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tion, as he was born and lived in the island of Cos, off the coast ‘of Caria. Galen was of Pergamus in Mysia; Dioscorides, of Anazarba in Cilicia; and Aretaeus, of Cappadocia.
The medical peculiarities of Luke’s style appear, first, in words and phrases used in descriptions of diseases or of miracles of healing. His terms are of the technical character peculiar to a medical man. Thus, in the account of the healing of Simon’s wife’s mother (Luke iv. 38, 39), we read that she was taken (cuveyopuévn) with a great fever (Tuper@ peyaro). The word taken is used nine times by Luke, and only three times in the rest of the New Testament. It occurs frequently in this sense in the medical writers, as does also the simple verb eye, to have or hold. Moreover, according to Galen, the ancient physicians were accustomed to distinguish between great and little fevers, In the parabie of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke xvi. 19-26), we find eirxapévos, full of sores, the regular medical term for to be ulcerated : dSvvdpat, to be in pain, occurs four times in Luke’s writings, and nowhere else in the New Testament, but frequently in Galen, Aretaeus, and Hippocrates. “E&épuée, gave up the ghost (Acts v. 5, 10), ig a rare word, used by Luke only, and occurring only three times in the New Testament. It seems to be almost confined to medical writers, and to be used rarely even by them. In the proverb of “the camel and the needle’s eye,” Matthew and Mark use for needle the vulgar word pais, while Luke alone uses Berovn, the surgical needle.
These terms will be pointed out in the notes as they occur.
Second, the ordinary diction of the evangelist, when dealing with unprofessional subjects, has often a medical flavor, which asserts itself in words peculiar¢o him, or more common in his writ- ings than elsewhere in the New Testament, and all of which were in common use among the Greek physicians. Thus Matthew (xxiii. 4) says that the scribes and Pharisees will not move (xevcat) the burdens they impose, with one of their fingers. Luke, recording a similar saying (xi. 46), says, “ye yourselves touch (mpoowavere) not the burdens,” using a technical term for gently feeling the pulse, or a sore or tender part of the body. The word occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. ‘No mean city ” (donwos, Acts xxi. 39). The word mean, peculiar