Tutor (Hastings' Dictionary)
Gal 4' only, 'The heir ... is under tutors and guardians,' i.e. as RV, ' under guardians and stewards,' Gr. inrd ivLTpimovs icai oUovS^vi (cf. Lightfoot, ad loc). In its oldest use ' tutor ' (Old Fr. tutcur; Lat. tutor a protector, from tueor to protect) means protector or guardian. Thus Fletcher, Double Marriage, v. 1 — ' I'll have mine own power here, Mine own autbority ; 1 need no tutor.' The word still has this sense in Scots law : Free- man, Norman Conquest, v.
252, ' The guardian — the tutor in Scottish phrase — of the orphans and their land.' Cf. Knox, Hist. 423, 'Now when we are at our full luaturitie, shall we be brought back to the state of Pupils, and bee put under Tutory?' J. IIastinqs.
This topic also has an entry in the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Both articles offer independent scholarly perspectives.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Tutor
Tutor tu'-ter: In modern English an "instructor," more particularly a private instructor, but the word properly means a "guardian." Hence its use in Ga 4:2 the King James Version for epitropos, here "guardian" (so the Revised Version (British and American)), and 1Co 4:15; Ga 3:24-25 the Revised Version (British and American) for paidagogos. ⇒See a list of verses on TUTOR in the Bible. See SCHOOLMASTER. ⇒See the definition of tutor in the KJV Dictionary
References
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