39. Peace, be still (c1é7a, medhipwoo). Lit., be silent! be muzzled! Wrye., rather tamely, wax dumb / How much more vivid than the narratives of either Matthew or Luke is this per- sonification and rebuke of the sea as a raging monster.
Ceased (éxdracev). From xézros, meaning, 1, beating ; 2, toil ; 3, weariness. A beautiful and picturesque word. The sea sank to rest as if exhausted by its own beating.
There was (éyévero). More strictly, there arose or ensued. The aorist tense indicates something immediate. Tynd. has
followed. Calm. Wye., peaceableness.
41. They feared exceedingly (époPyIncav poBov peyay). Lit., they feared a great fear.
186 WORD STUDIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. (Cu. V.
What manner of man is this ? (rés dpa ob76s éotw ;). The A. V. is rather a rendering of Matthew’s motatés, what man- ner of (viii. 27), than of Mark’s ris, who. The Rev. gives it rightly : Who then is this? The then (dpa) is argumentative. Since these things are so, who then is this ?
3. The details of vv. 3-5 are peculiar to Mark. “ The pict- ure of the miserable man is fearful; and in drawing it, each evangelist has some touches which are peculiarly his own; but St. Mark’s is the most eminently graphic of all, adding, as it does, many strokes which wonderfully heighten the terribleness of the man’s condition, and also magnify the glory of his cure” (Trench, ‘ Miracles ”’).
Dwelling (xatoixnow). The cata, down, gives the sense of a settled habitation. Compare our phrase settled down. So Tynd., his abiding.
The tombs (trois wvjpacww). “In unclean places, unclean because of the dead men’s bones which were there. To those who did not on this account shun them, these tombs of the Jews would afford ample shelter, being either natural caves or re- cesses hewn by art out of the rock, often so large as to be sup- ported with columns, and with cells upon their sides for the reception of the dead. Being, too, without the cities, and oftentimes in remote and solitary places, they would attract those who songht to flee from all fellowship of their kind ” (Trench, “ Miracles”). =
4. With fetters and chains (édaus Kal ddtoeow). édn, fetter, is akin to méfa, the mstep ; just as the Latin pedica, a shackle, is related to pes, a foot. The Anglo-Saxon plural of fot (foot) is fet ; so that fetter is feeter. So Chaucer:
“The pure fetters on his shinnes grete Were of his bitter salte teres wete.” “Anvorts (derivation uncertain) is a cham, a generic word, denot- ing a bond which might be on any part of the body.
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Broken in pieces (cuvtetpipIac). The verb ouvTpiBo means originally to rub together, to grind or crush. It has been sug- gested that the fetters might have been of cords which could be rubbed to pieces. Wye. renders, Had broken the stocks to small gobbets.
5. Crying (xpafwv). Rev., erying out. The verb denotes an inarticulate ery ; a shriek. Aristophanes uses it of the frogs (“ Ranae,” 258), and of the bawling of a boor (“ Equites,” 285).
6. Afar off (ard paxpddev). Peculiar to Mark, as is also he ran.
7. Crying—he saith. The inarticulate cry (ver. 5), and then the articulate speech.
What have I to do with thee ? (r/éuol cal col ;). Lit., what is there to me and thee? What have we in common ?
| adjure thee by God. Stronger than Luke’s J pray thee. The verb opxifw, I adjure, is condemned by the grammarians as inelegant.
8. For he said (édeyev). Imperfect tense, he was saying ; the force of which is lost both in the A. V. and Rev. The im- perfect gives the reason for this strange entreaty of the demon. Jesus was commanding, was saying “ come out ; ” and, as in the ease of the epileptic child at the Transfiguration Mount, the baffled spirit wreaked his malice on the man. The literal ren- dering of the imperfect brings out the simultaneousness of Christ’s exorcism, the outbreak of demoniac malice, and the cry Torment me not.