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Jesus no toller

In Japan Japanese boys make [...?] public places

‘And there followed him (it is said immediately after) Mark xiv. 51, 52 ‘a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body, and the young man laid hold on him. And he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked.’

By some Commentators the young man thus described is understood to have been a courtezan of the male sex. /For/ The costume thus ascribed to him /seems altogether singular/ there seems considerable singularity: and if the interpretation put upon it as above be not the right one it seems difficult to say what other can be, or /in what other view/ for what purpose an incident /for which if not this no other character were be found/ which bears no other character and which has not connection with any other, could have found a biographer to speak of it. Short as it is almost every thing in it and about it is obscure. Who the young men were by whom he was laid hold of what in laying hold of him was their purpose, hostile or amorours: zanki  is the appellative by which he is spoken of: youth fuller2013-11-17T19:20:00

Second Greek word plural of the first. is the appellative by which they are spoken of.

Defence at any rate, after all the possible men had fled, contributing to defence at any rate could not have been his purpose.

11 or 4

One youth still follows, him clad loosely in linen cloth the young men laying hold of him, he leaves the cloth in their hands and flees naked.

12 or 5.

By [...?], this a catamite. Story at any rate singular: if not in this character in what other was he mentioned?

Purpose of apprehension what? hostile or amorous?