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2Co 1:22. Ἀῤῥαβῶνα, earnest) ch. 2Co 5:5. ἀῤῥαβὼν, Gen 38:17-18, is used for a pledge, which is given up at the payment of a debt; but elsewhere for earnest money, which is given beforehand, that an assurance may be afforded as to the subsequent full performance of the bargain. Hesychius, ἀῤῥαβὼν, πεόδομα. For the earnest, says Isid. Hispal., is to be completed [by paying the balance in full] not to be taken away: whence he who has an earnest does not restore it as a pledge, but requires the completion of the payment. Such an earnest is the Spirit Himself, Eph 1:14 : whence also we are said to have the first fruits of the Spirit, Rom 8:23. See Rittershusii, lib. 7, sacr. lect. c. 19.