{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/mar008.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/mar008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/mar008.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nI have compassion (\u03c3\u03c0\u03bb\u03b1\u03b3\u03c7\u03bd\u03af\u03be\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9)\nA peculiar verb, from \u03c3\u03c0\u03bb\u03ac\u03b3\u03c7\u03bd\u03b1, the inward parts, especially the nobler entrails - the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys. These came gradually to denote the seat of the affections, like our word heart. This explains the frequent use of the word bowels in the A. V. in the sense of tender mercy, affection, compassion. See Luk 1:78; Co2 7:15; Phi 1:8; Plm 1:7, Plm 1:12, Plm 1:20. The Rev. has properly rejected it in every such case, using it only in its literal sense in the single passage, Act 1:18.\nThey have been with me (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd)\nLit., they continue, as Rev.\nFaint\nSee on Mat 15:32. Wyc., fail.\nSome of them came from far\nPeculiar to Mark.\nTo sit down (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03c0\u03b5\u03c3\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd)\nLit., to recline.\nBrake and gave\nSee on Mar 6:41.\nWere filled\nSee on Mat 5:6. Wyc., fulfilled. Tynd., sufficed.\nBaskets\nSee on Mat 14:20.\nFour thousand\nMatthew (Mat 15:38) here adds a detail which we should rather expect in Mark: beside women and children.\nWith his disciples\nBegan\nThe beginnings of things seem to have a peculiar interest for Mark. See Mar 1:1, Mar 1:45; Mar 4:1; Mar 5:17, Mar 5:20; Mar 6:2, Mar 6:7, Mar 6:34, Mar 6:55.\nSign (\u03c3\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bf\u03bd)\nSee on Mat 11:20. Wyc., token. As applied to the miracles of our Lord, this word emphasizes their ethical purport, as declaring that the miraculous act points back of itself to the grace and power or divine character or authority of the doer.\nSighed deeply in his spirit\nThere shall no sign be given (\u03b5\u1f30 \u03b4\u03bf\u03b8\u03ae\u03c3\u03b5\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bf\u03bd)\nLit., if a sign shall be given. The expression is elliptical. It is a Hebrew idiom, and is really, at bottom, a form of imprecation. If I do not thus or so, may some judgment overtake me. Compare Heb 3:11.\nThe one loaf is a detail given by Mark only.\nTook (\u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03bb\u03b1\u03b2\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2)\nTynd., caught.\nIf he saw (\u03b5\u1f34 \u03c4\u03b9 \u03b2\u03bb\u03ad\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2)\nRev., more accurately, renders the direct question: Seest thou aught ? The change of tenses is graphic. Asked (imperfect). Dost thou see (present).\nI see men as trees walking (following the reading, \u0392\u03bb\u03ad\u03c0\u03c9 \u03c4\u03bf\u1f7a\u03c2 \u1f00\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03ce\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u1f61\u03c2 \u03b4\u03ad\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2)\nThe Rev. reads, following the amended text, I see men, for (\u1f45\u03c4\u03b9) I behold (\u1f41\u03c1\u1ff6) them as trees, walking. He saw them dimly. They looked like trees, large and misshapen; but he knew they were men, for they were walking about.\nMade him look up\nThe best texts omit, and substitute \u03b4\u03b9\u03ad\u03b2\u03bb\u03b5\u03c8\u03b5\u03bd, he looked stedfastly. See on Mat 7:5. Instead of vaguely staring, he fixed his eyes on definite objects.\nHe saw (\u1f10\u03bd\u03ad\u03b2\u03bb\u03b5\u03c0\u03b5\u03bd)\nImperfect tense. Continuous action. He saw and continued to see. Compare the aorist tense above: He looked stedfastly, fastened his eyes, denoting the single act, the first exercise of his restored sight.\nEvery man\nFollowing the reading \u1f15\u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2. But the best texts read \u1f05\u03c0\u03b1\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1, all things. So Rev.\nClearly (\u03c4\u03b7\u03bb\u03b1\u03c5\u03b3\u1ff6\u03c2)\nFrom \u03c4\u1fc6\u03bb\u03b5, far, \u03b1\u1f50\u03b3\u03ae, shining. The farthest things were clearly seen.\nHe saith (\u1f10\u03c0\u03b7\u03c1\u03ce\u03c4\u03b1)\nMore correctly, he questioned or asked. So Rev. Mark omits the commendation of Peter. See Introduction.\nOn Mar 8:31-33, compare notes on Mat 16:21-28.\nHe spake the saying openly\nMark only. Not as a secret or mystery, as in his words about being lifted up, or building the temple in three days. Not ambiguously, but explicitly. Wyc., plainly.\nJesus now pauses; for what he has to say now is to be said to all who follow him. Hence he calls the multitude with his disciples. Peculiar to Mark.\nWill (\u03b8\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9)\nRev., would. See on Mat 1:19. It is more than is wishful.\nHis cross\nThe pronoun \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6, his, is in an emphatic position.\nAnd the gospel's\nGain - lose\nSee on Mat 16:26.\nMy words\nBengel remarks that one may confess Christ in general and yet be ashamed of this or that saying.\nIn this adulterous and sinful generation","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Mark: Mark Chapter 8","type":"page"}