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Agree with (ἴσθι εὐνοῶν)
Lit., be well-minded toward; inclined to satisfy by paying or compromising. Wyc., Be thou consenting to.
Officer (ὑπηρέτῃ)
Denoting a subordinate official, as a herald or an orderly, and in this sense applied to Mark as the “minister” or attendant of Paul and Barnabas (Act 13:5). It furnishes an interesting instance of the expansion of a word from a limited and special meaning into a more general one; and also of the influence of the Gospel in lifting words into higher and purer associations. Formed with the verb ἐρέσσω, to row, it originally signified a rower, as distinguished from a soldier, in a war-galley. This word for a galley-slave comes at last, in the hands of Luke and Paul, to stand for the noblest of all offices, that of a minister of the Lord Jesus (Luk 1:2; Act 26:16; 1Co 4:1).