NT-GOSPEL.filter - rwp Matthew:21:13:

rwp@Hebrews:11:38 @{Of whom the world was not worthy} (\hn ouk n axios ho kosmos\) Graphic picture in a short parenthetical relative clause (\hn\, genitive plural with \axios\), a phrase to stir the blood of the readers. {Wandering} (\planmenoi\). Present middle participle of \plana\, like lost sheep, hunted by wolves. {Caves} (\splaiois\). Old word from \speos\ (cavern) as in strkjv@Matthew:21:13|. {Holes} (\opais\). Old word, perhaps from \ops\ (root of \hora\, to see), opening, in N.T. only here and strkjv@James:3:11|. Cf. strkjv@1Kings:18:4|; II Macc. strkjv@5:27; strkjv@10:6 (about Judas Maccabeus and others).

rwp@John:11:38 @{Again groaning in himself} (\palin embrimmenos en heauti\). Direct reference to the use of this same word (present middle participle here) in verse 33|, only with \en heauti\ (in himself) rather than \ti pneumati\ (in his spirit), practically the same idea. The speculation concerning his power stirred the depths of his nature again. {Cometh to the tomb} (\erchetai eis to mnmeion\). Vivid historical present. {A cave} (\splaion\). Old word (from \speos\, cavern). Cf. strkjv@Matthew:21:13|. {Lay against it} (\epekeito ep' auti\). Imperfect middle of \epikeimai\, old verb to lie upon as in strkjv@21:9| and figuratively (1Corinthians:9:16|). Note repetition of \epi\ with locative case. The use of a cave for burial was common (Genesis:23:19|). Either the body was let down through a horizontal opening (hardly so here) or put in a tomb cut in the face of the rock (if so, \epi\ can mean "against"). The stones were used to keep away wild animals from the bodies.

rwp@Matthew:21:13 @{A den of robbers} (\splaion listn\). By charging exorbitant prices.

rwp@Revelation:6:15 @{The princes} (\hoi megistnes\). Late word from the superlative \megistos\, in LXX, Josephus, papyri, in N.T. only in strkjv@Mark:6:21; strkjv@Revelation:6:15; strkjv@18:23|, for the grandees, the persecuting proconsuls (Swete). {The chief captains} (\hoi chiliarchoi\). The commanders of thousands, the military tribunes (Mark:6:21; strkjv@19:18|). {The rich} (\hoi plousioi\). Not merely those in civil and military authority will be terror-stricken, but the self-satisfied and complacent rich (James:5:4f.|). {The strong} (\hoi ischuroi\). Who usually scoff at fear. See the list in strkjv@13:16; strkjv@19:18|. Cf. strkjv@Luke:21:26|. {Every bondman} (\ps doulos\) {and freeman} (\kai eleutheros\). The two extremes of society. {Hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains} (\ekrupsan heautous eis ta splaia kai eis tas petras tn oren\). Based on strkjv@Isaiah:2:10,18f|. First aorist active indicative of \krupt\ with the reflexive pronoun. For the old word \splaion\ see strkjv@Matthew:21:13; strkjv@Hebrews:11:38|. \Oren\ is the uncontracted Ionic form (for \orn\) of the genitive plural of \oros\ (mountain).