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Hath no place (οὐ χωÏεῖ)
Rev., hath not free course, or maketh no way. This rendering is in harmony with Joh 8:30, Joh 8:31, concerning those who believed, but did not believe on Him, and who showed by their angry answer, in Joh 8:33, that the word of Jesus had made no advance in them. The rendering of the A.V. is not supported by usage, though Field (“Otium Norvicenseâ€) cites an undoubted instance of that sense from the Epistles of Alciphron, a post-Christian writer, who relates the story of a parasite returning gorged from a banquet and applying to a physician, who administered an emetic. The parasite, describing the effect of the medicine, says that the doctor wondered where such a mess had place (ἐχωÌÏησε). For the rendering of the Rev., compare Aristophanes: πῶς οὖν οὐ χωÏεῖ τοὐÌÏγον; “How is it that the work makes no progress?†(“Peace,†472). Plutarch, ἐχωÌÏει διὰ τῆς ποÌλεως ὁ λοÌγος, “the word: (or report) spread (or advanced) through the city (“Caesar,†712).