STRONGS G1357:
διόρθωσις,
-εως,
ἡ, (from
διορθόω);
1. properly in a physical sense,
a making straight, restoring to its natural and normal condition something which in some way protrudes or has got out of line, as (in Hippocrates) broken or misshapen limbs.
2. of acts and institutions,
reformation:
καιρὸς διορθώσεως a season of reformation, or the perfecting of things, referring to the times of the Messiah,
Heb. 9:10. (Aristotle Pol. 3, 1, 4 [p. 1275
b, 13];
νόμου, de mund. 6 p. 400
b, 29; [cf. Josephus c. Ap. 2, 20, 2]; Polybius 3, 118, 12
τῶν πολιτευμάτων, Diodorus 1, 75
τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων, Josephus antiquities 2, 4, 4;
b. j. 1, 20, 1; others; [cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 250f].)
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