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Joh 5:4. Ἄγγελος, an angel) To many without doubt that event has seemed purely natural [not supernatural]; because it took place κατὰ καιρόν.-κατὰ καιρόν, at certain times) Were these times at equal intervals? Were they especially about the time of Pentecost? Who knows?-κατέβαινεν, used to go down [went down]) Past time. Therefore this phenomenon had ceased before that John wrote.-ἐταράσσετο, was troubled) By the passive verb is expressed the phenomenon as it presented itself to the eyes of all, although they knew not the angel’s action.[103]-ΠΡῶΤΟς, the first) To him that hath, it shall be given.
[103] They could not positively know that it was the doing of an angel, but they judged of the cause from the effects.-E. and T.