Painful, painfulness

‘ Painful’ was for- merly used as we now use ‘ pe eee, i.e. care- ful, industrious, laborious. We find three examples in AV, Ps 7315 ‘When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me’ (‘py2 [Keré min] xn Soy, ie. as AVmand RVm ‘it was labour in mine eyes’), 2 Es7™, 2Mac 2. So Elyot, The Governour, ii. 275, ‘Suppose ye that the same Anniball. . coulde haue wonne from the Romagnes all Spayne.. if he had not ben a man paynefull and of labour incom- arable ?’; Livingstone in Select Biog. i.

316, ‘Mr. avid Dickson—a man singularly gifted with an edifying way of preaching, and whose painfull labours were eminently blessed with successe.’ ‘ Painfulness’ also was used in the sense of care- fulness, industry, but in its only occurrence in AV the meaning is ‘ toilsomeness,’ 2 Co 11”, Gr. μόχθος, which is elsewhere (1 Th 2°, 2 Th 3%) rendered ‘travail,’ and that is accordingly the rendering of RV here also. Cf. Hooker, Deel. Pole wwii i.

‘The search of knowledge is a thing painful, and the painfulness of knowledge is that which maketh the will so hardly inclinable thereto.’ J. HASTINGS.