everywhere in the New Testament of the blowing of the wind (Matt. vii. 25, 27; Luke xii. 55; John vi. 18). It frequently occurs in the classics in the sense of wind. Thus Aristoph- anes, To mvedw éhatTov ylyveras, the wind ts dying away (“ Knights,” 441), also in the New Testament, Heb. i. 7, where the proper translation is, “who maketh His angels winds,” quoted from Ps. ciii. 4 (Sept.). In the Septuagint, 1 Kings xviii, 45; xix. 11; 2 Kings iii. 17; Job i. 19. In the New Testament, in the sense of breath, 2 Thess. ii. 8 ; Apoc, xiids The usual rendering, wind, is confirmed here by the use of the kindred verb avei, bloweth, and by ¢wvyv, sound, voice. Tho- luck thinks that the figure may have been suggested to Jesus by the sound of the night-wind sweeping through the narrow street.
Where it listeth (d7rov 3ére). On the verb 940, to will or determine, see on Matt. i.19. Listeth is old English for pleaseth or willeth, from the Anglo-Saxon Just, meaning pleas- wre. Chaucer has the forms leste, dust, and list.
“Strong was the wyn, and wel to drynke us leste (pleased).”’ ‘* Canterbury Tales,” 752.
‘* Love if thee Just.” “* Canterbury Tales,” 1185,
**She walketh up and down wher as hire list (wherever she pleases).” ‘* Canterbury Tales,” 1054,
‘* A wretch by fear, not force, like Hannibal, Drives back our troops, and conquers as she lists.” Shakspeare, ‘‘ Henry VI.,” Pt. Vs Shy Vegas
Hence listless is devoid of desire. The statement of Jesus is not meant to be scientifically precise, but is rather thrown into a poetic mould, akin to the familiar expression “free as the wind.” Compare 1 Cor. xii. 11; and for the more prosaic de- scription of the course of the wind, see Keel. i. 6.
Sound (povyv). Rev., voice. Used both of articulate and inarticulate utterances, as of the words from heaven at Jesus’