Mark 10:22

στυγνάσας … λυπούμενος. Cf. Genesis 4:5. All three record the grief, but Mk alone has στυγνάσας, for which Mt. and Lk. have ἀκούσας. He was gloomy and sullen with a double disappointment; no perilous exploit was required of him, but he was asked to part with what he valued most. With a lowering look (Matthew 16:3), instead of coming to follow Christ (Mark 1:18; Mark 1:20; Mark 2:14), he turned away, deeply pained (note the participles). This is the sorrow of the world which leads to death, τῆς φιλαργυρίας ἡ ἄκανθα τὴν λιπαρὰν ἄρουραν τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ διελυμήνατο (Euthym.). Στυγνός is freq. in tragedians, but rare in prose; στυγνἀζω is rare everywhere. On the Τίς ὁ σωζόμενος πλούσιος of Clem. Alex., which is apparently a popular address on this incident, see D. of Chr. Biog. I. p. 565; Swete, Patristic Study, p. 49.