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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt:...the LXX have Kox eirara£e (Zedekias) rbv Mixalav eirl Ttjv o-iayova, Josephus (Ant. VII. 15, 4) puts these words into the mouth of Zedekias before striking him: "If he be a true prophet, evOvs pamo-Oels iir ip..ov fiaAfraru p.ov T7)" xelPa, as Jeroboam's hand was dried up, when he put it forth against the man of God that came out of Judah."--When pcnri(eiv had acquired this meaning instead of the older one of pafiol(eiv, to strike with a rod, it is highly improbable that it would continue to be used in that older sense; of which I doubt if any clear instance can be found later than Herodotus. Schleusner, indeed, refers (for this sense) to Diog. Laert. IX. 1, and Plut. Vit. Themist. XI., both moderns; but the latter is an anecdote quoted from Herodotus, and the former a saying of Heraclitus, who flourished Olymp. LX1X. Another instance quoted is Diog. Laert. VIII. 36: travo-ai, p.t)be pairi(e (said of beating a dog); but this is from the elegiacs of Xenophanes, another old writer. Lastly, a fragment of Anacreon, pepa.irio-p.iva vdra, is quoted by the Scholiast on Hom. Od. Z. 59. So that in this sense pairi&iv would appear to be an archaic form of pafibl(eiv, connected with the Homeric xpvo-oppams, an epithet of Hermes1. XVIII. 28: airb rot) Ka'iapa, " from Caiaphas." Rather, "from the house of 1 I have since found in Anton. Lib. XXIII: an older author (as Hesiod, whose work 'Hofai 'EpIiijt St... ippdmoev airliv Tjj fid0ty, nal pt-ptynai is mentioned in the title of the rifSaev is irirpov; but it may be taken from Chapter)., Caiaphas." So Mark v. 35: airb rov apxio-vvaydyov, "from the ruler of the synagogue's house." Acts xvi. 40: els Ttjv AvUav, "into the house o/Tiydia." XIX. 12: avrieyei Tw Ka...