' Uow fares the king and 's followers t Contln'd together In the same fashion as you gave in eharve. Just as you left them ; all itriAoncrs, sir.
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things also command'); 6" 'I give thee charge {napayy^Ww aoi, RV 'I charge thee'). 14. Give judgment, 2K25« 'and they gave judgment upon him '^ (c?;o iBx iTjTi, AVm ' spake judgment with him,' RVm 'spake with him of judgment'); so Jer 39'- ». Cf. .Sir T. More, Utopia (Lumbv's cd. p. 15), ' An otiier sorte sylteth upon their alle- bencheis, and there amonge their cuppes they geve judgment of the wittes of writers.' 15. Give sentence, Jer 4" 'now also will I give sentence against them' (c-p?;''? -is™, RV as AVm 'utter judgments'); Lk 23^ ' PUate gave sentence that it should be as they required' {irixpive). 16. Give counsel, 2 S 17' ' the counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time ' (I'J— i?x ->;n), so 1 K 123 '3_ 2Ch W. 17. Give assuraiM, Ac 17" (irl(rTi» Trapaux^y). 18. Give place, (a) literally. Is 49=* ' give place to me that I may dwell ' ('f .ny;) ; Sir 29-'' ' (iive place, thou stranger, to an honourable man ' (lie\0(, RV ' go forth ') ; Mt 9" ' Give place : for the maid is not dead' (' Kvaxiapetre) ; ami (4) figuratively, Gal 2' ' To Avhom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour' (fffa.uci/). Cf. Ro 12'", Eph 4^, and Babees Book (Eariy Eng. Text Soc), p. 103 —
' Sit thou not in the highest place, Where the gootl man is present. But g>*ue hira place : his nianers mark* Thou with graue aduyseinent.'
Knox in his ' Godly Letter to the Faithful in London ' (Works, iii. 167), says, ' But, Dcir Rreth- rcne, be subject unto God, and gif place to his wraith, that ye may eschape his everlasting ven- geance.' Cassius says to Brutus (Shaks. Jul. Cces. IV. iii. 146)—
' Of your philosophy you make no use, If you give place to accidental evils.' Tindale uses ' give room ' in the same way, Prologs to the Pentateuch, ' Isaac, when his welles which he had digged were taken from him, geveth rownie and resisteth not.'
3. To ' give oneself to ' is a phrase of occasional occurrence, representing various expressions in the original, but always implying energy or absorption in the pursuit spoken of. It occurs Ec 2* ' I sought in mine heart to "ive myself unto wine' (;?; 7'~'^ -);5-n.x, lit., as AV, ' to draw my flesh with wine,' RV ' to cheer my flesh with wine ') ; Ac 6* 'we will give ourselves continually to prayer' (irpo<TKaprfprj<TOfifv, RV ' we will continue stedfastly in iirayer ') ; I Co 7' ' that ye may give yourselves to lasting and prayer ' (TR iVa <rxo\dj''i)rc rj n]irrfi<f Kal t!) Tpoaeirxy, edd. tva <rxo\iarrTe tj irpoaei'xn, RV ' that ye may give yourselves unto prayer ') ; 1 Ti 4" 'giVe thyself wholly to them {iv roiVoft fafli). Sometimes the phrase is restricted to some part of the person, as the heart, Ec 1"- " ' I gave mv heart to know wisdom,' Sir StC ; or the mouth, Ps 5U'» 'Thou givest thy mouth to evil' in;'i? f-^y n'S). And then we have the frequent phrase given to, with the same meaning and used botli of good and bad pursuits. The expressions in the original are as a rule much more forcible than the Eng. phrase. They are, Pr '23'' ' if thou be a man given to appe- tite (n,:i< cc) ^az-Of, lit. 'if the owner of soul [ = desirei thou'; so Ec 8' 'given to it [wicked- ness]'); Pr '24^' 'meddle not with them that are given to change' (D'|ir-cv 'changelings,' or perhaps, as Del., 'revolutionaries'); Jer 6'*^ 8"* 'given to eovetousness'(;-s;n''-, lit. '[greedylgnincrof [greedy] gain ') ; 1 Es2-'' ' given to relM'lli'on and war (<riiT«- XoCiTft, lit. 'accomplishing'); Sir 17'* 'given to evil' if'iri rd Toyripa, RV omits^ ; 19' 'given to dniiikennewi' (luOvaos, RV 'that is n drunkard ') ; Ac 17" 'wholly given to idolatry' (xoTdJwXor ovaay, RV ' full of idols') ; Ro 12" 'given to hos.
{►itality' (Tijy tpiXo^fvlay Stii'Korrts, lit. 'puisuiujj iospitality,'asRVui)| lTi3' 'given to hospiuility
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(^tXifo-os, lit ' guest-loving ') ; 3' ' given to wine ' Irivoiyos, RV 'brawler'; bo Tit 1'); 3« 'given to much wine' (ofufj TroWip irpocr^wy) ; Tit 1' ' givon to filthy lucre' (alirxfOKepdr/s, lit. ' baselj' greedy,' KV ' greedy of filthy lucre ') ; 2* ' given to much wine ' {oifif To\\(f SeSov^ufiivat, RV ' enslaved to much wine ').
4. In the sense of arant, admit, 'give' is often found in writers of the date of AV. Thus Shaks. Winter's Tale, in. ii. 96—
* The crown and comfort of my life, your favoar, I do give lost ; (or 1 do feel it gone* ;
and Milton, PL ii. 14—
* Thougii oppressed and fallen I give not lieaveii for lost.'
This idiom does not occur in AV, but closely associated with it is the sense of give leave to, seen in Mt 13" ' Unto you it is given to know ' {viur SiSorai. yvuvai) ; and 1 Co 12' ' 1 give you to under- stand' (yvuipl^u v/uy, lit. 'I make knowTi to you'), plirases which are as old as Wyclif , and in common use still. Cf. Milton, PL ix. 818—