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§ LVi.] THE MEDICAL LANGUAGE OF ST. LUKE. 85
X. 5 (x. 687) : wo-tteo Kal lirl dIc civOpwrrov rijc ap^aij.tvr]g
TTvofTTeiv St' aypvTTviav Kal Xv-ijv. Gralen. Comm. iv. 97,
Morb. Acut. (xv. 908) : uypv-n-rla, Ov/iio], Xvnai, (pofioi.
The medical language employed affords internal evidence
of the authenticity of verses 43, 44 of Luke xxii., which
are omitted in
some mss.
The foregoing examples have been selected
and placed
together because in their case there is an opportunity of comparing
the language of St. Luke with that
used in parallel
passages by the otlier Evangelists. They do not embrace
some of the most remarkable instances of St. Luke's use of
medical language outside of medical subjects. They would
be, however, sufficient of themselves to show that there is,
independent of the professional language employed in relating
the miracles of healing, a class of words running through
the Grospel of St. Luke which does not occur in the other New
Testament writings, but which is in common use in Grreek
medical language.
The remainder of this part will be occupied with the
examination of other similar words in St. Luke's Gospel and
the Acts of the Apostles, which occur in passages where we
cannot make a comparison with parallel passages in the
writings of other New Testament authors. Some of these
words stand out prominently as those of a physician, e. g.
upy(a\ odoviiQ (Acts, X. 11) ; araAij^tc (Luke, ix. 51) ; aTro-
KardcTTatjig (Acts, iii. 21) ; Xfipog (Luke, xxiv. 11) ; liraKpoaaOm
(Acts, xvi. 25) ; elg jiiaviav irepirpiTren' (Acts, xxvi.
24), &c. ; while with regard to the others, they readily fall
into the same category as 7r\i)fjfxvpa, prp/na, avp.TriTmiv,
Tpt]fxa, /^fXoyrjCi Trpocrxpaveiv, (5aT0Q, &c., in the case of which
we had an opportunity of comparing the language of the
other Evangelists, and it will be shown that almost all of them
were words commonly em-ployed in the phraseology of a Greelphi/sician.