and Herbert, The Temple : ' Faith,' 1. 43—
• What though my bodie runne to dust?
Faith cleaves unto it, counting every grain With an exact and most particular trust. Reserving all for flesh again.'
2. As verb frequently. Notice Ps 89*" ' The enemy shall not exact upon him ' (u K-orrfS, RVm ' do him violence ') ; the mod. phrase is ' impose exactions upon.' Cf. Burnet (16S7), Trav. ii. 86, ' Innkeepers think they have a right to exact upon Strangers.'
In Lk 3» RV has changed ' Exact do more than that which is appointed you,' into 'Extort no more,' etc. But 'exact' was surely strong enough ; were they permitted to extort anything! Tind." has ' require.' Following the Vulg. faciatU, Wyclif has ' do ye no more,' and Rheiius ' Uoe nothing more.' which seems a natural reply to ' What shall we do?' But the Greek rerbe are not the game, Ti w, wurmtifM* (TR wur.vofAi*) and Mn3i> .
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w^rnrt ; and wpamn boa the sense of exacting both In cluaa. Greek and in Lk 19^ f EV ' require '). Agere is similarly uaed in LaU, and Diit;hl have oeen chusen by Jerome here.
Exactly is found 2 Es 16** ' the Lord will exactly search out ' (scrutinando scrutiiiabit), and Sir 10-^ ' declare liis knowledge exactly ' {io ditpi/3e(?). The sense is the same as 'exact' above, i.e. 'precisely'; cf. Sbaks. Temp. 1. ii. 499—
* But then exactly do All pointa of my oommand.'
J. Hastings.
EXCEED. — The transitive use is now rare and almost confined to the sense of ' preponderate,' as Jowett, Plato', V. 76, ' Men always choose the life which exceeds in pleasure.' But in AV we find the sense of 'go too far,' witliout introducing a comparison, 1 S 2(>" ' They . . . wept one with anotlier, until David exceeded ' (Snjri) ; Job 36* ' Then he showeth tliem their work, and their transCTessions that they have exceeded ' ("?;ii', RV 'nave behaved themselves proudly '); 2 Es 4** 'Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy liaste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded ' {exces.fus tuus mttUiis, UV ' for he that is above [hasteneth] on behalf of manj',' reading Excclsus autcm propter multus, after Syr.) : so Coverdale's tr. of Is 31' ' Therfore (O ye children of Israel) turne agayne, like as ye have exceaded in your goinge bacK ' (AV and KV ' have deeply revolted '), and Bacon, Ad- vancement of Learning, II. ix. 3 (Selby's ed. p. 53) ' the scruples and superstitions of diet ... in the law of Malioniet, do exceed.'
Exceeding is rare as an adj., only eight times,* wliile as adv. it is used 60 times at least, when it always qualifies an adj. Thus Mt 8'-* ' There met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce' (xaXeiroi Xlav ; so Kheims ; but Tind. Cov. Cran. and Gen. 1.557, ' out of measure fearce'; Gen. 1560 and Bishops', ' very fierce ' ; Wye. ' ful wood ').
Two cases of ' exceeding ' as adv. demand attention : JoQ 88 ' Nineveh waa an exceeding great city,* and Ac 72f * Moses . . . was exceeding fair.' The Heb. of Jon 33 is Cl^K? n^ni-TV, lit. • a cit>' great unto Ood,' hb RVm ; and the Gr. of Ac 7^ is ttrruot rat Hi*, lit. ' fair unto God,* as RVm again. AV and KV af ree in taking both puwages as a form of the superlative ; and this is supported by 1 Ch 12^ * a great host, like ttie host of Ood.' Kut in the only other place where the identical expres- ■ion occurs, On 10» (.Tl.T -JC^ TS"li!;), AV and RV give 'a mighty hunter before the Lord' ; and it is probable that in the three passages the intention is to express, not merely the super- lative, but the ideal of might, greatness, beauty, such as could be admitted into the presence of the All-perfect. There are •iniilar expressions in the I'salter. Ps 3ffi AV ' the great moun- tains,' RV as Heb. ' the mountains of Ood ' ; 66» ' the river of Ood,' AV and UV ; SO'O AV ' the goodiv cedare,' KV as Heb. ' cedars of Ood ' ; 104'8 AVand RV 'the trees of the Lord'; but Perowne (Jonah, Lc.) is right in |K)inting out that in these passages the thought Is dllTerent, being thai of Ood's proprietor- ship, as Indeed uia last passage Indicates, ' which he hath planted-'
Exceedingly also occurs some 50 times, being the form used with verlis (except Ac 26", Gal l'\ pa-ssages in which AV first of Eng. versions uses this word). ' More exceedingly ' is found Mk 15'* (TK Ttfuatraripurt, edd. TtpiairuJ!, RV ' exceedingly '),
• The eight occurrences of 'exceeding* a.s an adj. are 2 Mac 8^7 ' yielding e. pruise and thanks to the l^rd ' {*tptrrit ii/XoyaZtTtt W4 il6t±*>-^oufutot r£ Kufiiat, RV ' blesjiing and thanking the Lord exceedingly ');' 158 * in e. pride and haughtiness' ^it« wtir^i x>.aZ4riiae u-i-xi^-^iiS,, RV 'bearing himself haughtily m all vaingloriousness,* RVm 'carrying his neck high'); 2 Co 417 'a far more e. and eternal weight of glory ' (xaI/ t/wifil3»\r» i*'; vti/>- ^«/r,w a!^,in fictpat io^rf, RV 'more and more exceedingly an eternal weight ') ; 9'* ' for the e. grace of Ood ' {itk t>i» itvtpSctK- Km/fa, x^f^'w ', ^ph 1'* ' the e. greatness of his power' (ri i^ip- fictyxt* u,iyiSof)l 27 'the e. ricnes of his grace* (ri iir\pilay\n rXdvTo;) ; 1 P ii8 ' that ye may be glad also with e. joy ' (»'»• ■«f . . . Ya^-rt i>«XJu«i/xi»«) f Jude ** ' with e. joy * {it ij-aX- Kjani. RV * m e. joy *). Thus in everj* insUmce the meaning is 'aurpa&singly great ' ; the word never has the sense of excessive or immoderate, which we find, e.p., in Sand^vs, (158.^) Sermoni, 816, ' Why was Anna so exceedmg in craving children at the hands of Ood ?