PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 2
Nicoll, W. Robertson (editor), 1851-1923 · 731,986 words · 1069 reading sections
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Who is the early Christian writer thus able to give us not only such an account of the Life of our Lord that Renan could describe it as the most beautiful book in the world (Les Evangiles, p. 283), but also an account of the origines of the Christian Church which Jiilicher regards as an ideal Church history, Einlei…
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methods of which a Thucydides, a Polybius, a Josephus availed themselves to make their personal relation to the facts narrated known to their readers (Zahn, Einleitung, ti., pp. 387, 426, 435). This unknown author of Acts, moreover, whoever he was, was a man of such literary skill that he was able to assimilate the…
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left behind by an intimate companion of St. Paul must have been preserved long enough for this unknown writer to have incorporated it, or at least some of it, into his own work, and it must then have vanished altogether out of sight, although one would have supposed that a treasure so valuable would have been prese…
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mann, 4. s., p. 395). See further Zahn, wu. s., pp. 351, 388, 425; Lightfoot, B.D.?, i., 32. But if the author of these sections is to be found amongst the intimate companions of St. Paul, and amongst those who were with him in Rome, no one fulfils the conditions better than St. Luke. Even Jiilicher, who declines …
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Gospel and the Acts to Luke, the beloved physician, the friend of St. Paul, cf. Frag. Murator., and Iren., Adv. Her,, iii., 14. But Luke, we have been recently reminded, was not an uncom- mon name, and many Christians may have borne it in the latter part of the first century (McGiffert, Apostolic Age, p. 435). But …
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the Church, would seém to be quite plain, but Dr. McGiffert declines to draw it, and falls back upon the belief that some other person named Luke was the writer of the third Gospel and Acts, p. 433. But if there had been such a person there would have been no need for tradition to identify him with Luke the beloved…
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p. 274 ff. More recently the German philologist Vogel, 1897, Zur Charakteristik des Lukas nach Sprache und Stil, p. 17, draws attention to the fact that a large number of words peculiar to the Acts are found in Luke’s contemporary, the physician Dioscorides of Anazarbus in Cilicia, not far from Antioch, and he spea…
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needle ῥαφίδος: διὰ τρυπήµατος ῥαφίδος, Matt., T.R.; but W.H τρήµατος in text, τρυπήµατος in margin, διὰ (τῆς) τρυμαλιᾶς (τῆς) ῥαφίδος. Mark. But when we turn to St. Luke, he introduces at least one different word (if we adopt W.H. for St. Matt.), and a combination peculiar to himself, διὰ τρήµατος Bedovns (W.H. an…
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Nothing, it is true, is said in Acts of the beginnings of Christianity in Rome, or as to how the Church was first founded in that city ; but when we consider the importance that St. Paul plainly attached to his seeing for himself the metropolis of the world, cf. xix. 21, and when his Epistle addressed to the Roman …
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admirable candour (A postelgeschichte, p. 17), “there is no reason to doubt that this representation simply corresponded to historical truth” (see the whole paragraph in Wendt, 1899, and cf. Weiss, u. s., p. 569 as against Overbeck and Mangold, u.s., p. 427, following Schnecken- burger and Zeller). Moreover, when w…
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his historical truthfulness, whilst Baur fastened upon Schnecken- burger’s view, and further developed his own previous attack on the historical character of Acts (Zahn, wu. s., p. 393, Lightfoot, B.D.?, i., 41). -But Baur’s theory in its extreme form could not maintain its ground, and various modifications of it t…
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only be extended to a few instances such as the healing of the lame man by Peter at Jerusalem, iii. 2, and by Paul at Lystra, xiv. 8, but there is no real ground for the institution of a parallel between the worship paid to Peter by Cornelius, x. 25, and by the inhabitants of Lystra to St. Paul, xiv. 11, or between…
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way, ver. 12, and not only does later history associate St. Mark with St. Peter, but also with St. Luke and St. Paul, inasmuch as he is with the latter in Rome, Col. iv. 10, Philem., ver. 24 (cf. 2 Tim. iv. 11), to say nothing of an earlier association, cf. Acts xiii. (Ramsay, οὐ. Paul, p. 385; Blass, 1. 5., p.11; …
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himself have been there, and from whom the Evangelist may at all events have learnt much of the information about other members of the Herodian family which comes to us from him only (Plumptre, Zahn, Belser, Feine). It may no doubt be contended, with con- siderable plausibility, that St. Luke must have had at his c…
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pp. 414, 423; Dalman, Die Worte $esu, p. 31, 1898.1 If it be main- tained that the earlier chapters of Acts, i.-v., were incorporated from some earlier document, it is admitted that this was of Jewish- Christian origin, derived from the Jewish Church through an eye-witness (cf. B. Weiss, Einleitung, p. 549, 3rd edi…
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audientibus accommodata,’ says Blass); in both cases starting from truths which some of the Greek philosophers might themselves have pressed home, but in each case leading up to and insisting upon the need and necessity of repentance for wise and simple alike ; were eminently characteristic of a man who became as a…
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δέχοµαι, ἐπικαλεῖσθαι and τὸ ὄνομα (Ndsgen, Felten), while it contains several peculiar to St. Luke. But if the Evangelist was present at the delivery of the defence, he would have been able to reproduce the speech himself, or at least its substance, and we have an explanation of the fact just mentioned (see Salmon…
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It cannot be said that the recent and frequent attempts to multiply and differentiate sources in Acts, to assign them to various revisers or redactors, have met with any degree of real success. If Holtzmann and Wendt (see also a description of these attempts. in Theologische Rundschau, Feb., March, April, 1899) con…
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however without the opposition of Bleek and Ulrich, the former of whom supported Schleiermacher. But Schleiermacher’s view of the part played by Timothy had already met with the strong opposition of Schneckenburger, 1841, and Swanbeck, 1847, attacked it by means of his own more complicated and more hazardous attemp…
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once started that these sections, although not the work of St. Luke, were the work of an eye-witness (since their vividness and circum- stantiality could not otherwise be accounted for), and so derived from a source, the whole question of the authorship of this source was revived, and the claims of Timothy, Silas, …
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partitions, that even Heitmiiller cannot give anything but modified commendation to his theory, Theol. Rundschau, p. 87, 1899, and that a still severer condemnation is inflicted by Zéckler, Greifswalder Studien, p. 114, cf. Knabenbauer, p. 1]. In the same year, 1890, Sorof published his Die Entstehung der Apostelg…
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reconstruction of Acts is that of Dr. C. Clemen. His three chief sources (with which he closely connects other shorter sources, ¢.¢., a source for vi. 1-6) are named (1) Historia Hellenistarum, H.H., vi. 9, 10, vii. 1-36, 35-584, 59>, viii, 1>, xi. 19-21, 248, 26: this source Clemen regards as very old and trustwor…
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Redactor Antijudaicus, Jiingst, Die Quellen der Apostelgeschichte, p. 9. Whether we view it from its critical or from its chronological standpoint, Clemen’s theory has not gained favour in England; for the former, see Ramsay, Sé. Paul, p. 11, and for the latter, Sanday and Headlam, Romans, p. xxxviii. But further, …
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A, a Jewish-Christian source, i. 15-v. 42, describing the origin and development of the mother-Church; from it were also derived ix. 31-42, xi. 2, Cod. D, a passage relating a missionary circuit, xii. 1-23; (2) πράξεις τῶν ἑπτά, a Jewish-Christian document hellenised, commencing with vi. 1, and continuing to viii. …
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Heitmiiller, u. s., pp. 94, 139, highly commends the service rendered by J. Weiss in insisting upon the fact that, even if it is derived from sources, the book of Acts forms a whole, written with a definite purpose and aim, and it is no doubt true that the more we recognise this, the more readily shall we recognise…
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ledge of independent tradition is admitted even by those who main- tain the dependence in question ; see, 6.5., Krenkel, u. s., p. 207, Clemen, Die Chronologie der Paulinischen Briefe, p. 68 (see further in commentary, v. 36, xii. 19, xxi. 38, and Zahn’s instances of this independent knowledge of events and persons…
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as Zahn points out, than that the man who wrote Luke 1. 1-4 should go to school and learn from Josephus? (Cf. C. Apion., i., 9; Ant., xx., 12.) But again what can we expect from an author who can find a parallel between Luke ii. 42 and Jos., Vita, 2? (See Gloél, Die jiingste Kritik des Galaterbriefes, p. 65.) The ‘…
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a writer who had passed through the reign of Domitian, Sé. Paul, p. 387, and he dates its publication in the year immediately following 81 A.D., 1.6., in the early years of Domitian. But whilst Harnack’s language might be employed by one who even dated the book before the persecution of Nero, Ramsay maintains that …
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But if on other grounds, 6.5., on account of the prologue to St. Luke’s Gospel (Harnack, 4. s., p. 248, Sanday, B.L., p. 278, Page, Acts, p. xviii.), we are asked to place that book after the destruction of Jerusalem, it is further maintained by Harnack that some consider- able interval must have elapsed after that…
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It would appear then that the date of Acts must be determined to a great extent by the date assigned to the third Gospel; and this apparently was the view of Bishop Lightfoot (cf Plummer, St. Luke, p. xxix., and Zéckler, Apostelgeschichte, p. 163, 2nd edit.), inasmuch as he leaves the question of the date of Acts u…
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neighbourhood of Rome, and on the evident ignorance of Theophilus as to the localities of Palestine, and apparently also in some respects, and in comparison with the author, of Macedonia and Greece (c/. xvi. 12; xvii. 19, 21). If we turn to external testimony in favour of the book we find it full and satisfactory …
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the second century; cf. Acta Pauli et Thecle (apparently a part of the Acta Pauli), which are frequently dependent upon our Acts for their notices of persons and places, and also Acta Petri dependent again upon our Acts, as in the notice of the meeting of Peter and Simon Magus, cf. Zéckler, Apostelgeschichte, p, 15…
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Apostle would thus arrive in Rome in the spring of 57, and his release follows in 59. (O. Holtzmann from other data places the arrival of Festus in Palestine in the summer of 55, and both he and McGiffert place Paul’s arrival in Rome in 56, and his imprisonment 56-58.) This chronology has been severely criticised …
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Page, Acts, xxxviii.; Zahn, Einleitung, ii., p. 639; Lightfoot, B.D.?, i., 42), If we adopt Mr. Turner’s date for Festus—a date intermediate between the earlier and later dates assigned above—and work back, we get 56 as the date for St. Paul’s arrest in Jerusalem and im- prisonment in Czesarea, 55 for his leaving …
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and Chron.,” Expositor, October, 1899, written too late for more than a brief mention here, as also Professor Bacon’s more recent contribution, Expositor, November, 1899). But although there are so many points of contact between secular history and the Acts, it seems that we must still be content with what Harnack…
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editions of Acts, and is said by Semler to have published his opinion, although under an assumed name (Zahn, Eznleitung, ii., p. 348; see also on the same page Zahn’s interesting acknowledgment that he was himself in 1885-6 working on much the same lines as Blass). Meanwhile Tisch., W. H., B. Weiss have sought to e…
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text employed by Irenzeus, which contains many resemblances to D; to the text of St. Cyprian, which shows the same peculiarity; to the text of St. Augustine, especially in his treatises against the Mani- cheans, containing Acts i.-ii. 13, x. 13, 15, parts which are not found in the Fleury palimpsest: cf. also Tertu…
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even to the Greek of Codex Bezz, since it has in Corssen’s opinion an internal unity and sequence wanting in the latter, although it agrees in many peculiarities with the Greek of that Codex (Harris, u. S., p. 53; Salmon, Introd., p. 594). Corssen thus helps materially to prove the antiquity of the Western Latin. …
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maintained that if α is original we can understand the smoothness of β, but not vice versd, and it must always be remembered that this love of paraphrase and simplification has been urged on high authority as a marked characteristic of the Western readings in general, cf. W. Η., p. 122 ff., and B. Weiss, Der Codex …
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xx. 18, xxvii. 1, etc.; (3) those in which exact information appears to characterise the references of β to places, circumstances, persons, cf., in addition to passages of this character already noticed under (1), xi. 28, xii. 1, 10, xvi. 35, xviii, 18, 27, xix. 14, xx. 15, xxi. 16, xxiv. 27, xxviii. 16, 19 (see fo…
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boce,and Harnack, Sitzungsberichte d. kinigl. Preuss. Akad. d. Wissen- schaften zu Berlin, xi., 1899), whilst he lays stress upon xi. 28, and maintains the genuine Lucan character of the words used, ¢.g., ὀγαλλίασις, συστρέφειν. Still more recently Hilgenfeld, Acta Apostolorum, 1899, has again, and more fully, exp…
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1899; B. Weiss, Einleitung, 3rd edit., 1897; Jilicher, Einleitung,, 1894; (3) Speczal Treatises: Hilgenfeld, Acta Apostolorum, Greece et Latine, 1899; J. Weiss, Uber die Absicht und den literarischen Charakter der Abpostelgeschichte, 1897; Bethge, Die Paulinischen Reden der Apostelgeschichte, 1887, a reverent and i…
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1. 1, ΤΟΝ μὲν πρῶτον λόγον ἐποιησάμην περὶ πάντων, ὦ Θεόφιλε, ὧν ἠρξατο ὁ ᾿Ιησοῦς ποιεῖν τε καὶ διδάσκειν, 2. ἄχρι ἧς ἡμέρας 1B and also the subscription of ΝΔ; so Lach., W.H., Wendt. D has πραξις αποστολων. S merely πραξεις, so Tisch. πραξεις των αποστολων 31, 615; so Griesb., Meyer, whilst των αγιων before αποστο…
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Omit. BD, W.H. (see Blass, πρότερος by St. Luke.—Aédyov: frequently used by classical writers in the sense of a narrative or history contained in a book ; see instances in Wetstein. The passage in Plato, Phedo, p. 61, B., is valuable not only for the marked contrast between λόγος and pO0s, ποιεῖν μύθους ἀλλ᾽ οὐ…
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_— as it were to “your Excellency” (Εἶπ- leitung in das N. Τ., ii., 360, 383). The instance of the address of the Efist. ad Diognetum, κράτιστε Διόγνητε, is alleged by Blass as an instance that the epithet is not always used in the technical sense mentioned; but to this Ramsay replies that if Diognetus was the …
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51 1 ὁπτανόμενος 4. Καὶ συναλιζό- 1 τεσσαρακοντα, so B°E 1, 13, Meyer; but τεσσερακοντα ΝΑΒ”"ΟΡ 61, so Tisch., W.H., Weiss. technical significance, is hardly consistent with any other supposition (see Sanday, Inspiration, p. 319, note). The recent attempt to identify Theophilus with Seneca, referred to by Zock…
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$2 pevos! παρήγγειλεν αὐτοῖς ἀπὸ ἹἹεροσολύμων μὴ χωρίζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ , AY > Xt ~ , ἁ > , , 2 οί περιµένειν τὴν ἐπαγγελιαν του πατρός, ἣν Ὁκούσατε µου”' 5. Ότι 1 συναλιζοµενος, some good cursives συναυλιζοµενος. Aug. prefixes ws to συναλ.; so β (see also Belser). D reads συναλισκοµενος (-σγομ. D*). D, Gig., Par.?, S…
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-5—6. Ιωάννης 1 μὲν ἐβάπτισεν ὕδατι, ὑμεῖς δὲ βαπτισθήσεσθε ἐν Πνεύματι “Ayiw, οὗ μετὰ πολλὰς ταύτας ἡμέρας." 6. Οἱ μὲν οὖν συνελθόντες 1 lwavvys; in D almost throughout lwavns, see W.H., Notes on Orthography, p. 166, on authority of B and D. Nestle (Expository Times, Nov., 1897, Ρ. 93) points out that in D w pre…
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lay > , an η ῃ > 5 n , , 9 ἐπηρώτων αὐτὸν λέγοντες, Κύριε, et ἐν τῷ Χρόνῳ τούτῳ ἀποκαθισ- τάνεις τὴν βασιλείαν τῷ Ἰσραήλ; 7. εἶπε δὲ πρὸς αὐτούς, Οὐχ ὑμῶν Ver. 4. συναλίζοµενος: α 5ίΤΟΠΡ array of modern commentators renders “ eating with them,” following the Vulgate con- vescens illis (so both A. and R.V. in m…
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7—8. 55 ἐστι γνῶναι χρόνους ἢ καιροὺς οὓς 6 Πατὴρ ἔθετο ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ" 8. ἀλλὰ λήψεσθε δύναμιν, ἐπελθόντος τοῦ ᾽Αγίου Πνεύματος ἐφ᾽ ὑμᾶς, where in N.T. (but see x. 24, D), but used in classical Greek of awaiting a thing’s happening(Dem.). The passage in LXX in which it occurs is suggestive: τὴν σωτηρίαν πε…
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_is a reference in the words to a common meal ofthe Lord with His disciples already mentioned in ver. 4, and after this final meal the question of ver. 6 is asked on the way to Bethany (Luke xxiv. 50). The words of μὲν οὖν συνελθ. are referred by Felten to the final meeting which formed the conclusion of the con…
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Ver. 7. Χρόνους ἢ καιρούς: Blass re- gards the two as synonymous, and no doubt it is difficult always to maintain a distinction. But here χρόνους may well be taken to mean space of time as such, the duration of the Church’s history, and καιρούς the critical periods in that history. 6 μὲν καιρὸς δηλοῖ ποιότητα χ…
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Ver. 9. ἐπήρθη: the word in ver. 2 is different, and ἐπήρθη seems not merely to denote our Lord’s first leaving the ground (as Weiss, Overbeck), but also to be more in accordance with the calm and grandeur of the event than ἀπήρθη; this latter word would rather denote a taking away by νιο]εποε.- καὶ νεφέλη ὑπέλ…
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1. αὐτοῖς ἐν n ~ a Δ Φ ” n ἐσθῆτι AceuK,2 11. ot καὶ εἶπον, “AvSpes Γαλιλαῖοι, τί ἑστήκατε 3 / > 5 > , ea ἐμβλέποντες εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν; οὗτος 6 ς ᾿Ιησοῦς 6 ἀναληφθεὶς ad’ ~ / 5 , a ὑμῶν eis τὸν οὐρανόν, οὕτως ἐλεύσεται, ὃν τρόπον ἐθεάσασθε αὐτὸν ή πορευόµενον εἷς τὸν οὐρανόν. 12. τότε ὑπέστρεψαν εἲς Ἱερουσαλ…
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Ver. 12. τότε: frequent in Acts and in St. Luke’s Gospel, but most frequent in St. Matthew; on its use see Grimm- Thayer, and Blass, Gramm. des N. G., p. 27ο.-- ὑπέστρεψαν: a word charac- teristic of Luke both in his Gospel and in Acts, occurring in the former over twenty times, in the latter ten or eleven time…
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Ver. 13. τὸ ὑπερῷον: “the upper chanr- ber,” R.V., as of some well-known place, but there is no positive evidence to identify it with the room of the Last Supper, al- though here and in Mark xiv. 15, as also in Luke xxii. 12, the Vulgate has cenaculum. Amongst recent writers Hilgenfeld and Feine see in this defi…
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14. 61 προσκαρτεροῦντες ὁμοθυμαδὸν τῇ προσευχῇ καὶ τῇ δεήσει, σὺν ν ‘ A Τα ‘ a2 a Ay th A 3 πας gas γυναιξὶ καὶ Mapia? τῇ μητρὶ τοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ, καὶ σὺν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς αὐτοῦ. 1 Maptap BE (some very good cursives), Sah., Aeth., Chrys.; so Tisch., W.H., Weiss—the latter is said to be put always for the Virgin, but here e…
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62 15. ΚΑΙ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ταύταις ἀναστὰς Πέτρος ἐν µέσῳ τῶν μαθητῶν 1 εἶπεν (ἦν τε ὄχλος ὀνομάτων ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ὡς ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν'), 1 µαθητων; but NABC*, Vulg., Tisch., W.H., R.V., so Weiss, Wendt αθελφων. settled homes in Galilee to take part in the lot of the disciples of Jesus, and to await with them the prom…
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dese ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ 16. Ανδρες ἀδελφοί, eer! πληρωθῆναι τὴν γραφὴν ταύτην, ἣν προεῖπε τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Άγιον διὰ στόματος Δαβίδ, περὶ ᾿Ιούδα τοῦ γενοµένου ὁδηγοῦ τοῖς συλλαβοῦσι τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν: 17. ὅτι κατηριθµηµένος ἦν σὺν 1 Sep ΝΑΒΟΡΕ, Origen, Eus., Ath., W.H., Weiss. δει D*, Vulg., Boh.; so Gig., Par., Aug. (Iren.,…
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