' Courage and comfort ! all shall yet po well. What can go well, when we have run so ill ? '
(2) Go ill. Job 20-« 'it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle,' so RVm, but RV ' it shall consume that which is left in his tent,' Dav. 'it shall devour him that is left in his tent ' (Heb. j'T iSnx? !-!;;■) ; Ps 106^^ ' they angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it -went ill with Moses for their sakes' (^ vin). So Shaks. Cijmb. i. vii. 95 —
' Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do.'
(3) Go evil, 1 Ch 7^ ' it went evil with his house ' (.nn;n nv.-rz). (4) Go sore. 1 S 3P 'And the battle went sore against Saul' ('7N iDrni) ; 1 Cli 10' (i::rni '?!;). This is Coverdale's tr" ; Wye. 1382, 'Andal' the charge (13S8 ' weighte ') of the batayl is turned unto Saul,' and Dou. ' And the whole weight of the battel was turned upon Saul,' are after the Vulg. ' Totumque pondus proelii versiim est in Saul ' ; LXX is more literal, xal papiverai 0 7r6Xf/ios ini Zaoi'X. Cf. Tindale, Works, i. 90, ' What shall we then say to those Scriptures which go so sore upon good works?' (5) Go right. Sir 49" 'and directed them that went right' (RV 'and to do good to tliem that directed their ways aright,' reading ^ai aya6C)(jai [for AV Kal /carcJp^wcre] rot's evQvvovras 6ooi/y).
4. One of the ways by which the verb to 'go' extended its meaning was by accepting 'went' as its past tense. ' Went ' was the past tense of the verb to ' wend,' and had origanally but little con- nexion with ' go ' in meaning, as it had none in etymology. For ' go ' is now the opposite of ' come ' ; out as a river may ' come winding ' as well as ' go winding,' it was possible formerly to say that it ' came and went, and yet express move-
• * Go well ' occur* in another sense in Pr 3029 ' There be tbret things which go well ' (RV ' are stately in their mtrch ').
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iiient in only one direction. Hence we find ' went ' and even ' go ' used of a river, where the meanin" is 'took its (winding) course.' Thus Gn 2'" 'And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ' (kj- ; LXX iKTopev€Tat, Vulg. ' egrediebatur, Wye. 1832, ' And a Uood gede out of the place of delice to watre paradis'). Cf. Milton, Lycidas, 103 —
' Next Oamus, reverend sire, went footing slow.'
' Wend ' has practically gone out of use, and ' yode ' the original past tense of ' go ' is obsolete long since, so that ' go ' and ' went ' serve as present and past with the same meaning tlirougliout. Before passing from this matter of form, it may be well to notice the old-fashioned ' let us be going' (.Jg 19^ ' Up and let us be going' npSji -psp ; Mt 20'" Hyuiiev), which would now he called a 'Scotticism,' though KV retains it. The identical phrase ({yeipeaOe dyuneu) tr"* in Mt ' Kise, let us be going,' is found in Mk 14'-, where AV gives ' Rise up, let us go,' but RV 'Arise, let us be going,' as in Mt 26'*. Again, in Jn 14^' we tind ^(lp«rOe iyuiiev ivTcSdsv, but 'let us be going hence' proved too much for RV ; both versions give ' Arise, let us go hence.' Another grammatical peculiarity is found in Is 15' 'for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping they shall go it up,' for ' go up it,' the object preceding its preposition. Cf. North's Plutarch, Pelopidas, p. 324, ' Notwithstanding;, when they came to the hilles, they sought forcibly to clime them up.'
5. The verb to 'go' forms with other words, chiefly adverbs, some noteworthy expressions.
1. Oo about : This phrase has three clearly dis- tinguishable meanings (see About). (1) ' Go i-uund,' Jos 6" ' So the ark of God compa.ssed the city, going about it once' (IPC); (2) Go from place to place,' as Ac 10^ 'who went about doing good'; and (3) 'set oneself to do,' 'attenijit,' as Ac 26'-' ' For tlie.se causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.' Tlie verbs tr'' ' go about ' witli the second meaning are 335 s&bhnhh, lit. ' turn ' (Jos 16", 1 S 1.5'-, 2 K 3^, 2 Ch \V 23-, Ps 55'" [Piel], Ec 2», Ca 3'^ [Piel], 3« 5'), -^hr; Mlak, 'go' (Pr '20'"), b!c* shnt, 'wander' (Nu 11"), T? sdhar, usually 'traffic' (Jer 14"), p?n hdmnh, 'turn away' (Jer 31^ Hithp. = 'turn hither and thither'), ireplayu 'lead or go round' (Mt 4'^ !P, Ac 13"), and Siipxoixai 'go through ' or 'through- out' (.\c 10*). Cov. uses the same phrase in .lob 27'^ ' Wherfore then do ye go aboute with socli vayne wordes'; Hos 11'^ ' Ephraim goeth aboute me with lies' (EV 'conipasseth me'); and Tind. in .In 7' 'After that, Jesus went about in (Jalile and wolde not go about in Jewry.' Cf. Shaks. Macbeth, I. iii. 34—