rwp - despising

rwp@Hebrews:13:13 @{Let us therefore go forth to him} (\toinun exerchmetha pros auton\). Inferential particle (\toi, nun\), usually post-positive (Luke:20:25; strkjv@1Corinthians:9:26|) only N.T. examples. Present middle volitive subjunctive of \exerchomai\. "Let us keep on going out there to him." If a separation has to come between Judaism and Christianity, let us give up Judaism, and go out to Christ "outside the camp" and take our stand with him there on Golgotha, "bearing his reproach (\ton oneidismon autou pherontes\)...himself endured the Cross despising the...(12:2|) and as Moses accepted "the reproach of the Messiah" (11:26|) in his day. The only decent place for the follower of Christ is beside the Cross of Christ with the reproach and the power (Romans:8:1f.|) in it. This is the great passionate plea of the whole Epistle.

rwp@Mark:14:33 @{Greatly amazed and sore troubled} (\ekthambeisthai kai admonein\). strkjv@Matthew:26:37| has "sorrowful and sore troubled." See on Matt. about \admonein\. Mark alone uses \exthambeisthai\ (here and in strkjv@9:15|). There is a papyrus example given by Moulton and Milligan's _Vocabulary_. The verb \thambe\ occurs in strkjv@Mark:10:32|...can endure the loss, despising the...(Swete). "He learned from what he suffered," (Hebrews:5:8|) and this new experience enriched the human soul of Jesus.

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