Ver. 7. πιάσας, cf. xii. 4: so in LXX,
Cant. ii. 15, Ecclesiasticus xxiii. 21, A. al. χειρὸς very similar to, if not exactly, a partitive genitive, found after verbs of touching, etc., inasmuch as the touching affects only a part of the object (Mark v. 30), and so too often after verbs of taking hold of, the part or the limit grasped is put in the genitive, Mark v. 41 (accusa- tive being used when the whole person is
nm a 7 ~ A αὐτὸν τῆς δεξιᾶς χειρὸς 1 ἤγειρε' παραχρῆμα δὲ ἐστερεώθησαν αὐτοῦ ai βάσεις καὶ τὰ σφυρὰ,; 8. καὶ ὃ ἐξαλλόμενος ἔστη καὶ περιεπάτει,
‘ Renn 4 > a 3 κ νε x - XQ ε / \ Kal εἰσῆλθε σὺν αὖτοις εἰς τὸ ιερὸν περιπατῶν καὶ ἀλλόμενος καὶ
1 ηγειρε SABCG 15, 18, 61, Syr. (P. and H.), Arm., Sah., Boh., Aeth., Bas., Cypr., Lucif. insert αυτον; so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt (but omitted by Meyer) —omitted in DEP.
2 avrov at βασεις DEGP, Chrys.; but at β. avrov SABC 61, Vulg., Bas., Tert., Lucif., so Tisch., W.H., Weiss. σφυρα $§°B°C?DEGP, so Hilg.; but σφνδρα N¥*B*C*, so Tisch., W.H., Weiss, Blass (Winer-Schmiedel, p. 64).
3 kar εξαλλοµενος εστη Omit Flor. περιεπατει, after this word D inserts yatpopevos (Χαιρων E), Flor. gaudens et exultans = Χαιρων και εξαλλοµεγνος in B, 5ο Hilg. περι- πατων και αλλ. και omitted by D, Flor. It is difficult to determine the precise order of events—possibly ‘‘leaping”’ is not mentioned at all in Western text, and in it the healed man does not at all events ‘‘leap” in the Temple. It is again difficult to. believe that in this passage the common text comes from a revision of the author,
and not rather through corruption and confusion.
seized, Matt. xiv. 3), Blass, Grammatik des N. G., p. 100, ¢f. classical use in Eurip., Hec., 523. The meaning of πιάζω in N.T. and in the LXX has passed into modern Greek = πιάνω = seize, apprehend (Kennedy). For a similar use see also 2 Cor. xi. 32, Rev. xix. 20, and John vii. 30, 32, 33, 44, viii, 20, X. 39, Xi. 57, XXi. 3, 1Ο.--παρα- χρῆμα, {.ε., παρὰ τὸ χρῆμα, forthwith, immediately, auf der Stelle, on the spot, specially characteristic of St. Luke, both in Gospel and Acts (cf. εὐθύς of St. Mark). It is found no less than ten times in the Gospel, and six to seven times in Acts, elsewhere in N.T. only twice, Matt. xxi. 19, 20; several times in LXX, Wisdom xviii. 17, Tobit viii. 3, S., 2 Mace. iv. 34, 38, etc., 4 Macc. xiv. 9, Bel and the Dragon, ver. 39, 42, Theod., and in Num. vi. 9, xii. 4, AB?R., Isaiah xxix.
5, for Hebrew, OND; frequent in
Attic prose; see also Dalman, Die Worte Fesu, pp. 22,29. But as the word is so manifestly characteristic of St. Luke it is noteworthy that in the large majority of instances it is employed by him in connection with miracles of healing or the infliction of disease and death, and this frequency of use and application may be paralleled by the constant em- ployment of the word in an analogous way in medical writers ; see, ¢.g., Hobart, Medical Language of St. Luke, and in- stances in Hippocrates, Galen, Dios- corides. — ἐστερεώθησαν: στερεόω = to make firm or solid; it cannot by any means be regarded only as a techni- cal medical term, but as a matter of fact it was often employed in medical lan- guage (so also the adjective στερεός),
and this use of the word makes it a natural one for a medical man to employ. here, especially in connection with βάσεις and σφυρά. It is used only by St. Luke in the N.T. (ver. 16 and xvi. 5), but very frequently in the LXX. The near- est approach to a medical use of the word is given perhaps by Wetstein, in loco, Xen., Ped., viiii—at βάσεις, ‘the feet’? (Batvw). The word is constantly used in LXX, but for the most part in the sense of something upon which a thing may rest, but it is found in the same sense as here in Wisdom xiii. 18 ; cf. also Jos., Ant., vii., 3, 5, so in Plato, Time@us, 92, A. It was in frequent use amongst medical men, and its employ- ment here, and here only in the N.T., with the mention of the other details, e.g., the more precise σφυρά, ‘“ ankle- bones,” also only found in this one pas- sage in N.T., has been justly. held to point to the technical description of a medical man; see not only Hobart, p. 34 ff., u. s., and Belcher’s Miracles of - Healing, p. 41, but Bengel, Zéckler, Rendall, Zahn.