OT-POET.filter - rwp seventh:

rwp@John:4:52 @{Inquired} (\eputheto\). Second aorist middle indicative of \punthanomai\. {Began to mend} (\kompsoteron eschen\). Second aorist ingressive active indicative of \ech\ (took a turn, got better) and comparative of adverb \kompss\. Arrian (_Epictetus iii. 10.13) has \kompss echeis\ from a physician, "Thou hast it fine," "Thou art doing finely." The papyri give several similar examples. \Kompss\ (neat) is from \kome\, to take care of. {At the seventh hour} (\hran hebdomn\). The accusative case without a preposition as in strkjv@Revelation:3:3|, though we have \peri hran enatn\ (about the ninth hour) in strkjv@Acts:10:3|. See the accusative also in strkjv@Exodus:9:18| \tautn tn hran aurion\ (tomorrow about this hour). The accusative has the notion of extension and can be thus loosely used. It can even mean here "during the seventh hour." In verse 53| the locative is more exact, "at that hour" (\en ekeini ti hri\). The seventh hour would be (Roman time) seven P.M.

rwp@Matthew:23:29 @{The tombs of the prophets} (\tous taphous tn prophtn\). Cf. strkjv@Luke:11:48-52|. They were bearing witness against themselves (\heautois\, verse 31|) to "the murder-taint in your blood" (Allen). "These men who professed to be so distressed at the murdering of the Prophets, were themselves compassing the death of Him who was far greater than any Prophet" (Plummer). There are four monuments called Tombs of the Prophets (Zechariah, Absalom, Jehoshaphat, St. James) at the base of the Mount of Olives. Some of these may have been going up at the very time that Jesus spoke. In this seventh and last woe Jesus addresses the Jewish nation and not merely the Pharisees.

rwp@Matthew:24:31 @{With a great sound of a trumpet} (\meta salpiggos phns megals\). Some MSS. omit (\phns\) "sound." The trumpet was the signal employed to call the hosts of Israel to march as to war and is common in prophetic imagery (Isaiah:27:13|). Cf. the seventh angel (Revelation:11:15|). Clearly "the coming of the son of man is not to be identified with the judgment of Jerusalem but rather forms its preternatural background" (Bruce).