last ex. bears out Ellicott’s further remark that of the two verbs κοινωνέω “implies more distinctly the idea of a community with others”: cf. Brooke ad 1 Jn 1:3: “κοινωνεῖν is always used of active participation, where the result depends on the co-operation of the receiver as well as on the action of the giver.” The editors of the Commagenian Inscriptions (in Humann and Puchstein’s Reisen in Kleinasien und Nordsyrien, Textband p. 371) note the resemblance between a religious inscr. of King Antiochus
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