Away (aipe). Lit., take away. Compare Acts xxi. 36; Xxli, 22.
19. Who (éc7us). Classifying him. One of such a kind as that he had been imprisoned, ete.
20. Spake (zpocedwvyncev). Addressed. Compare Acts xxi. 40; xxii. 2. Always in the New Testament in the sense of to accost, whether an individual or a crowd.
21. Shouted (ézrefavovr). Imperfect. Kept shouting. Used by Luke only. Compare Acts xii. 22; xxii. 24.
22. Said (edrev). Dropping the speech-making tone, and simply asking a question.
23. They were instant (éréxewro). Instant, in the sense of urgent, es: See on ch. vii. 4. Compare Rom. xii. 12; 2 Tim. iv. 2; Luke vii. 4; Acts xxvi. 7. The verb means Zo lie upon, and ee to our vulgarism, to lay one’s self down to work. Compare Aristophanes, “Knights,” 253: xduxe(uevos Boa, roar with all your might. Lit., roar, lying down to tt.
Their voices. Omit of the chief priests.
Prevailed (xarlayvov). Had power (laxvs) to bear down (katd) the remonstrances of Pilate. Only here and Matt. xvi. 18.
24, Gave sentence (ézéxpwev). Pronounced the final sen- tence. Only here in New Testament.
96-33. Compare Matt. xxvii. 831-34; Mark xv. 20-23.
26. Laid hold on (émiAaBopevor). Compare the peculiar word used by Matthew and Mark. See on Matt. v. 41.
430. WORD STUDIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. [Cu. XXIIL
27-82. Peculiar to Luke. See Introduction, on the gospel of womanhood.
30. Hills (Govvots). Only here and ch. iii. 5.
31. Tree (EVAw). Originally wood, timber. In later Greek, atree. Used of the cross by Peter, Acts v. 30 ; x. 39; and 1 Pet. ii. 24. Compare Gal. iii. 13.
32. Two other. The possible omission of a comma before malefactors in the A. V. might make a very awkward and un- pleasant statement. Better Rev., two others, malefactors.
Put to death (avaipedjvar). Lit., to take up and carry away; so that the Greek idiom answers to our taken off. So Shak-
speare : ‘«The deep damnation of his taking off.” Pp g Macbeth, i., 7.
‘‘Let her who would be rid of him, devise His speedy taking off.” Lear, v., 1.
33. Calvary (Kpaviov). The Greek word is the translation of the Hebrew Golgotha. See on Matt. xxvii. 33.
35-43. Compare Matt. xxvii. 39-44; Mark xv. 29-39, 35. Beholding. See on ch. x. 18. Scoffed. See onch. xvi. 14.
Ifhe. The A. V. does not give the contemptuous emphasis on ovTos, this fellow.
36. Coming to him. Coming up close to the cross. Vinegar. See on Matt. xxvii. 34.
38. Superscription. See on Mark xy. 26,
Cu. XXIIL] LUKE. 431 39. Railed (€Bracgyuer). Imperfect: kept up a railing. 41. Receive. Ave recewing would be better.
Amiss (atoov). Lit., owt of place, and so strange, eccentric, perverse ; asin 2 Thess. ili. 2, where it isrendered wnreasonable. The expression here answers nearly to our familiar phrase, “has done nothing out of the way.’ Compare Acts xxviii. 6; no harm.
42. Into thy kingdom. Some texts read for eis, ¢nto, év, in. So Rev. In that case we must understand, “in thy kingly
glory.”
43. In Paradise (zapadetow). Originally an enclosed park, or pleasure-ground. Xenophon uses it of the parks of the Per- sian kings and nobles. “There (at Celaenae) Cyrus had a palace and a great park (7rapddevcos), full of wild animals, which he hunted on horseback. . . . Through the midst of the park flows the river Maeander (“ Anabasis,” i., 2,7). And again: ‘The Greeks encamped near a great and beautiful park, thickly grown with all kinds of trees” (ii. 4,14.) In the Septuagint, Gen. 1i. 8, of the garden of Eden. In the Jewish theology, the department of Hades where the blessed souls await the resur- rection ; and therefore equivalent to Abraham’s bosom (ch. xvi. 22, 23). It occurs three times in the New Testament : here; 2 Cor. xii.4; Apoce. ii. 7; and always of the abode of the blessed.