Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4318: προσαγωγήπροσαγωγή, προσαγωγης, ἡ; 1. the act of bringing to, a moving to (Thucydides, Aristotle, Polybius, others). 2. access, approach (Herodotus 2, 58; Xenophon, Cyril 7, 5, 45) (others, as Meyer on Romans, as below (yet see Weiss in the 6th edition), Ellicott on Ephesians, insist on the transitive sense, introduction): εἰς τήν χάριν, Romans 5:2; to God, i. e. (dropping the figure) that friendly relation with God whereby we are acceptable to him and have assurance that he is favorably disposed toward us, Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12. |