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The third of IVP’s critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond the life of the New Testament church to include the work of the apostolic fathers and early Christianity up through the middle of the second century. ...

The most common term for power in this literature is dynamis, although some authors (e.g., Hermas) use ischys and its cognates just as frequently. Both terms refer to the inherent or derived ability to perform an action. A third term, kratos, was used in the same sense, but occurs most commonly in doxologies. The right to exercise power is expressed by the word exousia, “authority.” The verbs dynamoō and endynamoō were regularly used to convey the notion of divine empowerment of individuals.