l.c.).—As was to be expected, biblical Greek has throughout kept clear of the words εὐδαίμων, εὐτυχής, not because of their heathen colouring, but from that deeper and more ideal view which instinctively made its choice between μακάριος and ὄλβιος, if εὐδαιμ. and εὐτυχ. were passed by. The highly poetic ὄλβιος was the more unlikely to be adopted, but μακάριος was by far the most appropriate term to receive the religious fulness of the biblical view. Μακάριος answers to the well-known
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