διαταγή, διαταγης, ἡ (διατάσσω), a purely Biblical (2Es 4:11) and ecclesiastical word (for which the Greeks use διάταξις), a disposition, arrangement, ordinance: Rom 13:2; ἐλάβετε τόν νόμον εἰς διαταγάς ἀγγέλων, Act 7:53, ye received the law, influenced by the authority of the ordaining angels, or because ye thought it your duty to receive what was enjoined by angels (at the ministration of angels (nearly equivalent to as being the ordinances etc.), similar to εἰς ὄνομα δέχεσθαι, Mat 10:41; see εἰς, B. II 2 d.; (Winers Grammar, 398 (372), cf. 228 (214), also Buttmann, 151 (131))). On the Jewish opinion that angels were employed as God’s assistants in the solemn proclamation of the Mosaic law, cf. Deu 33:2 the Sept.; Act 7:38; Gal 3:19; Heb 2:2; Josephus, Antiquities 15, 5, 3; (Philo de somn. i. § 22; Lightfoot’s Commentary on Galatians, the passage cited).

STRONGS NT 1296: διάταγμαδιάταγμα, διατάγματος, τό (διατάσσω), an injunction, mandate: Heb 11:23 (Lachmann δόγμα). (2Es 7:11; Additions to Est 3:14 [Esther 3:193:13d] (in Tdf., chapter iii. at the end, line 14); Wis 11:8; Philo, decal. § 4; Diodorus 18, 64; Plutarch, Marcell c. 24 at the end; (others).)