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Pressed upon (ἐπιπίπτειν)
Lit., fell upon.
Plagues (μάστιγας)
Lit., scourges. Compare Act 22:24; Heb 11:36. Our word plague is from πληγή, Latin plaga, meaning a blow. Pestilence or disease is thus regarded as a stroke from a divine hand. Πληγή is used in classical Greek in this metaphorical sense. Thus Sophocles, “Ajax,” 270: “I fear that a calamity (πληγή) is really come from heaven (θεοῦ, god).” So of war. Aeschylus, “Persae,” 251: “O Persian land, how hath the abundant prosperity been destroyed by a single blow (ἐν μιᾷ πληγῇ). The word here, scourges, carries the same idea.