Mark 6:25

straightway with haste Observe the ready alacrity, with which she proved herself a true daughter of her mother.

by and by i. e. "immediately." Comp. Matthew 13:21, "when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and byhe is offended;" Luke 17:7, "which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by?" Luke 21:9, "but the end is not by and by," In all these instances the expression has its old meaning of "at once," "immediately." Thus Edward IV. is reported to have said on his death-bed, "I wote not whether any prechers" woordes ought more to moue you than I that is goyng by and byto the place that they all preche of," Hall, Ed. v. fol. 116; "Men dare not give the name of emperor to any other, for he punisheth his offender and traitor by and by;but they dare give the name of God to others, because He for repentance suffereth the offenders;" Homily Against Idolatry, pt. iii.

a charger = "a large dish," or "platter." This word only occurs here and in the parallel, Matthew 14:8. It comes from the Fr. chargerand O. E. charge= "to load;" hence it means "that on which anything is laid, a dish," as the Hebrew word thus rendered (Numbers 7:13, &c.) is elsewhere given (Exodus 25:29). Thus Fuller says of Oswald, king of Northumberland, when he was told that a number of poor people were at his gate, that he commanded "not onely that the meat set before him should be given them, but also that the large Silver-Chargerholding the same should be broken in pieces and (in want, perchance, of present coin) parted betwixt them:" Ch. Hist. ii. 76.