13. Ran (Spunoev). The verb indicates hasty, headlong mo- tion. Hence, as Rev., rushed.
Two Thousand. As usual, Mark alone gives the detail of number.
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A steep place. But the noun has the definite article: tod Kpnuvor, the steep, as Rev.
15. See (Jewpodaw). Rev., rightly, behold. For it was more than simple seeing. The verb means looking stedfastly, as one who has an interest in the object, and with a view to search into and understand it: to look wguéringly and intently.
Clothed. Compare Luke viii. 27. Lor a long time he had worn no clothes.
18. When he was come (éuBaivoytos avtod). The participle is in the present tense. Not after he had embarked, but while he was in the act. Hence Rey., rightly, as he was entering. With this corresponds the graphic imperfect tapexares : While he was stepping into the boat the restored man was beseeching him.
That (iva). In order that. Not the subject but the aim of the entreaty.
23. My little daughter (76 Svyarpiov). This little endear- ing touch in the use of the diminutive is peculiar to Mark.
Lieth at the point of death (écyarws eye). One of the uncouth phrases peculiar to Mark’s style, and which are cited by some as evidence of the early composition of his gospel.
I pray thee come (iva é\S@v). The words J pray thee are not in the Greek. Literally the ruler’s words run thus: My lit- tle daughter lieth at the point of death—that thow come, ete. In his anguish he speaks brokenly and incoherently.
He went (arfrdev). Lit, went away. The aorist tense, denoting action once for all, is in contrast with the imperfects, jeorovse, kept following, and cvvé9uBov, kept thronging. The multitude kept following and thronging as he went along. The preposition ovy, together, in the latter verb, indicates the wnited
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pressure of a crowd. Compare Tynd., ver.31. Zhrusting thee on every side. ,
96. Mark is much fuller and more vivid than Matthew or Luke.
Had suffered (zaSotca). To be taken, as everywhere in the New Testament, in the sense of suffering pain, not merely sub- jected to treatment. What she may have suffered will appear from the prescription for the medical treatment of such a com- plaint given in the Talmud. “Take of the gum of Alexandria the weight of a zuzee (a fractional silver coin); of alum the same; of crocus the same. Let them be bruised together, and given in wine to the woman that has an issue of blood. If this does not benefit, take of Persian onions three logs (pints) ; boil them in wine, and give her to drink, and say, ‘ Arise from thy flux’ If this does not cure her, set her in a place where two ways meet, and let her hold a cup of wine in her right hand, and let some one come behind and frighten her, and say, ‘ Arise from thy flux.’ But if that do no good, take a handful of cum- min (a kind of fennel), a handful of crocus, and a handful of fenugreek (another kind of fennel). Let these be boiled in wine and give them her to drink, and say, ‘ Arise from thy flux!’” If these do no good, other doses, over ten in number, are prescribed, among them this: “ Let them dig seven ditches, in which let them burn some cuttings of vines, not yet four years old. Let her take in her hand a cup of wine, and let them lead her away from this ditch, and make her sit down over that. And let them remove her from that, and make her sit down over an- other, saying to her at each remove, ‘Arise from thy flux! ne (Quoted from Lightfoot by Geikie, “ Life and Words of Christ ap