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In Greek mythology, Elpis (Ancient Greek: Ἐλπίς, romanized: Elpis, lit. 'hope') is the minor goddess ( daimon ) of hope, about which the Greeks had ambivalent feelings. She was never the centre of a cult, as was Spes , her Roman equivalent, and was chiefly the subject of ambiguous Greek aetiological myths.
Elpis Israel - An Exposition of the Kingdom of God (commonly called Elpis Israel is a theological book written by John Thomas, founder of the Christadelphians, and published in 1849. Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Dr. John Thomas (12 April 1805 – 5 March 1871) was a British religious leader and founder of the Christadelphians.He was a dedicated Bible expositor, and author of Elpis Israel, the first major writing to bring to light the subject of "God Manifestation" and the hope of Israel for future generations.
Elpis may refer to: Elpis (mythology), Ancient Greek spirit of Hope; Elpis (wife of Boethius) (died c. AD 504), a Roman poet and hymnographer;
Pistis in rhetoric can mean "proof" and is the element to induce true judgment through enthymemes, hence to give "proof" of a statement. [3] There are three modes by which this is employed. The first mode is the "subject matter capable of inducing a state of mind within the audience."
Classical authors use the word elpis to mean "expectation of bad", as well as "expectation of good". Statistical analysis demonstrates that the latter sense appears five times more than the former in all of extant ancient Greek literature. [24] Others hold the minority view that elpis should be rendered "expectation of evil" (vel sim). [25]
In many Gnostic systems, various emanations of God are known by such names as One, Monad, Aion teleos (αἰών τέλεος "The Broadest Aeon"), Bythos (βυθός, "depth" or "profundity"), Arkhe (ἀρχή, "the beginning"), Proarkhe (προαρχή, "before the beginning") and as Aeons (which are also often named and may be paired or grouped).
The Greek counterpart of Spes was Elpis, who by contrast had no formal cult in Greece.The primary myth in which Elpis plays a role is the story of Pandora.The Greeks had ambivalent or even negative feelings about "hope", with Euripides describing it in his Suppliants as "delusive" and stating "it has embroiled many a State", [13] and the concept was unimportant in the philosophical systems of ...