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arrived in 60, the 8<«Tia SXt) of Ac 28** ends about February 63 ; between this and the Neroniau perse- cution of midsummer 64, to which Harnack would again bring back St. Paul's death, there is sufii- cient though hardly ample time for the events presupposed in the Epp. to Timothy and Titus (see Schiirer, as quoted above, esp. note 38 ; Harnack, as quoted above ; Blass, Acta Apost. Ed. Philnl. p. 23, and the authorities for CHRONOLOGY OF NT).
A. Robertson. FETCH. — To fetch ia to cause to corns, as Fuller, Holy Warre, 230, ' If they should say the Templars were burned wrongfully, they may be fetched over the coals themselves for charging his Holinesse so deeply ' ; and this meaning is easily seen in most of its phrases.
1. Fetch up, 1 S 6" 7>. So Shaks. Ant. and Cleop. rv. XV. 35—
' Had I great Juno's power. The atrong-wing'd Mercury should fetoh thee up, And set thee by Jove's side.'
2. /V<fAff(7firm,t.e. cause to come back (see AGAIN): 1 Es 4** ' Swift is the sun in his course, for he com- pisseth the heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day' (TraXiK diroTpixd). Cf. Bunyan, Holu Citie, 252, ' Revivings that (like Aquavitfe) do fetch again, and chear up the soul' ; and Tindale, Exposition.^, 165, ' He will return again unto his mercy, and fetch his power home again, which he lent to vex thee.' 3. Fetch nhout: 2 S 14™ 'To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing' (3zp inyj'? i;;n 'isry, lit. ' for the purpose of bringing round the face of the business,' or as RV ' to change the face of the matter'). See About, and cf. Shaks. K. John, IV. ii. 24 —
* Like a shifted wind onto a sail, It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about.'
Bacon, Essays, ' Of Cunnin" ' (Gold. Treas. ed. p. 95, 1. 5), ' It is strange, how long some men wUl he in wait, to speake somewhat tliey desire to say : and how farre about they will fetch ; and how many other Matters they will beat over to come near it.' i. Fetch a compass, i.e. 'make a circuit,' instead of going in a straight line. Thus Fuller, Pi.if/ah Sight, IV. ii. 43, ' \Vicked men may for a time retard, not finally obstruct our access to happiness. It is but fetching a compass, making two steps for one ; a little more pains and patience will do the deed.' The Heb. is simply the verb 355 sAhhabh, which means to make a turning or a circuit. RV gives 'turn about' in Nu 34°, Jos 15', and 'make a circuit' in 2 S 5=», 2K 3». The Gr. is Trf/w^pxoMO'. go round about, Ac 28" (RV 'make a circuit').* In 'fetch a compass' as in 'fetch about' the idea of the circuitous route is not in the verb, but in its complement.t SSce Compass. Similar jihrases are found, as T. Adams, // Peter, 54, ' Merchants would give much to know a short cut to those remote places of traffic, without passing straits or fetching bouts'; Fuller, IIulij Wnrre, p. '29, 'As if sensible of his sad fate, and desirous to deferre what he cannot avoid, he [the .Ionian] fetcheth many turnings and wind- ings, but all will not excuse lam from falling into 'he Dead sea.' 3. Fetch a stroke, l)t I'.l' • his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe.' So I'uller, llohj Wnrre, 219, ' Being about to fetch another stroke, the IVince with his foot gaue him such a blow that he felled him to the ground ' ; and Bunj-an, Holy
' liightfnot (Frfffi lifvixion^ 193)Rayt, 'We have heard how the inquiring schnoH'oy has bt'cn perplexed at reading tliut St. Paul anil his conipaiiinns " futcliefl a ivnnpai*s" when they set sail (roni Syracuse (Ac 'Ji>'^), not being able to reconcile this state- ment with the date given for the invention of this instninient.'
t Fuller, Unttj H'nrrf, p. 119, saj-s. ' His navie he sent about by .SjMiin ' : then on p. 120. ' behold his nokvie there safely arriving, which with much dilBcultie and danger had fetclied a ccmituas about Spain.'
IVar (Clar. Press ed. p. 47, I. 20), ' If I fetch my blow, Mnnsoul, down you go.' 6. Fetch one^a breath. Sir SI'" 'he fetcheth not his wind short upon his bed ' (oiiK aaBfialvd., RV ' he doth not breathe hard'). Cf. Shaks. 1 Henry IV. II. iv. 579, ' Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search his pockets ' ; and Troilus, III. ii. 23, ' She does so blush, and fetches her wind so short, as if she were frayed with a sprite: I'll fetch her. It is the prettiest villain : she fetches her breath so short as a new-ta'en sparrow.'
In Old English there were two distinct verbs, fet and /etch. Fet seems to have been the older of the two. Indeed, Bradley (,Ox,f. Eng. Diet. s.v. 'Fetch') beheves that Piatt and Sievers are right in deriving fetch from fet by a singular series of changes. The i of the oldest form/efi-anbecameaconsonantal y, then this ty being sounded as <x became written so, and cc easily passed into the spelling ch. Cf. ort-yeard, in Old Eng. orchard, now orchard.