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τῆς θέρµης ἐξελθοῦσα καθῆψε τῆς χειρὸς αὐτοῦ.
539 4. ὡς δὲ εἶδον
οἱ βάρβαροι κρεµάµενον τὸ θηρίον ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτοῦ, ἔλεγον πρὸς
ἀλλήλους, Πάντως Φφονεύς ἐστιν 6
τὸ θηρίον eis τὸ wip, ἔπαθεν οὐδὲν κακόν.
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αὐτὸν pede! πίµπρασθαι ἢ
ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, ὃν διασωθέντα ἐκ τῆς θαλάσσης ἡ δίκη Liv οὐκ εἴασεν.
5. ὁ μὲν οὖν ἀποτινάξας 6. οἱ δὲ προσεδόκων
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Ίπιμπρασθαι ScBHLP, Chrys., so Lach., W.H., Weiss, Wendt, Blass, Hilg. ; Tisch. has εµπιπρασ. with $§*; πιπρασθ. A.
Hackett’s note for similar proof. Mr. Lewin, as late as 1853, believed that he saw a viper near St. Paul’s Bay, Sz. Paul, ii., 200.—é«: “out of,” but if ἀπό ‘by reason of,” Κ.Υ. margin, ‘from the heat,” the viper numbed by the cold felt the sudden heat, and was restored to activity, cf. on its habits (Hackett), ἀπό “in cause significatu sepe apud Grecos,” Grotius, Bengel. Cf. xx. 9, and Luke xxi. 26.-- ἐξελθοῦσα, see critical note. διεξ. supported by Meyer and Alford, as if the serpent glided out through the sticks.— θέρµης: only in Luke in N.T., but in classics and in LXX, Job vi. 17, Ps. xviii. (xix.) 6, Eccl. iv. 11, Ecclus. XxxViii. 28; often used in medical writers instead of θερµότης (Hobart), but the latter is also used in ΗΠΙρΡ.--καθῆψε: only here in N.T., but frequent in classi- cal Greek, and usually in middle, although not found in LXX, cf. however Symm., καθάπτεσθαι, Cant. i. 6, cf. Epict., Diss., iii., 20, 10, 2.Ε., τοῦ τραχήλου: (Grimm): Blass, Page, Felten render “‘ bit,”’ momor- dit.. So Nésgen and Zéckler, who think that this is evidently meant from the con- text, although not necessarily contained in the verb itself; Dioscorides used it of poisonous matter introduced into the body (Hobart, p. 288). Blass thus ex- presses the force of the aorist, ‘‘ momento temporis hoc factum est, priusquam P. manum retraxisset’’.
Ver. 4. τὸ θηρίο: ‘the beast,” R.V. Although this is the meaning of the Greek word, it is to be noted that St. Luke uses it here exactly as the medi- cal writers, who applied it to venomous serpents—in particular, to the viper, ἔχιδνα (so Aristotle), and an antidote made chiefly from the flesh of vipers went by the name ἡ θηριακή (Hobart, Zahn, Knabenbauer), and those bitten by a viper were called θηριόδηκτοι.--- kpep. ἐκ; “hanging from,” R.V., it clung by its mouth to the hand of Paul, construction as in classical Greek, of.
2 Mace. vi. 10.—mdvrws: only in Luke and Paul, expressing strong affirmation, of. xxi. 22, and Luke iv. 23; cf. Tob. xiv. 8, 2 Macc. iii. 13.--φονεύς, a mur- derer, and therefore justice demands his life, death for death; they saw that he was a prisoner perhaps from his chains (Bengel) ; at all events the solders would have guarded him, as we may infer from xxvii. 42.—h Δίκη: “justice,” R.V., ‘of. Hesiod, Theog., 902; so in Soph., Ant., 544; Cd. Col., 1384; for the personification cf. Wisdom i. 8, xi. 20, and several instances in 4 Macc., see Grimm-Thayer, sub v. The Maltese may have heard the name from the Greeks or Romans, or they may have honoured a goddess of their own, whose name Luke here represents by ἡ A., “‘debile lumen nature . . . nec quis sit 6 Δίκαιος ¥ustus Ultor norunt,’”’ Ben- 6ε].-- διασωθέντα, see on xxvii. 43. — οὐκ εἴασεν: “hath not suffered,” they thought of him as already dead, as if the deadly bite had already done its work; not sinit, as Vulgate, but sivit. Ver. 5. ἀποτ.: only in Luke, Luke ix. 5, in parallel in Matt. and Mark, ἐκτ., cf. Lam. ii. 7, and in classical Greek, Eur., Bacch., 253. — ἔπαθεν οὐδὲν κακόν, cf. Mark xvi. 18, Luke