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Luk 23:27. Ἐκόπτοντο, bewailed) either jointly under the emotion of the one common feeling, or even under the influence of peculiar affection. Κόπτεσθαι properly applies to the gestures:[256] θρηνεῖν refers to the lamentation, and weeping tone of voice.
[256] To smite one’s self on the breast on account of some one, is the strict meaning; as the Latin, plangere.-E. and T.