ἀνάστασις

ἀνάστασις — anástasis

ἀνάστασις, ἀναστάσεως, ἡ (ἀνίστημι) (from Aeschylus down);

1. a raising up, rising (e. g. from a seat): Luk 2:34 (opposed to πτῶσις; the meaning is 'It lies (or 'is set' A. V.) like a stone, which some will lay hold of in order to climb; but others will strike against it and fall').

2. a rising from the dead (ecclesiastical Latinresurrectio) (Aeschylus Eum. 648);

a. that of Christ: Act 1:22; Act 2:31; Act 4:33; Rom 6:5; Php 3:10; 1Pe 3:21; with the addition of νεκρῶν, Rom 1:4 (a generic phrase: the resurrection-of-the-dead, although it has come to pass as yet only in the case of Christ alone; cf. Act 17:32; Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 a. at the end); ἐκ νεκρῶν, 1Pe 1:3.

b. that of all men at the end of the present age. This is called simply ἀνάστασις or ἡ ἀνάστασις, Mat 22:23, (28), 30; Mar 12:18; Mar 12:23 Luk 20:27; Luk 20:33; Luk 20:36; Joh 11:24; Act 17:18; Act 23:8; 2Ti 2:18; by metonymy equivalent to the author of resurrection, Joh 11:25; with the addition of ἡ ἐκ νεκρῶν, Luk 20:35; Act 4:2; or simply of τῶν νεκρῶν (on the distinction which some (e. g. Van Hengel on Rom 1:4; Van Hengel and Lightfoot on Php 3:11; Cremer, under the word) would make between these phrases, see Winers Grammar, 123 (117); Buttmann, 89 (78)), Mat 22:31; Act 17:32; Act 23:6; Act 24:15 (Rec.),;; 1 Corinthians 15:12f, 21, 42; Heb 6:2. ἀνάστασις ζωῆς resurrection to life (ἀνάστασις εἰς ζωήν, 2Ma 7:14 (cf. Dan 12:2)), and ἀνάστασις τῆς κρίσεως resurrection to judgment, Joh 5:29 (on the genitives cf. Winer's Grammar, 188 (177)); the former is ἀνάστασις τῶν δικαίων, Luk 14:14; κρείττων ἀνάστασις, Heb 11:35 (so called in comparison with a continuance of life on earth, which is spoken of as an ἀνάστασις by a kind of license; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 460 (429))). ἡ ἀνάστασις ἡ πρώτη in Rev 20:5 f will be that of true Christians, and at the end of a thousand years will be followed by a second resurrection, that of all the rest of mankind, Rev 20:12 ff On the question whether and in what sense Paul also believed in two resurrections, separated from each other by a definite space of time, cf. Grimm in the Zeitschr. für wissenschaftl. Theol., 1873, p. 388f.

c. the resurrection of certain in ancient Jewish story who were restored to life before burial: Heb 11:35.