11. Go back: Besides the literal sense, notice (1) to 'depart from an eng.agement or course of action,' Jg ll** ' I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back' (zr^) hT-x uSi) ; Ezk 24''' ' I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent' (yicx-x^). (2) To ' decline to a worse way,' Jos 23'=, Job 23'", Ps53^ 80'», Jn 6«». Cf. .ler 44' Cov. ' they wente backe to do sacrifice and worshipe unto straunge goddes.'
1'2. Go ieyonrf is used in two .senses: (1) to 'go outside of,' 'pa.ss'; Nu 22" 'I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more ' ; 24" ' I cannot go beyond the commandment (ItV ' word') of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind ' (botlni;;^). Cf. Heywood, Works, i. 21U, ' Sliooniaker, you goe a little beyond your last.' (2) To ' overreach,^ 1 Th 4" 'That no "man go beyond and defraud his brother' (ri fij; inrep- (jaifan, RV 'transgress,' RVm 'overreach'). So Life (if T. Cromwell, iv. v. 120, ' We must be wary, else he'll go beyond us ' ; and Shaks. Henry VIII. III. ii. 409— ' There was the weight that pull'd me down. O Cromwell,
The king has gone beyond rae.'
13. Go for, i.e. 'be accounted,' I S 17'" 'the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul ' (o';:>^3 kj ip;, RV ' was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken in years among men ').
The AV tr° is a hold and apparently an original attempt to render the Heb. literally. The nearest form in the previous \ersion3 is that of the Gen. Bible, ' this man was taken for an olde man in the days of Saul.' But the Heb. will not render so. The only literal rendering that the Heb. will stand is, ' and the man in the days of Saul was aged, entered in among men,' — which, as Driver says, affords no intelligible sense. Two suggestions have been made, the one to omit K3, when we get simply ' and the man in the days of Saul was aged among men ' ; the other, to change 0'e7:K3 into D*3&'3, and translate 'and the man in the days of Saul entered into years.' The objection to the second is that the phrase elsewhere is always D'D'n N3 ]p], and Driver, on the whole, prefers the first. (See Heb. Text of Samuel^ p. 108 f.; and a severe criticism by Jennin^ and Lowe of the RV tr", which they consider to be impossible a# a rendering of the Massoretic text, in Expos, ill. ii. 63).
The AV tr°, though impossible as a rendering ot the Heb., is good idiomatic English. Thus Sidney, Arcadia, p. 10, ' But because a pleasant fellow of my acquaintance set forth her praises in verse, I will only repeat them, and spare mine owne tongue, since she goes for a woman ' ; and Shaks. Macbeth, III. i. 92—
* We are men, my liege. Ay, lo the catalogue ye go for men.
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14 Co forth: Among other expressions (see FoKTH) notice esjieoially 'motion away from a ijiven spot,' in Lk 8'^ ' Arid that wliicli fell among thorns are they, wliich, wlien they have heard, go forth' (iropivbixevoi., KV 'as they go on their way ). Cf. Lk 5* Kht'in. ' Which when Simon Peter did •see, lie fel downe at Jesus knees, saying, Goe forth from me, because I am a sinful man, O Lord.'
15. Go forward — see under l""ou\VARD.
16. Go hard= ' go close,' Jg 9", see Hard.
17. Go in and out : This phrase is found in Ac 1" 'all the lime that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us' {ei<r^\Oei> xal ^i^XBcv ^<p' i]^tas), and the meaning may be no more than 'iiassed his time,' though the (•?' seems to imply leadership, whence Rvm 'over us.' In if^ occurs the fuller phrase ' coming in and going out,' ' And he [Saul] was with them coming in and going out at Jeru- salem ' {claTTopeudfjL^i'ot Kal ^Kwopdioficvoif KV ' going in and going out'), where, again, some more definite activity is meant than merely 'spending his time,' probably something like what is now called 'aggressive work.' In OT this fuller phrase occurs repeatedly (Nu27"-", Dt 28"- •" 31= 33'», Jos 14", 1 S 18"- ■" liO", 2 S 3^, 1 K 3', 2 K U' 19^, 1 Ch 27', 2 Ch l'» 15» 10' 23'- », Ps I21», Is 37^, Jer 37^ Zee 8'°). While always recognized as an idiomatic expression for a man's active life, it is sometimes clearly used in a more technical sense than that. When Moses says (Dt3F), 'I am an hundred and twenty years old this day ; I can no more go out and come in,' he intimates his failing fitness to be Israel's leader. More distinctly Joshua states (Jos 14") that in his 85th year he is still lit to be their leader in war : ' As j'ct I am as strong this d.ay as I was in the day that Moses sent me : as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.' Of David it is said (1 S 18"), 'Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thou- .simd ; and he went out an<l came in before the jieople,' where the reference must be to military ex]>f(litions. Solomon says (1 K 3'), 'I am but a little child ; I know not how to go out or come in,' and declares his unfitness to be Uing. See 90 out below The phrase ' go in and out occurs in Ex 32-'' in tlie sense of 'go to and fro' (as KV) ; and in Jn 10" ' by me, if any man enter in, he .shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture' (eij-fXei/fffToi Kal ^^iXfutrirat, RV 'shall go in and go out') as in Ac l'", but figuratively to express the liberty of the sons of (Jod.