ἀποκατάστασις apokatastasis 1x

pr. a restitution or restoration of a thing to its former state; hence, the renovation of a new and better era, Acts 3:21*

* ἀπο-κατά-στασις, -εως, ἡ

(< ἀποκαθίστημι),

restoration: Ac 3:21 (in π. of repairs and restorations of temples, v. MM, s.v.).†

ἀποκατάστασις. This subst., which in the NT is found only in Ac 3%, occurs in the sense of ‘‘restitution” in P Par 63Viii 40m, (B.C. 164) παντάπασιν δὲ μετὰ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν πραγμάτων νυνεὶ ἀποκατάστασειν ὁρμῶμεν ἀπὸ βραχείων μόλεις εὐσχημονεῖν, Ρ Leid Bit 18 καὶ τούτων τὴν ἀποκατάστασιν ἡμῖν γενηθῆναι. So in Sy// 552 (late ii/B.c.) twice with reference to the ‘‘ renewal” of the temple cell of the goddess Artemis at Magnesia—*8 εἰς thy ἀποκατάστασιν τοῦ ναοῦ συντέλειαν εἴληφεν, and * συντελέσαι τὴν ἀποκατάστασιν τῆς θεοῦ, and in OG/S 4835 (ii/B.c.) of the ‘‘repair” of a public way—ékSoory ποιησάμενοι τῆς ἀποκαταστάσεως τοῦ τόπου. In P Oxy I. 67° (a dispute concerning property— A.D. 338) it is laid down, εἰ πρὸς τὴν τῶν ὑπὸ τῶν αἰτιαθέντων διακατέχεσθαι λ[εγ]ομένων olkom[é]S[wy] ἀποκατάστασιν κτλ., ‘if the accused persons protest against the restoration of the estates of which they are said to be in occupation,” etc. In the third century petition, P Oxy I. 70, the editors render 7°" συνέβη δὲ ἀποκατάστασίν pe ποιήσασθαι πρὸς αὐτὸν τῷ διελθόντι K (ἔτει), by ‘it happened that a balancing of accounts took place between us in the past 20th year.” Add P Flor I. 4313 (a.p. 370) χειρογρα]φείαν ἤτοι ἀσφάλειαν τῆς ἀποκαταστάσεως τούτων, P Strass I. 267 (iv/A.D.) μετὰ τὴν ἀποκατάστασιν τούτων παρὰ Φοιβάμμωνος ἸΤαπνουθίου λάμβανε τὴν πρᾶσιν, and Chrest. Il. p. 117, printed above under ἀποθήκη. Another noun-formation occurs in P Tebt II. 4248 (late iii/a.D.) ὡς ἐὰ (Δ ἐὰν) μὴ ἀποκαταστασίας [δ]ὴ πέμψῃς [οἹῖδάς cov τὸ[ν] κίνδυνον, “so unless you now send discharges (of debts) you know your danger” (Edd.). To the literary record may be added Epicurus 89 (Linde Z/ic. p. 32). On the astrological use of ἀποκατάστασις (=the final point of agreement of the world’s cyclical periods) as underlying the NT idea, see J. Lepsius in Zx/. VIII. iii. p. 158 ff., where reference is also made to Brandes Abhandl. 2. Gesch. des Orients, Ὁ. 123, ‘‘ The Egyptian Apokatastasis-years.

ἀποκατάστασις (apokatastasis) — restoration. ἀποκατά-στᾰσις, εως, ἡ, restoration, re-establishment, τοῦ ἐνδεοῦς[Refs 4th c.BC+]; return to a position, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially of military formations, reversal of a movement, [NT+1st c.BC+]; of the soul, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; recovery from sickness, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; εἰς ἀ. ἐλθεῖν, of the affairs of a city, [Refs]; return to original position, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἀ. ἄστρων return of the stars to the same place in the heavens as in the former year, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; periodic return of the cosmic cycle, [Refs]; of a planet, return to a place in the heavens occupied at a former epoch, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but, zodiacal revolution, [Refs 4th c.AD+]; opposed to ἀνταπ. (which see), [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; restoration of sun and moon after eclipse, [Refs 5th c.BC+]