Fill

Asasubst., meaning a full supply, fill is nscd of food, Lv 25", Dt 23=-' ; of drini; 2 Es 1, Jth ?■-' ; and metaphorically of love, Pr 7' ' Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.' Cf. S. Rutherford, Letfcr.i, xxxv., ' those who livelong, and get a heavy fill of this life ' ; and Shaks. Trail, and Cress. V. viiL 4 — ' Kest, sword ; thou host thy fill of blood and death.'

The verb to fill is fretjuently used by Wyclif (and other early writers) in the sense of execute, accomplish, modern /'»/A7. Tlius tin 27' (13SS) ' he hadde go in to the fceld to fille tlie coiiiaunilinent of the fadir ' (1382 ' that he fulfille the lieest of the fad;r'); Lk 9»' (1380) ' forsothe Moyses and Elye wenn seyn in mageste ; and thei seyden his jjoynge out, which he was t') lillinge in Jeru.-iali'in (l,'!S8 * wliich he sliould fullillo').

Soonce in AV, 2 l';s4'' 'when the number of seeds is filled in you' {im- pletusfuerit ; RV 'fulfilled'). • But the Rhem. NT has a marginal notOj ' That is, in figure and my.stcrio of Christ dead, and aliue agame.' This margin proliably gave AV Iho word ' figure." f Field {oy, ad loc.) suggests ' by a fiction ' for EV ' In a figure. In ilhistnition of the Gr. verb he quou-s 1 S 'is 'Saul di(i>:ui9e<l hinisL'U' (Sym. ft-irtrxi'^^!'** i»i^o.) ; and 1 K 14^ ' Arise.

1 pray thee, and di-sguiso thyself (Theod. tAirmrx^i'^^"" rivrt). To ' fill up ' is to fill to the full, the prep, up, like Gr. Kara, intensifying the verb : as Alt 23^ ' Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers' {TrXijpw- ffoTf) ; * 1 Th 2'" ' to fill up their sins alway ' (eis ri dpaTXypuiaai) ; Col 1^ 'Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the alliictionsof Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church' {avrai/aTrXTipu?

, RV 'till up on my part,' which is Lightfoot's tr.) t ; Mt 9" ' No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse ' {t6 7rXi';pw/ia aiiroO, lit. ' its filling ' ; RV ' that wliich should fill it up') ; so Mk 2-' ; Rev 15' 'in them is filled up the \vrath of God ' [iTcXiae-q, RV 'is finished '). Cf. Shaks. 1 Henry IV. UI. ii.

116— 'To fill the mouth of deep defiance up And shake the peace and safety of our throne.' J. Hastings.