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Helped the woman (eboēthēsen tēi gunaiki). First aorist active indicative of boētheō, old verb with the dative as in Heb 2:18, which see. Herodotus tells of the Lycus disappearing underground near Colossae. But this vivid symbol is not dependent on historical examples.
Swallowed up (katepien). Second aorist active indicative of katapinō, literally “drank down.”