3:5 distressed (c-8) The Greek word is found here only. It is questioned whether it means 'sympathizing grief' (as LXX, Psalms 69:20 ;) or 'deep grief.' There is, I apprehend, sorrow for, with an intensive force in it; not sympathy, which is feeling with, but feeling what a state they were in, with grief for it.

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