Peace. "These are last words, as of one who is about to go away and says 'good - night ' or gives his blessing" [λ υ τ η ε ρ]. Peace! was the ordinary oriental greeting at parting. Compare John 20:21.

My peace I give. Compare 1 John 3:1. "It is of his own that one gives" (Godet).

Let it be afraid [δ ε ι λ ι α τ ω]. Only here in the New Testament. Properly it signifies cowardly fear. Rev., fearful. The kindred adjective deilov fearful, is used by Matthew of the disciples in the storm (viii. 26), and in Revelation of those who deny the faith through fear of persecution (xxi. 8). The kindred noun, deilia, occurs only in 2 Timothy 1:7, "God hath not given us the spirit of fear," contrasted with the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.

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Old Testament