Mark 1:43

And he straitly charged him The word thus rendered occurs in four other places; (1) Matthew 9:30, "Jesus straitly chargedthem, saying, See that no man know it;" (2) Mark 14:5, "And they murmured againsther," said of the Apostles in their indignation against Mary; (3) John 11:33; John 11:38, "And He groanedin spirit," said of our Lord at the grave of Lazarus. It denotes (1) to be very angryor indignant, (2) to chargeor command with sternness.

straitly= strictly. Comp. Genesis 43:7, "The man asked us straitlyof our state;" Joshua 6:1, "Now Jericho was straitlyshut up." Comp. also Shakespeare, Richard III.i. i. 85, 86,

"His majesty hath straitlygiven in charge

That no man shall have private conference."

sent him away or put him forth. "He would allow no lingering, but required him to hasten on his errand, lest the report of what had been done should outrun him." It is the same word in the original as in Mark 1:12.