1:11 away (a-14) In those days conquerors transported conquered nations to distant seats, and replaced them by others, that national feeling might not subsist, but dependence be complete. 'Carrying away' is feeble for this, but I know no other word.... [ Continue Reading ]
11:3 wait (a-14) Probably, 'have we to do it,' not simply, 'are we doing it?'... [ Continue Reading ]
11:10 written, (b-8) Malachi 3:1 .... [ Continue Reading ]
11:11 one (c-28) Or 'the least.' It is the comparative degree; whoever else is taken, the 'one' is less; the idiomatic force is more preserved by 'a little one.'... [ Continue Reading ]
11:12 violence, (d-19) As 'forces his way,' Luke 16:16 .... [ Continue Reading ]
11:14 is (e-11) By saying, 'who is to come,' it is left in the abstract as in Greek -- the one who had this character in their mind.... [ Continue Reading ]
11:19 wine-drinking, (a-20) 'Spending his substance in eating and drinking.'... [ Continue Reading ]
11:20 place, (b-18) _ Ginomai_ , 'taken place,' or 'happened.' I do not say 'had been wrought,' because the emphasis is on the place of their happening rather than on the fact of their being wrought.... [ Continue Reading ]
11:21 place (b-18) _ Ginomai_ , 'taken place,' or 'happened.' I do not say 'had been wrought,' because the emphasis is on the place of their happening rather than on the fact of their being wrought.... [ Continue Reading ]
11:23 hades. (c-17) 'Hades' like 'Sheol' in the Old Testament, see Note at Psalms 6:5 , is a very vague expression used in general to designate the temporary state of departed spirits, the unseen or invisible world of spirits, upon which, till the coming of Christ, darkness and obscurity rested, as... [ Continue Reading ]
11:27 knows (d-14) know (d-24) _ Epiginosko_ , as ch. 7.16. It is real knowledge, not a mere objective acquaintance with a person.... [ Continue Reading ]