My servant— 'Ο παις μου. In Luke he is called δουλος: whence the writers hinted-at at the end of the last note would draw an argument in proof of the difference of these histories; for as παις sometimes signifies son, they would infer, that this centurion came for the cure of his son; that in Luke for the cure of his servant. This argument, however, is by no means conclusive; for it is plain, from several other passages both in sacred and prophane writers, that παις in the Greek, as well as puer in the Latin, is frequently used for servant.
Greviously tormented— Greviously afflicted. The Greek word is not confined, especiallyin the Hellenistic idiom, to the signification oftormented, but often denotes simply (as has been observed by Grotius and Hammond) afflicted or distressed. Palsies are not attended with torment.