Article April 3, 1937 Issue

Bible Notes

"Jesus straitly charged them" (Matt. 9:30)—In this context the somewhat uncommon verb rendered "straitly to charge" seems to mean "to charge with earnest admonition; sternly to charge" (Thayer: Greek Lexicon, p. 207) or "to admonish sternly" (Abbott-Smith: Greek Lexicon, p. 148). Goodspeed has: "Jesus warned them sternly;" Weymouth (5th edition): "Assuming a stern tone, Jesus said to them;" and Moffatt: "Jesus sternly charged them."

"He was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad" (Matt. 9:36)—The term translated "fainted" comes from a verb meaning "to trouble oneself" (Thayer: op. cit., p. 580) or "to be harassed"; while the term rendered "scattered abroad" is literally "thrown down," and so "prostrated by hunger, fatigue, etc." (ibid., p. 563). Hence we find: "They were distracted and dejected" (Weymouth); "distressed and harassed" (Twentieth Century New Testament); "harassed and dejected" (Moffatt).

"We are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held" (Rom. 7:6)—A more literal rendering is, "having died to that wherein we were held" (compare the Revised Version). Moffatt translates: "We are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us;" and Goodspeed: "The Law no longer applies to us."

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