4, From the last would easily arise the sense of portion, something taken from among the whole, as Ly 416 ‘And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock’s blood’; Dn 2% “1 have found a man of the captives of Judah’; 2* ‘There shall be in it of the strength of the iron’; Mt 258 ‘Give us of your oil’; 267 ‘ Drink ye all of it’; To 11" ‘He strake of the gall on his father’s eyes.’ Cf. Mt 23" Tind. ‘I sende unto you prophetes, wyse men, and scribes; and of them ye shall kyll and crucifie; and of them ye shall scourge in youre synagoges.’
5. From a felt of time, as Mk 9” ‘Of a child’ (παιδιόθεν). Then throughout a certain time, as Lk 238 ‘ He was desirous to see him of a long season’ (ἐξ ἱκανοῦ ; edd. ἐξ ἱκανῶν χρόνων, RV ‘of a long time’) ; Ac 8" ‘of long time he had bewitched them? (ἱκανῷ χρόνῳ). Cf. Berners, Froissart, i. 10, ‘a tempest took them in the sea, that put them so far out of their course that they wist not of two days where they were’; Knox, Works, iii. 241, ‘They are not permitted of any continuance to blaspheme.’
6. As the link between an act or state and its origin, ‘of’ was used with great freedom. Thus it is equivalent to: (1) At in 2S 1923 ‘ Have we eaten at all of the king’s cost?’ (ab=a-yp, lit. ‘from the king’; LXX ἐκ τοῦ βασιλέως, Vulg. a rege). (2) Concerning, Dn 715 ‘Then I would Talon ie truth of the fourth beast’ (RV ‘concerning’); 1 Es 39 ‘Of whose side the king . . . shall judge that his
sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given’ (8» ἂν κρίνῃ); Jn 1916 ‘Then remembered
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ὉΠΟΥ͂ that these things were written of him’ (ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ); Ac 4° ‘If we this day be examined of the good deed’ (ἐπὶ εὐεργεσίᾳ, RV ‘concerning’); 5 ‘they doubted of them, whereunto this would grow’ (διηπόρουν περὶ αὐτῶν, RV ‘were much per- plexed concerning them’); 15° ‘came together for to consider of this matter’ (περὶ τοῦ λόγου τούτου) ; 1Co 1" ‘It hath been declared unto me of you’ (περὶ ὑμῶν, RV ‘concerning you’). Cf. Gn 42° Tind. ‘ Joseph remembered his dreams which he dreamed of them’; Mt 2° Rhem. ‘ Goe, and inquire diligently of the childe’; 117 Rhem. ‘Jesus began to say to the multitudes of John’; Knox, Works, iii. 301, ‘That God was eyther impotente, . . . or else, that he was mutable and unjust of his promyses. ’ (3) For, or on account of, as Job 13 %in8 «Job re- proveth his friends of partiality’; Sir 4% ‘Be abashed of the error of thine ignorance’ (περὶ τῆς ἀπαιδευσίας σου, RV ‘for thine ignorance’) ; 4372 ‘A present remedy of all is a mist coming speedily’ (ἴασις πάντων, RV ‘A mist coming speedily is οἷς healing of all things’); Mt 1818 ‘he rejoiceth more of that sheep than of the ninety and nine’ (ἐπί, RV ‘ over’); Jn 2" ‘ The zeal of thine house’ (ὁ ζῆλος τοῦ οἴκου cov); 168 ‘ He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment’ (περὶ); Ac 21” ‘They are all zealous of the law’ (ζηλωταὶ τοῦ νόμου, RV ‘ for’); Ro 10?‘ They havea zeal of God’ (ζῆλον θεοῦ, RV ‘for’); 2 Co 7* ‘Great is my glory- ing of you’ (πρὸς ὑμᾶς, RV ‘on your behalt’). Ch. Ex 3’ Tind. ‘I have surely sene the trouble of my people which are in Egipte, and have herde their erye which they have of their taskmasters’; Jn 359 Tind. ‘But the frende of the brydegrome which stondeth by and heareth him, rejoyseth greately of the brydgrome’s voyce.’ So Berners, Froissart, p. 8, ‘Then the queen of England took leave of the earl of Hainault and of the countess, and thanked them greatly of their honour, feast, and good cheer, that they had made her’; and Milton, Areopag. (Hales’ ed. p. 46), ‘What some lament of, we rather ahonld Tejoice at.’ (4) On or upon, as Ps 998 “Thou tookest vengeance of their inventions’ ; Lk 185 ‘ Avenge me of mine adversary’ (ἀπό) ; Wis 1719 ‘ which could of no side be avoided’ (μηδαμόθεν, RV ‘on no side’); He 10% ‘ye had compassion of me in my bonds’ (τοῖς δεσμοῖς [edd. δεσμίοις] μου συνε- παθήσατε, RV ‘ye had compassion on them that were in bonds’). Cf. Is 14! Geneva, ‘ For the Lord wil have compassion of Iaakob.’ In the Pr. Bk. of 1559 oceurs the phrase ‘if ye stand by as gazers and lookers of them that do communicate’; in 1552 it was ‘lookers on,’ to which the ed. of 1604 returned. Hall has the same use of the word in Works, iii. 440, ‘The wise and Almighty maker of these earthen mines, esteems the best metals but as thick clay; and why should we set any other rice of them than their Creator?’ (5) Over, 1 Co ‘*The wife hath not power of her own body’ (τοῦ ἰδίου σώματος οὐκ ἐξουσιάζει, RV ‘hath not power over’). Cf. Job 42? Cov. ‘I knowe that thou hast power of all things.’ (6) With, as 2S 19% ‘He had pa the king of sustenance’ (RV ‘with’); Ca and 5° ‘T am sick of love.’* Wyclif (Select Works, iii. 84) says, ‘Thou schuldist love thi God of al thin herte, of al thi soule, and of al thi mynde.’ Cf. Tindale, Expos. p. 109, ‘Though they persecute thee from house to house a thou- sand times, yet shall God provide thee of another’; Rutherford, Letters, No. xlv. ‘I can be content of shame in that work, if my Lord and Master be