12-16. Compare Matt. viii. 2-4; Mark i. 40-45.
12. Full of leprosy. Matthew and Mark have simply a leper. The expression, full of leprosy, seems to be used here with professional accuracy. Leprosy was known among physi- cians under three forms: the dull white, the clear white, and the dlack. Luke means to describe an aggravated case. The word full in this connection is often used by medical writers, as, full of disease ; the veins full of blood; the ears full of
roaring.
Make me clean (xaJapicas). All three evangelists say cleanse instead of heal, because of the notion of uncleanness which specially attached to this malady.
13. | will (9€\@). See on Matt. i. 19.
Be thou clean (caJapicInr). Rev., more accurately, gives the force of the passive voice, be thow made clean.
Cu. V.] LUKE. 301.
14. He charged (mapnyyerev). A strong word, often of military orders. Aristotle uses it of a physician: to prescribe. Mark has éuBpipnodpevos, strictly or sternly charged. See on Mark i. 43.
No one (undevi). The conditional negative: no one that he might chance to meet.
Go, shew thyself. A lively change from the narrative to direct address.
15. Went abroad (dujpyero). Ata, throughout the region. Wyc., the word walked about.
Came together (cuvnpyovro). Imperfect. Hept coming together, or were coming.
To be healed (Separrever3ar). Originally, to be an attend- ant, to do service ; and therefore of a physician, to attend upon, or treat medically. In classical writers it has also the mean- ing to heal, as undoubtedly in the New Testament, and in Luke (xiii. 14; Acts iv. 14, etc.). See on Matt. viii. 7, and compare idowat, to heal, in ver. 17.
Infirmities (4c9everav). A strictly literal rendering ; 4, not, and o%évos, strength, exactly answering to the Latin in, not, and Jirmus, strong.
16. Withdrew (jv iroywpav). The participle with the imper- fect of the finite verb denoting something in progress, and thus corresponding to the imperfect in ver. 15. The multitudes were coming together, but he was engaged m retirement and prayer, so that he was inaccessible. The word occurs only in Luke, the usual New Testament word for withdraw being ava- yopéo. See Matt. ii. 12; xii. 15; Mark iii. 7.
17-26. Compare Mark ii. 1-12.
302 WORD STUDIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. [Cu V.
17. He was teaching. The prononn has aslightly emphatic force: he as distinguished from the Pharisees and teachers of the law.
Doctors of the law (voyodiddoxadot). Only in Luke and 1 Tim. i. 7. Luke often uses vopxds, conversant with the law, but in the other word the element of teaching is emphasized, probably in intentional contrast with Christ’s teaching.
Judaea and Jerusalem. The Rabbinical writers divided Judaea proper into three parts—mountain, sea-shore, and valley —Jerusalem being regarded as a separate district. ‘‘ Only one intimately acquainted with the state of matters at the time, would, with the Rabbis, have distinguished Jerusalem as a dis- trict separate from all the rest of Judaea, as Luke markedly does on several occasions (Acts i. 8; x. 39)” (Edersheim, ‘“ Jew- ish Social Life”).
Was present to healthem. The A. V. follows the read- ing, avdtovs, them ; i.e., the sufferers who were present, referring back to ver. 15. The best texts, however, read avtév, him, referring to Christ, and meaning was present that he should heal ; i.e., in aid of his healing. So Rev.
18. Taken with a palsy (aapaderuvpévos). Rev., more neatly, palsteed. Whenever Luke mentions this disease, he uses the verb and not the adjective mrapadvutixos, paralytic (as Matt. iv. 245; viii. 6; Mark ii. 3-10; compare Acts viii. 7; ix. 33); his usage in this respect being in strict accord with that of medical writers.
19. Tiles. Wye. has sclattis, slates.
Couch (xAwidio). Luke uses four words for the beds of the sick: «ivy, as ver. 18, the general word for a bed or couch; xpaBBartos (Acts v. 15; ix. 83), a rude pallet (see on Mark ii. 4); «dvidvor, a small couch or litter, as here, a couch so light that a woman could lift and carry it away. Thus, in the