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Eyeseryice
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain
This is a literal tr. in Eph 6«, Col 3^- of the Greek 6(p9a\iJ.oSov\(la, and seems to have been coined by Tindale, although he uses it only in Col, in Eph giving ' service in the eye sight.' The word was at once adopted into the langu.Tge, Crowley (1550), Last Trump, 163, having ' Se thou serue hira . . not wyth eye-seruice fainedly.' The AV of 1611 is, however, the first Version that lias eye service in Eph (it writes two separate words as all the Versions do in Col).
The Greek word is found nowhere else ; ' This happy expression,' says Lightfoot, ' would seem to be the apostle's own coinage.' J. HASTINGS.
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