Te, pens 3 3 a _ by the Rev. Charles H. Gilbert What diverse and yet fascinating subjects clamor for attention when you begin to examine one word in a given sentence! Sometimes you are led into a maze of related ideas when all you were looking for was “single, simple meaning! This sort of thing is happening with me over and over again in my hobby of trying to read the Greek New Testament. For instance, I was reading again that story in the Book of Acts, Chapter 3, of the healing of the cripple at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple. Read it for yourselves again in whatever language you have handy! The author of this book is Luke, the writer also of the gospel bearing his name. We know from references in Paul’s writings that Luke was a physician. That may account for the fact that in this story the detail about this cripple’s ‘‘feet and ankle bones’ are expressly noted. When I read Greek I have to look up in a Greek and English dictionary, (called usually a lexicon) for I have never been good at remembering the meanings of words after I have looked them up! So language study with me is a slow process due to my having to look up again and again words in the lexicon or dictionary. Due to the fact that I already knew this story pretty well without looking up works, nevertheless I wanted to see for myself the word which should mean ankle, in Greek is “sphydra.” (My typewriter has language and so I have to give you the English equivalent which spells the word I have just written for you.) Now I wondered just what the lexicon would say about this word for ankle or ankle-bones. farther'than Thad intended to go” justion reading this story about the: man who was lame in his ankles. In the lexicon, both in my new Analytical Greek Lexicon bought new last year and in my tattered old Thayer's Lexicon I got long ago second hand, there I found not the word spelled “‘sphydra’ but another word sphyra (without d), ob- viously meant to be the same thing for the Bible reference using this word, is given as Acts 3:7. And the meaning is ankle or ankle-bones. For good measure the lexicons give the Latin name too-malleoli. This sounded like a medical term indeed. I intend to ask my own “ankle doctor’ in Pittston, Dr. Gelb, about that word. But the other day a new. member of the staff at General Hospital, Dr. Robert Morris, a radiologist was visiting our house, and I asked him. (Our family has known this man for over 30 years, for he was the son of a guest minister of our churches and we met him as a young boy and thought a great deal of him. And now he is living in our Back Mountain section and we are renewing our acquaintance of the years.) So when I told this guest of ours a few days ago of my interest in this Greek work “sphydra’’ with the Latin name “malleoli’” : (which means “hammef”’), our friend put his own foot across his knee and pointed out to us that the malleoli are the little nubs of bone on each side of the ankle. Anyway, that is the part the cripple felt the new strength come to him, so when Peter took him by the hand and pulled him up the story says he walked and leaped and praised God. He was all well! And went along jumping and probably shouting Hallelujah which is the Hebrew word meaning ‘‘praise the Lord!” And that was what Mrs. Nik Fritz and daughter, Heather, of Emmaus, spent last Fritz and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gay. Sympathy of the community is extended to the families of Lawrence Belles and Ruth Auvil, who both passed away during the week. Clayton Keiper returned from but will be confined to his bed for some time. He and Mrs. Keiper had as their guests over the weekend their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. GEBorge Hettiger, Montrose. Coas¥ Guard Academy The deadline for applying for an appointment to the Coast Guard Academy has been listed Mrs. George Hettiger enter- .. tained at a party at the home of Mrs. Paul Keiper Saturday. Gilbert Boston is a patient in the General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. John Hansen, John Jr., Debbie and Steven of Canandagua, N.Y., spent the weekend with her father, Edgar Engleman, who returned home with them for two weeks. Larry Harris, Harveys Lake, became a member of the Lutheran Church at the morn- ing service Sunday. Fred and Francis Schenk and son Keith and Earl Richards, spent Saturday on a hunting trip to Westfield, where they visited at the home of Cecil Schenek. Mr. and Mrs. William Mason, Endwell, N.Y., called on Mrs. Joseph Hackling and son Carl Sunday. 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Incidentally, when our friend Morris was talking with us about this case in the book of Acts he raised a question 1 was not equipped to answer; he wondered if there might be some books which have been written on the subject of medical points of interest from the modern medical viewpoint in the Bible. I am sure there must be some books like that. It might be a good study for me to hunt up the titles of some of them and tell him about them. All this led wus into a discussion of some [of the psychosomatic implications of some of the stories, for in- stance, in the New Testament. Of course I told him of my ex- perience long ago with lichen planus, a skin disease which tormented me when I first came to Carverton from Meshoppen. That turned out to be an example of psychomatic disease which eventually was traceable to a worry condition on my part. And it so happened that this present radiologist’s father was instrumental is helping me overcome the root of it. Now do you wonder how I could begin all this matter of wandering from one little word I had first begun to look up in the lexicon? It does lead places! Now I want to tell you what really has bothered me about this particular word ‘‘sphydra,” and I am not through with the word yet, but I have written to the Oxford University Press for some explanation why when 1 began looking up the word “sphydra’’ I found a word almost like it only without the “d” init, ‘‘sphyra” which is the word I found in the lexicon, and not ‘‘sphydra’’ at all. All three different Greek texts I have for the New Testament have that same word, always spelled with the ““d” in it. Why doesn’t my lexicons have the exact spelling of the word as I have it in my the three Greek manuscripts at my - disposal? Somebody will probably ask if I ever got a reply to that question! But with all my looking and wondering I learned a little \ by Thayer I did read that there “are 5420 Greek words in the Greek New Testament.” And in most of the articles in the lexicon have an asterisk at the close of the article indicating all the references to the given word. Such a situation makes this old worn-out volume not only a lexicon but also a con- cordance. This old boy did a thorough job when he made up this lexicon, but too good a job for it last forever! By the way, it is interesting to note that the Latin word malleoli for the ankle bones has the root in it of our common English word “mallet.” And in the English dictionary there is a picture of a mallet alongside of And wandering clear away from that page and that subject I ran across a Latin phrase Photo by Alex Rebar Photo by Alex Rebar Aspirin Found Before Surgical It may be appropriate to kiss and tell, but to take aspirin and not tell your physician can be dangerous under special cir- cumstances. The special circumstances include surgery where even small amounts of aspirin taken up to a week before can reduce the body’s ability to control dangerous bleeding. At a recent Pennsylvania Medical Society scientific assembly for physicians, a surgeon told of a number of cases in which surgical patients forgot to tell that they had taken aspirin and then faced major bleeding crises in the aftermath of the operations. Physicians stress that aspirin is an effective and safe medication for many conditions such as arthritis and the relief of simple pain. But aspirin is used so frequently by almost everyone that people forget that it is a medication and fail to mention it when physicians ask them about medications they are taking. ; Many physicians now are asking specific questions about Sa] Jordan, pastor. Procedure surgical procedure. Aspirin has an adverse effect on this ability that may not be apparent at the time of surgery itself. 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