flor. 65, 11, 2:435, Gaisf. edition).

συστατικός systatikos 1x commendatory, recommendatory, 2Co_3:1

* συ -στατικός ( Tr . συν -), -ή , -όν ( < συνίστημι ), 1. for putting together, constructive. 2. for bringing together, introductory, commendatory: ἐπιστολή ( Arist ., Diog . L. , al. ; and v. MM , xxiv), 2Co_3:1 .†

συστατικός [page 617] commendatory, occurs in P Oxy XII. 1587 .20 (late iii/A.D.) συστατικῶν γραμμάτων : cf. 2Co_3:1 συστατικῶν ἐπισρτολῶν . Good exx. of such letters are P Goodspeed 4 (ii/B.C.) (= Selections , p. 24), P Oxy IV. 787 (A.D. 16), ib . II. 294 (A.D. 22), ib . 292 ( c . A.D. 25) (= Selections , P. 37). Other exx. of the word are P Oxy III. 505 .2 (ii/A.D.) κατὰ συστατικὸν γενόμενον , by the terms of a deed of representation (Edd.), and ib . 509 .12 (late ii/A.D.) ὁμολο [γῶ ] τὸννύ συστατικὸν πεπυῆσθαί σ [ο ]ι , I acknowledge that the contract of representation has been made with you (Edd.), and in a more general sense P Tebt II. 315 .29 (ii/A.D.) ἔχι γὰρ συστατικὰς̣ [ὅ ]π̣ως τὸν ἀπιθοῦντα μετὰ φρουρᾶς τῷ ἀρχιερῖ πέμπιν , for he has instructions to send recalcitrants under guard to the high-priest (Edd.). For συστάτης , a delegate, cf. P Oxy VIII. 1116 .5 (A.D. 363) with note, and for σύστασις , an appointment, cf. ib . II. 261 .17 (A.D. 55) εὐδοκεῖ γὰρ τῇδε τῇ συστάσει , and similarly P Tebt II. 317 .14 (A.D. 174 5). In P Flor I. 39 .4 (A.D. 396) σ̣υστάτης τῆς μελλούσης λιτου [ργεῖν φυ ]λ̣ῆς , the word appears to mean representative (see the editor s note). See s.v . συνίστημι .

συστατικός συστα^τικός, ή, όν [Etym: συνίστημι III] "introductory", ς. ἐπιστολή "a letter of introduction", NTest.

συ-στατικός (Tr. συν-), -ή, -όν (συνίστημι), __1. for putting together, constructive. __2. for bringing together, introductory, commendatory: ἐπιστολή (Arist., Diog. L., al.; and see MM, xxiv), 2Co.3:1.† (AS)