An innumerable multitude [τ ω ν μ υ ρ ι α δ ω ν τ ο υ ο χ λ ο υ]. The word muriav strictly means a number of ten thousand. It is our word myriad. Hence, generally, of any countless number. First of all. Many connect this with what follows : "first of all beware," etc. Leaven. See on Matthew 13:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
Covered up [σ υ γ κ ε κ α λ υ μ μ ε ν ο ν]. Only here in New Testament : implying close concealment.... [ Continue Reading ]
Closets [τ α μ ε ι ο ι ς]. The word has the same root as temnw, to cut or divide, and means an apartment where supplies are divided and apportioned : a treasury, magazine, and therefore a secret and well - guarded place. There the steward [τ α μ ι α ς], the distributor, has his seat. House - tops.... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto you, my friends [υ μ ι ν τ ο ι ς φ ι λ ο ι ς μ ο υ]. See on Pharisees and lawyers, ch. 11 43, 46. Not an address, "O my friends," but, "unto you, the friends of me." Be not afraid of [μ η φ ο β η θ η τ ε α π ο]. Lit., "fear not from;" i e., from the hands of.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will forewarn [υ π ο δ ε ι ξ ω]. Rev., warn. See on warned, ch. 3 7. Hell. See on Matthew 5:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sparrows. See on Matthew 10:29. Fall. See on Matthew 10:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
Confess me. Lit., "confess in me." See on Matthew 10:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
A word [λ ο γ ο ν]. Distinguished from blaspheme, which follows. A word against the poor and humble Son of Man might, as Godet observes, have proceeded from a sincerely pious Jew, under the influence of his early education, which taught him to regard Jesus as an enthusiast or even as an impostor. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
Answer [α π ο λ ο γ η σ η σ θ ε]. See on 1 Peter 3:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
Made [κ α τ ε σ τ η σ ε ν]. Appointed or constituted.... [ Continue Reading ]
Beware of [φ υ λ α σ σ ε σ θ ε α π ο]. Lit., guard yourselves from.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bestow [σ υ ν α ξ ω]. Lit., gather together.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fruits [γ ε ν η μ α τ α]. Some texts, however, read ton siton, my corn. So Rev.... [ Continue Reading ]
Soul [ψ υ χ η]. See on Mark 12:30. Take thine ease. See on Matthew 11:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fool [α φ ρ ω ν]. Senseless. In Xenophon's "Memorabilia," Socrates, addressing Aristodemus, says, "Which do you take to be the more worthy of admiration, those who make images without sense [α φ ρ ο ν α] or motion, or those who make intelligent and active creations?" (1, 4, 4). Sometimes, also, in t... [ Continue Reading ]
Take no thought. See on Matthew 6:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
Consider. See on Matthew 7:3. Storehouse [τ α μ ε ι ο ν]. See on ver. 3.... [ Continue Reading ]
Stature [η λ ι κ ι α ν]. The original meaning of the word is time of life, age. So, commonly, in classical Greek. See, also, John 9:21; John 9:23; Hebrews 11:11. The other meaning, stature, also occurs. Herodotus speaks of one who was of the same height [η λ ι κ ι η ν] with another (iii. 16). But bo... [ Continue Reading ]
How they grow. Some texts omit they grow, and read how they toil not, etc. Toil - spin [κ ο π ι α ν η θ ε ι]. Some read, instead of toil, uJfainei, weave.... [ Continue Reading ]
Which is today in the field. Construe in the field with the grass; and render is absolutely : exists, lives. So Rev., the grass in the field which today is. Oven [κ λ ι β α ν ο ν]. Strictly, a covered earthen vessel, wider at bottom than at top, in which bread was baked by putting hot embers round... [ Continue Reading ]
Be ye of doubtful mind [μ ε τ ε ω ρ ι ζ ε σ θ ε]. Only here in New Testament. The verb primarily means to raise to a height; buoy up, as with false hopes; and so to unsettle, or excite, or keep in fluctuation. Thus Thucydides says of the war between Athens and Sparta : "All Hellas was excited [μ ε τ... [ Continue Reading ]
Bags [β α λ λ α ν τ ι α]. From ballw, to throw. Something into which money and other things are cast. Rev., purses. See on ch. Luke 10:4. Wyc., satchels. Moth. Compare James 5:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall return [α ν α λ υ σ η]. The verb means, originally, to unloose : so of vessels, to unloose their moorings and go to sea. Of departing generally. This is its sense in the only other passage where it occurs, Philippians 1:23, "having a desire to depart, or break up; the metaphor being drawn from... [ Continue Reading ]
Watching. See on Mark 13:35. Gird himself. As a servant girding up his loose garments to wait on the table. Serve. See on minister, Matthew 20:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Second watch. See on Mark 13:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
What hour [π ο ι α ω ρ α]. See on Matthew 24:42. Would come. Lit., cometh. See on Matthew 24:43. Broken through. See on Matthew 6:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
That faithful and wise steward. Lit., that faithful steward, the wise man. Household [θ ε ρ α π ε ι α ς]. From its original meaning of waiting on, attendance (Luke 9:11), it comes to mean the retinue of attendants; the body of household servants. Portion of meat [σ ι τ ο μ ε τ ρ ι ο ν]. Lit., meas... [ Continue Reading ]
Delayeth. The emphatic word, since the thought of the lord's delay and of the postponement of the reckoning is uppermost in the servant's thought.... [ Continue Reading ]
Unbelievers [α π ι σ τ ω ν]. Much better as Rev., the unfaithful; for it is of fidelity, not of faith, that Christ is speaking. Wyc., unfaithful men.... [ Continue Reading ]
Stripes. See on ch. Luke 10:30. Commit. See on set before, ch. 9 16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fire. A spiritual impulse which shall result in the divisions described in the following verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
Am I straitened. See on ch. Luke 4:38, and compare 2 Corinthians 5:14; Philippians 1:23. Wyc., constrained.... [ Continue Reading ]
The father shall be divided, etc. But the verb is in the plural. Rightly, as Rev., "They shall be divided, the father against the son," etc. Daughter - in - law. See on Matthew 10:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
A cloud. With the definite article, the cloud, which you so often see. There cometh a shower. Or, a shower is coming. See on James 5:7. It is [γ ι ν ε τ α ι]. Better, as Rev., it cometh to pass.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heat [κ α υ σ ω ν]. See on James 1:10; Matthew 20:12. Discern [δ ο κ ι μ α ζ ε ι ν]. See on trial and tried, 1 Peter 1:7. It means here test or prove. You can test and prove the weather by your signs; but you cannot apply the proof which lies in the signs of the times. Rev., interpret, gives the id... [ Continue Reading ]
Of yourselves. In the exercise of your ordinary habits of observation which you apply to the heavens.... [ Continue Reading ]
When thou goest [ω ς γ α ρ υ π α γ ε ι ς]. The A. V. does not translate gar, for. Rev., correctly, for as thou art going. Their own judgment should show them the necessity of repentance toward God; and this duty is urged under the figure of a debtor who meets his creditor in the way, and whose best... [ Continue Reading ]