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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt:...incomplete, may, in a very partial sense, be admitted to be true. For the Latin in and the Greek iu are not confined to marking the relative position of'within' with regard to space and time merely, but have this office with reference also to any condition or set of circumstances that may invest a person or action. If we say in Greek iu dpjf ttvat, 'to be in a state of anger,' the proper force of the preposition is no more difficult to see than in the proposition iu rjj vfjoip irtXsbzijotu, 'he died in the island.' Even the phrase iu aoi jdp iapteu, Soph. (Ed. Tyr. 814, 'for we depend on you,' that is, for our salvation, 'we arc in your hands,' although more difficult, may readily be seen to employ the preposition in the same way; only the expression is to be taken figuratively. It is not intended to be said literally that we, that is, as regards our salvation, are 'in' or 'within you,' but that, as regards our salvation, we are in certain circumstances or in a certain condition, namely, in the circumstances or condition expressed by whatever is embraced in the term aoi, and that is your ability and willingness to save, the person being employed for the properties belonging to him and that may be the ground of confidence for those seeking safety. So that, as a man's dying is defined in a material point, its place, by saying that it occurred iu rj uT/jatp, 'in, within, the island,' so the term iapiu, 'we are,' meaning in regard to our salvation, is defined in a material point, namely, the circumstances or condition in which the persons speaking stand, by the addition of iv aoi, 'in you,' that is, we are in the circumstances or condition afforded by your personal qualities, your ability and willingness to save. This is expressed in English by the phrase 'we a...