Excerpt from The Expositor, Vol. 4 That fim/tia. Here may mean age rather than stature must of course be admitted; but stature is more prob able, for to say of a boy that he advanced in age is rather an empty truism. In Luke xix. 3 fihmia certainly means stature, and it possibly does so in xii. 25, the only other place in which St. Luke uses the word. And it is perhaps not altogether fanciful to believe that growth in stature would be the point of interest to the beloved physician. Nevertheless, for the question before us, it is not of very much moment whether we adopt the rendering stature or age. There is quite enough in the words and in the context to Show that mania. And o-ocin'a together cover the whole of the physical, intellectual, moral, and spiritual development which was taking place in Jesus during the years which followed the visit to the Temple at Jerusalem. The statement contains two pairs of words, and on the whole the two pairs balance one another. Wisdom and stature balance God and men. And not only so, but the separate members of each pair to a considerable extent correspond. We are probably to understand that in the main it was the advance in aodufa which caused Him to advance in favour with God, and the advance in oimm'a which caused Him to advance in favour with men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.