Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Luke: Chapter 7]
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7:1 {After} (\epeid•, epei and d•\). This conjunction was written
\epei d•\ in Homer and is simple \epei\ with the intensive \d•\
added and even \epei d• per\ once in N.T. (Lu 1:1). This is the
only instance of the temporal use of \epeid•\ in the N.T. The
causal sense occurs only in Luke and Paul, for \epei\ is the
correct text in Mt 21:46. {Had ended} (\epl•r•sen\). First
aorist active indicative. There is here a reference to the
conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount, but with nothing
concerning the impression produced by the discourse such as is
seen in Mt 7:28. This verse really belongs as the conclusion of
Chapter 6, not as the beginning of Chapter 7. {In the ears of the
people} (\eis tas akoas tou laou\). \Ako•\ from \akou•\, to hear,
is used of the sense of hearing (1Co 12:17), the ear with which
one hears (Mr 7:35; Heb 5:11), the thing heard or the report
(Rom 10:16) or oral instruction (Ga 3:2,5). Both Mt 8:5-13;
Lu 7:1-10 locate the healing of the centurion's servant in
Capernaum where Jesus was after the Sermon on the Mount.
7:2 {Centurion's servant} (\Hekatontarchou tinos doulos\). Slave
of a certain centurion (Latin word \centurio\, commander of a
century or hundred). Mr 15:39,44 has the Latin word in Greek
letters, \kenturi•n\. The centurion commanded a company which
varied from fifty to a hundred. Each cohort had six centuries.
Each legion had ten cohorts or bands (Ac 10:1). The centurions
mentioned in the N.T. all seem to be fine men as Polybius states
that the best men in the army had this position. See also Lu
23:47. The Greek has two forms of the word, both from \hekaton\,
hundred, and \arch•\, to rule, and they appear to be used
interchangeably. So we have \hekatontarchos\; here, the form is
\-archos\, and \hekatontarch•s\, the form is \-arch•s\ in verse
6. The manuscripts differ about it in almost every instance.
The \-archos\ form is accepted by Westcott and Hort only in the
nominative save the genitive singular here in Lu 7:2 and the
accusative singular in Ac 22:25. See like variation between
them in Mt 8:5,8 (\-archos\) and Mt 8:13 (\arch•i\). So also
\-archon\ (Ac 22:25) and \-arch•s\ (Ac 22:26). {Dear to him}
(\aut•i entimos\). Held in honour, prized, precious, dear (Lu
14:8; 1Pe 2:4; Php 2:29), common Greek word. Even though a slave
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Word Pictures in the New Testament
(Luke: Chapter 7)