Cast him down headlong (xataxpnuvica). Only here in New Testament, and in the Septuagint only in 2 Chron. xxv. 12.
31-37. Compare Mark i. 9128.
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31. Taught (nv diddoxwv). Correctly, as Rev., was teaching. The finite verb and participle denoting continuance.
On the Sabbath-days (Tots cad8Bacw). Rev., day. The word is often used in the plural form for the single day, as in ver. 16; probably after the analogy of plural names of festi- vals, as Ta abuua, the feast of unleavened bread ; Ta yevéota, the birth-day ; or perhaps following the Aramaic plural.
32. They were astonished (é£erAxjocovto). See on Matt. vil. 28.
33. A spirit of an unclean devil. Where the rendering should be demon. This is the only case in which Luke adds to that word the epithet wnclean.
34. What have we to do with thee (ri juiv Kal col)? Lit., what is there to us and to thee ? 2.e., what have we in common ?
So Wye.
35. Hold thy peace (dione). Lit., be muzzled or gagged. See on Matt. xxii. 12.
Had thrown (piyav). Used in connection with disease by Luke only, and only here. In medical language, of convulsions, fits, ete.
Hurt him not (undev Braav adrov). Lit., in no possible way. Mark omits this detail, which a physician would be care- ful to note. Brae, to injure, occurs but twice in New Testament—here and Mark xvi. 18. It is common in medical language, opposed to weretv, to benefit, as of medicines or diet hurting or benefiting.
36. They were all amazed (éyévero SduBos émi TAVTAS). Lit., as Rev., amazement came upon all. OdpuBos, amazement, is used by Luke only. The kindred verb, SauBéoua, to be amazed, occurs only once in Luke (Acts ix. 6), and three times in Mark; while Mark alone has the strong compound é«IapBéw, to be greatly amazed (Mark ix. 15).
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37. The fame (jyos). Lit., noise. Rev., rwmor. Only here, ch. xxi. 25, where the correct reading is #yous, the roaring, and Actsii.2. Heb. xii. 19 is a quotation from the Septuagint. It is the word used in Acts ii. 2 of the mighty rushing wind at Pentecost. Mark uses dxov, in its earlier sense of a report. The same word occurs in Luke, but always in the sense in which medical writers employed it—hearing or the ears. See ch. vii. 1; Acts xvii. 20; xxviii. 26. "Hyos was the medical term for sound in the ears or head. Hippocrates uses both words together: “the ears (aoa) are full of sound (Hyov) 5” and Aretaeus of the noise of the sea, as Luke xxi. 25.
38-41. Compare Matt. viii. 14-17; Mark i. 29-34.
38. Taken (cuveyouévn). Rev., holden. So Wyc. See on Matt. iv. 24. The word is used nine times by Luke, and only three times elsewhere. Paul uses it of the constraining of Christ’s love (2 Cor. v. 14), and of being ina strait (Philip. i. 93). In Acts xxviii. 8, it is joined with fever, as here, and is a common medical term in the same sense.
A great fever (zupeT@ peyaro). Another mark of the physician. The epithet great is peculiar to Luke. The ancient physicians distinguished fevers into great and small.
39. He stood over her. Asaphysician might do. Peculiar to Luke.
Rebuked. Peculiar to Luke.
40. When the sun was setting. The people brought their sick at that hour, not only because of the coolness, but because it was the end of the Sabbath, and carrying a sick person was regarded as work. See John v. 10.
Diseases (pico). See on Matt. iv. 23. Wye., Sick men with divers languishings.
Laid his hands on. Peculiar to Luke.
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Every one. ‘Implying the solicitude and indefatigableness of this miraculous ministry of love ” (Meyer).