{My little daughter} ( o thugatrion mou). Diminutive of
hugat(8872) ( Mt 9:18 ). "This little endearing touch in the use
of the diminutive is peculiar to Mark" (Vincent). "Is at the
point of death" (eschat(9373) echei). Has it in the last stages.
Mt 9:18 has: "has just died" (arti eteleusen), Luke "she lay
a dying" (apethn(8873)ken, imperfect, she was dying). It was a
tragic moment for Jairus. {I pray thee}, not in the Greek. This
ellipsis before hina not uncommon, a sort of imperative use of
hina and the subjunctive in the _Koin(825f) (Robertson, _Grammar_,
p. 943).
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