18. Go on: (1 ) Continue a course begun, proceed, as in Shaks. Othello, III. iii. 413 —
' I do not like the office ; But, Hith I am entered in this cause so far. Prick 'tl to 't by foolish honesty and love, 1 will go on.'
Generally of a journey, Gn 29' 'Then Jacob went on his journey' (i'?;T »?')< 'it- 'lifted up his feet,' as AVm, IlVm) ; so Ac lu' 'as they went on their journey' {iSowopoOi'TUD iKclyuf, KV 'as they were on their journey ') ; Mt 4-' ' And going on from thence, he saw otlier two brethren (irpo/jas iKiWev, lit. ' going forward thence '). In 1 S 10" the simple verb i'?n ' to [lass on,' is tr'' ' go on forward.^ In Gn 19=32', 1 S26» 2S*-' we find the fuller expression ' go on one's way.' See Go one's waij below. Sometimes the meaning is »imi)ly 'continue,' 'persist,' as ISM'" 'the noise that was in the host of the rhilistines went on and increa.xed ' (a-i; T;iSri -i^m, LXX (iropevero vopeviintvoi «oi iirXiiOvm', ; Ps 68=' 'such an one as 'j;oelli on still in his trespasses' (? f^tp). In Ezr 5' it is to 'advance,' 'make progres.H,' 'this work goetli fast on and prospereth ; and in He 6' the phrase is fig. ' let us go on unto perfection ' {<t>rpu>tieOa, KV ' press on ') (2) To go to meet an enemy, generally ' go VOL. u. — I ?
out,' Job 39=' ' he goetli on to meet the armed men ' (KV ' he goetli out '). (3) To go forward, towards the front, said of the 'border' of a territory, Nu 34*- '. See Go out, below.
19. Go out : Besides its uses in modem English, this phrase has some peculiarly biblical senses, which are for the nio.st part due to the freedom with which the verb wy; is employed in Hebrew. (1) 'To go from home : Ku 1=' ' I went out full, and the Lord hath brought mo home again empty ' ; so Adonijah is threatened by Solomon, 'on the day thou goest out, and passcst over the brook Kidron, thou sh.alt know for certain that thou shalt surely die ' ; and of Abraham it is said in Hell"' when he was called to go out ... he went out' UieXOciy . . . i^TiXdev) ; while it is one of the rewards of the Christian victor that he will be at home in the Church of which he is made a pillar, and 'shall go no more out' (Kev 3'= ffu oiJ m") ^ffXi^D (ti, KV ' he shall go out thence no more '). In 2 Ch 18=' 'I will go out and be a uiiig spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. Ana the Lord said . . . go out, and do even so ' (in 1 K 22-'= ' go forth, as RV here), the reference is the same aa in Job l'=2' 'So Satan went forth from the pres- ence of the Loud.' Less definitely, Gn 41" ' And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt ' ; 2 Ch 19'' ' Jehosli!i]ihat . . . went out again through the people from lieersheba to Mount Ephraim ' (a formula during the .separation of the king- dom.< for the old ' from Dan to Heersheba') ; and Ps 81' ' This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he went through the land of Egypt ' (wnis on^P PS'^l!, liV ' when he went out over the land of Egypt,' the ref. being apparently, as in AV, to Joseph's administration (Gn 41"), which is sur- prising, .seeing that modern English commentators almost unanimously find the ref. to be to God).
The passage is ditticult ; there are three ways of taking it ; (a) The ancient \'SS tr. ' when he (Israel) went out from the land of fc^^ypt,' as LXX i» rp t^t\'/tt* »-Wo* ix rxi AJyCirrot/ ; Vuljj. * Cum exiret de Terra- .K^^ypti," after which Wye. 13S3, ' whanne he gede out of the lond of Egipt,' and Dou. ' when he came out of the LAnd of Aejrypt ' (with the mart;. ' The people of Israel signifietl hy Joseph, as Fs 801 •) ; and so all the Kns- \ SS liefore AV. But the tr« is quite impossiltle, the Sy never meaning ix ' out of,' or anything approaching that. (I)) * When he (Joseph, in person) went out over t!io land of Ej;>-pt,' a direct ref. to Gn 41*^, which gives no appropriate sense, (c) ' When He (J") went forth against the land of I^'vpt,* a reference to the death of the firstborn, and especially to Ex 11* ' I will go forth through the midst of Eg.'i'pt.' So Del., I'erowne, Burgess, de Witt, Kirkpatrick. and nearly all recent commen- tators. Kay thinks th;it, while the ref. is to nod, the 8i>ei:ial language recalls On 41-**: as Joseph once went out over the land of Egypt to benefit them, so now, since they have for- gotten their benefactor, Joseph's God will go out over the lund in righteous judgment. L'hej-ne believes the present Heb. text to be corrupt, and that the VSS exhibit the true text ; he therefore would render, as (a), ' when he (Israel and Joseph) went forth from the land of Eg^-pt.' So Wellh. (in Ilaupt) who reads "^y© for *?y (but is Si'p ever used simply of UavingT).