Again (Hastings' Dictionary)

The proper meaning of again, 'a second time,' is well seen in Rev 19* 'And a. (Gr. SeiTtpoc, RV 'a second time') they said. Alleluia' ; Jn 9" 'Then a. called they (RV 'so they called a second time, Gr. ix Sevripov) the man that was blind '; Ac 11' 'But the voice answered me a. (Gr. (k Scvripov, RV ' a second time ') from heaven ' ; Ph 4" ' ye sent once and again ' (Gr. Sis, tivice, as in Lk 18" 'I fast tvrice in the week'). But the oldest meaning of a.

is 'in the opposite direction' (now generally expressed by ' back '), and of this there are some interesting examples in the Bible : Jg 3" 'He himself turned a. (RV 'back') from the quarries'; Lk 10" 'when I come a. (RV 'back again') I will repay thee'; Pr2" 'None that go unto her return a. ; 2 S 22" '(I) tumcd not a. untU I ha<l consumed them ' ; Lk 6" ' lend, hoping for nothing a.' (RV 'never despairing'); Gn 24° ' Must I needs bring thy son a. unto the land from whence thou camcst?

; Mt 11 'go and show John a. (=go back and show John) those things which ye do hear ' ; Ro 9^ A Vm ' who art thou that answerest again?' Cf. Ps 19' (Pr. Bk.) ' It (the sun) goeth fortli from the uttermost part of the heaven, and runneth almost unto the end of it a.' ; and Tum a^ain, WhlttlngtoD, thrioe Lord Mayor of London I' J. ELastinqs. AGAINST AGK, AGED, OLD AGE 47