σκόλοψ: Difference between revisions

|txtha=σκολοπος, ὁ, from Homer down, a [[pointed]] [[piece]] of [[wood]], a [[pale]], a [[stake]]: ἐδόθη μοι [[σκόλοψ]] τῇ σαρκί, a [[sharp]] [[stake]] (others [[say]] [[splinter]], A. V. [[thorn]]; cf. Babrius fab. 122,1. 10; others (to [[pierce]] my [[flesh]], appears to [[indicate]] [[some]] [[constant]] [[bodily]] [[ailment]] or [[infirmity]], [[which]], [[even]] [[when]] Paul had been caught up in a [[trance]] to the [[third]] [[heaven]], [[sternly]] admonished him [[that]] he [[still]] dwelt in a [[frail]] and [[mortal]] [[body]], Winer's Grammar, § 31,10 N. 3; Buttmann, § 133,27. On Paul's [[thorn]] in the [[flesh]] [[see]] Farrar, St. Paul, i. 652ff (Excursus x.); Lightfoot's Commentary on Galatians, p. 186ff; Schaff in his 'Popular Commentary' on Galatians, p. 331f.)