{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/mar006.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/mar006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/mar006.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nAstonished\nSee on Mat 7:28.\nMighty works (\u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2)\nLit., powers. See on Mat 11:20. Tynd., virtues. Outcomings of God's power: \"powers of the world to come\" (Heb 6:5), at work upon the earth.\nThe carpenter\nThis word \"throws the only flash which falls on the continuous tenor of the first thirty years, from infancy to manhood, of the life of Christ\" (Farrar, \"Messages of the Books\").\nThey were offended\nSee on Mat 5:29. Tynd., hurt.\nSick (\u1f00\u1fe4\u1fe5\u03ce\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2)\nFrom \u1f00, not, and \u1fe5\u03ce\u03bd\u03bd\u03c5\u03bc\u03b9, to strengthen. Sickness regarded as constitutional weakness.\nBy two and two\nTo help and encourage each other, and also for fulness of testimony.\nWas spread abroad\n\"But for the rumor, Herod would not have known of him. A palace is late in hearing spiritual news\" (Bengel).\nMighty works do show forth themselves in him (\u1f10\u03bd\u03b5\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd \u03b1\u1f31 \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u1f10\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff7)\nRev., these powers work in him. As Dr. Morison observes, \"A snatch of Herod's theology and philosophy.\" He knew that John wrought no miracles when alive, but he thought that death had put him into connection with the unseen world, and enabled him to wield its powers.\nHe is risen\nThe he, \u03bf\u1f57\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, is emphatic. This one. This very John.\nHad a quarrel against him (\u1f10\u03bd\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c7\u03b5\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff7)\nThere is some dispute about the rendering. The Rev. renders Set herself against him, with no alternative translation in the margin; and in Luk 11:53, Press upon him vehemently, with set themselves against him in the margin. I see no objection to rendering was angry at him, taking \u1f10\u03bd\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c7\u03b5\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff7 with an ellipsis of \u03c7\u03cc\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd, anger. Very literally, had within herself (\u1f10\u03bd) anger against him. So Herodotus, 1:118. Astyages concealing the anger (\u03c4\u03cc\u03bd \u03c7\u03cc\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd) which he felt toward him (\u03bf\u1f31 \u1f10\u03bd\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c7\u03b5). 6:119, \u1f10\u03bd\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c7\u03b5 \u03c3\u03c6\u1fd6 \u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u1f78\u03bd \u03c7\u03cc\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd, nourished a fierce anger against them. So Moulton, Grimm, and De Wette.\nDesired (\u1f24\u03b8\u03b5\u03bb\u03b5\u03bd)\nImperfect tense, was desiring all along. Her demand for John's murder was the result of a long-cherished wish.\nObserved him (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9)\nA mistranslation. Rev., kept him safe. Peculiar to Mark. Compare Mat 9:17, are preserved; Luk 2:19, kept ; \u03c3\u03cd\u03bd, closely; \u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd, to preserve or keep, as the result of guarding. See on Joh 17:12, and reserved, Pe1 1:4.\nDid many things (\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u1f70 \u1f10\u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03b5\u03b9)\nThe proper reading, however \u1f20\u03c0\u03cc\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9; from \u1f00, not, and \u03c0\u03cc\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2, a passage. Hence, strictly, to be in circumstances where one cannot find a way out. So Rev., rightly, he was much perplexed. The other reading is meaningless.\nConvenient (\u03b5\u1f50\u03ba\u03b1\u03af\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd)\nMark only. Convenient for Herodias' purpose. \"Opportune for the insidious woman, who hoped, through wine, lust, and the concurrence of sycophants, to be able easily to overcome the wavering mind of her husband\" (Grotius in Meyer).\nBirthday\nSee on Mat 14:6. The notice of the banquet and of the rank of the guests is peculiar to Mark.\nLords (\u03bc\u03b5\u03b3\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u1fb6\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd)\nOnly here, and Rev 6:15; Rev 18:23. A late word, from \u03bc\u03ad\u03b3\u03b1\u03c2, great.\nHigh captains (\u03c7\u03b9\u03bb\u03b9\u03ac\u03c1\u03c7\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2)\nLit., commanders of a thousand men. Answering to a Roman military tribune. Both civil and military dignitaries were present, with other distinguished men of the district (chief men).\nThe said Herodias (\u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f29\u03c1\u03c9\u03b4\u03b9\u03ac\u03b4\u03bf\u03c2)\nThe A. V. misses the point of \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2, by the translation the said: the object being not to particularize the Herodias just referred to, but to emphasize the fact that Herodias' own daughter was put forward instead of a professional dancer. Hence Rev., correctly, \"the daughter of Herodias herself.\"\nDamsel (\u03ba\u03bf\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03af\u1ff3)\nSee on Mar 5:41.\nMark's narrative emphasizes the eager haste with which the murder was pushed. She came in straightway and demanded the boon forthwith.\nBy and by (\u1f10\u03be\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2)\nObsolete in the old sense of immediately. The A. V. translates \u03b1\u1f50\u03b8\u1f7a\u03c2, straightway, in Mat 13:21, by and by: \u03b5\u1f50\u03b8\u03ad\u03c9\u03c2, Mar 4:17, immediately: and the same word in Luk 21:9, by and by. \u1f18\u03be\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 is rendered immediately, Act 10:33; Act 11:11 : straightway, Act 23:30 : presently, Phi 2:23. Rev., forthwith. The expression by and by in older English was sometimes used of place. Thus Chaucer.\n\"Right in the same chamber by and by\" (close by).\nand\n\"Two young knights lying by and by\" (near together).\nEdward IV. is reported to have said on his death-bed: \"I wote (know) not whether any preacher's words ought more to move you than I that is going by and by to the place that they all preach of.\"\nCharger\nSee on Mat 14:8.\nExceeding sorry\nWhere Matthew has sorry.\nMark's favorite straightway. The king is prompt in his response.\nExecutioner (\u03c3\u03c0\u03b5\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03ac\u03c4\u03bf\u03c1\u03b1)\nOne of Mark's Latin words, speculator. A speculator was a guardsman, whose business it was to watch or spy out (speculari). It came gradually to denote one of the armed body-guard of the Roman emperor. Thus Suetonius says of Claudius that he did not dare to attend banquets unless his speculatores with their lances surrounded him. Seneca uses the word in the sense of executioner. \"He met the executioners (speculatoribus), declared that he had nothing to say against the execution of the sentence, and then stretched out his neck.\" Herod imitated the manners of the Roman court, and was attended by a company of speculatores, though it was not their distinctive office to act as executioners. Wyc. renders man-killer, and Tynd. hangman.\nCorpse\nSee on Mat 24:28.\nStier (\"Words of Jesus\") says of Herod' \"This man, whose inner life was burnt out; who was made up of contradictions, speaking of his kingdom like Ahasuerus, and yet the slave of his Jezebel; willingly hearing the prophet, and unwillingly killing him; who will be a Sadducee, and yet thinks of a resurrection; who has a superstitious fear of the Lord Jesus, and yet a curiosity to see him.\"\nCome apart\nSee on Mar 3:7.\nShall we go and buy, etc\nThis question and Christ's answer are peculiar to Mark.\nBy companies (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bc\u03c0\u03cc\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bc\u03c0\u03cc\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1)\nPeculiar to Mark. The Jewish dining-room was arranged like the Roman: three tables forming three sides of a square, and with divans or couches following the outside line of the tables. The open end of the square admitted the servants who waited at table. This explains the arrangement of the multitude here described by Mark. The people sat down, literally, in table-companies, arranged like guests at table; some companies of a hundred and some of fifty, in squares or oblongs open at one end, so that the disciples could pass along the inside and distribute the loaves\nGreen\nMark only.\nIn ranks (\u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u1f76 \u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u1f76)\nLit., like beds in a garden. The former adverb, by companies, describes the arrangement; this the color. The red, blue, and yellow clothing of the poorest orientals makes an Eastern crowd full of color; a fact which would appeal to Peter's eye, suggesting the appearance of flower-beds in a garden.\nBrake and gave (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ad\u03ba\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd, \u1f10\u03b4\u03af\u03b4\u03bf\u03c5)\nThe verbs are in different tenses; the former in the aorist, the latter in the imperfect. The aorist implies the instantaneous, the imperfect the continuous act. He brake, and kept giving out. Farrar remarks that the multiplication evidently took place in Christ's hands, between the acts of breaking and distributing.\nAll\nPeculiar to Mark.\nWere filled\nSee on Mat 5:6.\nBaskets full (\u03ba\u03bf\u03c6\u03af\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd \u03c0\u03bb\u03b7\u03c1\u03ce\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1)\nLit., fillings of baskets. See on Mat 14:20. Mark alone adds, and of the fishes.\nMen (\u1f04\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2)\nNot generic, including men and women; but literally men. Compare Mat 14:21, beside women and children; a detail which we should have expected from Mark.\nWhen he had sent them away (\u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03c4\u03ac\u03be\u03b1\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2)\nRev., more correctly, after he had taken leave. Unclassical, and used in this sense only in later Greek. So in Luk 9:61; Act 18:18; Co2 2:13.\nHe saw (\u1f30\u03b4\u1f7c\u03bd)\nParticiple. Rev., seeing. Better, however, the literal having seen. It was this which induced him to go to them.\nToiling (\u03b2\u03b1\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd\u03b9\u03b6\u03bf\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2)\nLit., tormented. Rev., distressed See on Mat 4:24. Wyc., travailing. Tynd., troubles\nFourth watch\nBetween 3 and 6 a.m.\nWould have passed by them.\nThey all saw him\nSpake with them (\u1f10\u03bb\u03ac\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4' \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd)\nBoth Matthew and John give the simple dative, \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2, to them. Mark's with them is more familiar, and gives the idea of a more friendly and encouraging address. It is significant, in view of Peter's relation to this gospel, that Mark omits the incident of Peter's walk on the waves (Mat 14:28-31).\nCeased\nSee on Mar 4:39.\nSore amazed (\u03bb\u03af\u03b1\u03bd \u1f10\u03ba \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c3\u03bf\u1fe6 \u1f10\u03be\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf)\nLit., exceedingly beyond measure. A strong expression peculiar to Mark. \u1f18\u03be\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf, were amazed. Compare the cognate noun \u1f14\u03ba\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2, and see on Mar 5:42.\nThe miracle of the loaves (\u1f10\u03c0\u1f76 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u1f04\u03c1\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2)\nRev., concerning the loaves. Lit., upon ; in the matter of. They did not reason from the multiplying of the loaves to the stilling of the sea.\nDrew to the shore (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03c9\u03c1\u03bc\u03af\u03c3\u03b8\u03b7\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd)\nPeculiar to Mark. Rev., moored to the shore, though the meaning may be near the shore. \u1f08\u03bd\u03ad\u03b2\u03b7, he went up (Mar 6:51), seems to indicate a vessel of considerable size, standing quite high out of the water. They may have anchored off shore.\nRan round\nFrom place to place where the sick were, to bring them to Jesus. Matthew has they sent.\nCarry about (\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03c6\u03ad\u03c1\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd)\n\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03af, about; one hither and another thither, wherever Christ might be at the time.\nBeds (\u03ba\u03c1\u03b1\u03b2\u03ac\u03c4\u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2)\nCondemned as bad Greek, but used by both Luke and John. See on Mar 2:4.\nIn the streets (\u1f00\u03b3\u03bf\u03c1\u03b1\u1fd6\u03c2)\nRightly, Rev., market-places. See on Mat 11:16.\nBorder\nSee on Mat 9:20.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Mark: Mark Chapter 6","type":"page"}