Mark 5:23

θυγάτριόν μ.: an instance of Mk.'s love of diminutives, again in Mark 7:25. ἐσχάτως ἔχει, is extremely ill, at death's door (in Mt. dead), stronger than κακῶς ἔχει; a late Greek phrase (examples in Elsner, Wetstein, Kypke, etc.), disapproved by Phryn. (Lobeck, p. 389). ἵνα ἐλθὼν ἐπιθῇς : either used as an imperative (cf. 1 Timothy 1:3, ἵνα παραγγείλῃς), or dependent on some verb understood, e.g., δεόμαί σου (Palairet), ἥκω (Fritzsche); better παρακαλῶ σε, the echo of παρεκάλει going before (Grotius. Similarly Euthy. Zig.).