A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

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The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 2

Nicoll, W. Robertson (editor), 1851-1923 · 731,986 words · 1069 reading sections

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Πραξεις Αποστολων 1.

Ver. 17. ὅτι κατηριθµηµένος ἦν κ.τ.λ. For theconstruction see ver.10. ὅτι ΙΠπίτο- duces the ground upon which the Scripture to be cited, which speaks of the vacancy in the Apostolic office, found its fulfilment in Judas; “he was numbered,’ ‘triste est numerari non manere,” Bengel.—xai ἔλαχεν τὸν KAfpov: lit., ‘a…

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Ιδ----10. 65 µενος ἐλάκησε µέσος, καὶ ἐξεχύθη πάντα τὰ σπλάγχνα αὐτοῦ: 19. καὶ Ὑνωστὸν ἐγένετο πᾶσι τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ὥστε κληθῆναι τὸ χωρίον ἐκεῖνο τῇ ἰδίᾳ διαλέκτῳ αὐτῶν ᾽Ακελδαμὰ,! 1 Ακελδαµα, so C, Syr. Harcl., Chrys., Vulg.; Αχελδαμαχ SQA 4ο, 61, Tisch. ; AxedSapax B, so W.H., Weiss ; Ακελδαιµαχ D…

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Final x (-ακ) seems certain—see comment below. historian, adopt the view that τῇ διαλέκτῳ αὐτῶν and tovT’ ἔστιν χωρίον αἵματος are explanations introduced by St. Luke, who could trust to his Gentile readers to distinguish between his words and those of St. Peter (Wendt, Holtzmann, Zockler, Nosgen, Jiingst. Matth…

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20. γέγραπται yap ἐν βίβλῳ Ψαλμῶν, «ς , ε ν > ~ 3 \ α ς a 3 Γενηθήτω ἡ ἔπαυλις αὐτοῦ ἔρημος, καὶ μὴ ἔστω ὁ κατοικῶν ἐν - 32 ‘ a > - / oe » αὐτῇ ' Kal, “Thy ἐπισκοπὴν αὐτοῦ λάβοι ἕτερος. 21. Δει οὖν A / ε ο) 3 A 3 ‘ ΄ > e > fol A τῶν συνελθόντων ἡμῖν ἀνδρῶν ἐν παντὶ xpdvw ἐν ᾧ εἰσῆλθε καὶ still considered to bel…

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Ver. 21. δεῖ οὖν, see ver. 16. As the one prophecy had thus already been ful- filled, so for the fulfilment of the other it was imperative upon the Church to elect a successor to ]ηάας.- -εἰσῆλθε καὶ ἐξῆλθεν: a Hebraistic formula expressing the whole course of a man’s daily life; ix. 28; cf. LXX Deut. xxviii. 6,…

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68 Ματθίαν.ὶ ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ i. 24. καὶ προσευξάµενοι εἶπον, Σὺ Κύριε, καρδιογνῶστα πάντων, ἀνάδειξον ἐκ τούτων τῶν δύο ἕνα ὃν ἐξελέξω, 25. λαβεῖν τὸν 1 Ματθιαν; but Μαθ. in B*D, Sah., so Τ., W.H., Hilg. (see Winer-Schmiedel, Ρ. 60; W.H., App., pp. 162, 166). by St. Peter. Both Eusebius and Epi- phanius rank …

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(cf. xxviii. 14, Α.), so the Heb. QD followed by 2. A.V. following Tyn- dall renders ‘by transgression fell,” which lays too much stress upon ‘ fell,” which is not the prominent notion of the Greek verb, elsewhere “transgressed” (Humphry on Revised Version, p. 188). —eis τὸν τόπον τὸν ἴδιον: on τόπος in the sen…

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Lapide). For the expression cf. Lev. xvi. 8. Hebraismus (Wetstein), so Blass. καὶ ἔπεσεν, {.ε., through shak- ing the vessel, Jonah i. 7; cf. Livy, xxlil., 3; so in Homer and Sophocles πάλλειν, cf. Josephus, Ant., vi., 5.— συγκατεψηφίσθη: only here in N.T. «πε was numbered with the eleven Apostles,” i.e., as th…

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But Friedrich proceeds to emphasise the many points in which the history of the Ascension in Acts reminds us of the close of the Gospel (see also Zeller, 1. s., ii., pp. 226, 227, E.T., and also Feine). Only St. Luke knows of the command of Jesus, that the Apostles should not leave Jerusalem, and of the promise …

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a short time before the day of Pentecost, not the day itself. Weiss and others suppose that the expression refers to the completing of the interval of time be- tween the Paschal Feast and Pentecost. Vulgate (cf. Syriac) reads ‘‘cum com- plerentur dies Pentecostes,” and so all English versions have “days” except …

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Il, obpavod ἦχος ὥσπερ φεροµένης πνοῆς βιαίας, καὶ ἐπλήρωσεν ὅλον ος, 2s Ox 1 τον οίκον ου σαν καῦηµενοι ᾿ . καὶ ὤφθησαν αὐτοῖς διαμεριζόμεναι μεριζόμ 1 καθηµενοι; CD read καθεζοµενοι, so Lach., Meyer, Hilg.; but reading in text SABE, minusc., Ath., Cyr.-Jer., Cyr.-Al., Theodrt., Wendt (as against Meyer), W.H.,…

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Ver. 4. ἀποφθέγγεσθαι--α word pecu- liar to Acts, cf. v. 14 and xxvi. 25; in the LXX used not of ordinary conversation, but of the utterances of prophets; cf. Ezek. xiii. 9, Micah v. 12, t Chron. xxv. 3—6. 73 γλῶσσαι doet πυρὸς, ἐκάθισέ] te Ep ἕνα ἕκαστον αὐτῶν, 4. καὶ ἐπλήσθησαν ἅπαντες Πνεύματος “Ayiou, καὶ ἤ…

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74 διαλέκτῳ λαλούντων αὐτῶν.1 Il. 7. ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ ἐθαύμαζον, λέγοντες πρὸς ἀλλήλους, Οὐκ 2 i808 πάντες οὗτοί εἶσιν ot λαλοῦντες Γαλιλαῖοι; 8. καὶ πῶς ἡμεῖς ἀκούομεν ἕκαστος τῇ idia διαλέκτῳ ἡμῶν ἐν ᾗ ἐγεννήθημεν, 9. Πάρθοι καὶ Μῆδοι καὶ Ελαμῖται,» καὶ ot 1 τῃ ιδιᾳ διαλ. λαλουντων; in D λαλουντας ταις …

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7---το. 75 a > , ‘ , κατοικοῦντες THY Μεσοποταµίαν, ᾿Ιουδαίαν τε καὶ Καππαδοκίαν, Πόντον καὶ τὴν ᾿Ασίαν, 10. Φρυγίαν τε καὶ Παμφυλίαν, Αἴγυπτον καὶ τὰ µέρη τῆς Λιβύης τῆς κατὰ Κυρήνην, καὶ οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες Mang., ii., 587). All commentators seem to be agreed in regarding the list as framed to some extent on geo-…

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76 Ῥωμαῖοι, ἸΙουδαῖοί τε καὶ προσήλυτοι, 11. Κρῆτες καὶ "Αραβες, ἀκούομεν λαλούντων αὐτῶν ταῖς ἡμετέραις γλώσσαις τὰ μεγαλεῖα time of Pompey, although their first ap- pearance there dates from the days of the Maccabees (1 Macc. viii. 17, xiv. 24, xv. 15 ff.). Of the numerous Jewish families brought to Rome by Po…

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77 τοῦ Θεοῦ; 12. ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηπόρουν,ὶ ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, Τί ἂν θέλοι τοῦτο εἶναι; 13. ἕτεροι δὲ χλευάζοντες 2 ἔλεγον, Ὅτι γλεύκους µεμεστωμένοι εἰσί. 1 διηπορουν CDEI, Bas., Chrys., so Lach.; διηπορουντο SAB, so Tisch., Weiss, W.H., R.V. After προς αλλον D adds επι tw γεγονοτι, so Blass in …

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Ver. 14. σταθεὶς δὲ Πέτρος: St. Chry- sostom rightly remarks on the change which had passed over St. Peter. In the place where a few weeks before hé had denied with an oath that he knew ‘the man,” he now stands forth to pro- claim him as the Christ and the Saviour. It is quite characteristic of St. Luke thus to…

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Πραξεις Aitoztoaqn

¥4—18. λέγει 6 Θεὸς, ἐκχεῶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πνεύµατός pou ἐπὶ πᾶσαν σάρκα, καὶ προφητεύσουσιν οἱ υἱοὶ ὑμῶν 1 καὶ ai θυγατέρες ὑμῶν: καὶ οἱ νεα- , c ~ ς , ” A c ς νι. . #. νισκοι υμων ορασεις ὀψονται, και οι πρεσβύτεροι υμων ενυπγνια 2 ἐνυπνιασθήσονται, 18. καί γε ἐπὶ τοὺς δούλους µου καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς δούλας µου ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραι…

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Ver. 18. As there was to be no limit of sex or age, SO too there was no limit of con- dition. The word pov is not in the Hebrew, only in the LXX, but as it is found in the latter and in Acts it is argued that the words δούλους and δούλας do not mean those of servile rank, but are applied in a general sense to th…

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But in the Hebrew the word NV = “terrible,” not ‘‘ clearly visible,” and the LXX here, as elsewhere, Hab. i. 7, Mal. i. 14 (Judges xiii. 6, A’), εἲς., has failed to give a right derivation of the word which it connects with ΠΝ, oF: to see, instead of with NY, to fear a (Niph. 119 and Part., as here, “ter- rib…

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Vol, Il.

be a partial fulfilment in the flight of the believers to Pella for safety when the Son of Man came in the destruction ot Jerusalem; but the word carries our thoughts far beyond any such subordinate fulfilment to the fulness of blessing for body and soul which the verb expresses on the lips of Christ; cf. Luke v…

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fi. 1 αὐτοὶ οἴδατε, 23. τοῦτον TH ὠρισμένῃ βουλῇ καὶ προγνώσει τοῦ l και αντοι; but και om. in SABC*DE, Vulg. versions (Syr. Pesh.), Ιπίπί.,, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt. R.V. The word, only used by St. Luke and St. Paul in the N.T. (cf. xxv. 7, 1 Cor. iv. 9, 2 Thess. ii. 4) = demonstrated, and ‘‘approv…

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23—24. «Θεοῦ ἔκδοτον λαβόντες,] διὰ χειρῶν ἀνόμων προσπήξαντες ἀνείλετε" 24. ὃν 6 Θεὸς ἀνέστησε, λύσας τὰς ὠδῖνας τοῦ θανάτου, καθότι οὐκ 1 λαβοντες om. ΝΑΒΟ 61, Vulg., Sah., Boh., Syr. Pesh., Arm., Aeth., Ath., Irint., Victorin. ; so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss— but omitted by Blass in B although found in DNPEC%P, …

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force of the Hebrew bsn which might mean ‘‘ birth-pangs,”’ or the cords of a hunter catching hisprey. In the Hebrew version the parallelism, such a favourite figure in Hebrew poetry, decides in favour of the latter meaning, as in R.V. Ps. xviii. 4, 5 (LXX xvii.), Sheol and Death are personified as hunters lying …

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25--27. µου, καὶ ἠγαλλιάσατο ἡ γλῶσσά µου" 85 ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἡ σάρξ µου κατα- σκηνώσει ἐπ᾽ ἐλπίδι: 27. ὅτι οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψεις τὴν ψυχήν pou εἰς refers rather to a joyous state of mind, “was glad,” R.V., ἠγαλλιάσατο used of outward and active expression of joy is rendered “rejoiced,” R.V. (in A.V. the meaning of the…

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86 adou,! οὐδὲ δώσεις τὸν ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν. 28. ἐγνώρισάς μοι ὁδοὺς ζωῆς: πληρώσεις µε εὐφροσύνης μετὰ τοῦ προσώπου cou.” 20. Ανδρες ἀδελφοὶ, ἐξὸν εἰπεῖν μετὰ παῤῥησίας πρὸς ὑμᾶς περὶ τοῦ πατριάρχου Δαβὶδ, ὅτι καὶ ἐτελεύτησε καὶ ἐτάφη, καὶ τὸ μνῆμα 1 ᾳδου EP, Chrys. (in LXX A); ᾳδην NABCD, Clem., Epiph.,…

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28---31. αὐτοῦ ἐστιν ἐν ἡμῖν ἄχρι τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης. 30. προφήτης οὖν ὑπάρχων, καὶ εἰδὼς ὅτι ὄρκῳ ὤμοσεν αὐτῷ 6 Θεὸς, ἐκ καρποῦ τῆς ὀσφύος αὐτοῦ τὸ κατὰ σάρκα ἀναστήσειν τὸν Χριστὸν,! καθίσαι ἐπὶ τοῦ θρόνου αὐτοῦ, 31. προϊδὼν ἐλάλησε περὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὅτι οὐ κατελείφθη ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ εἰς adou, οὐδὲ ἡ…

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lation of another Hebrew word ow (dual). This partitive construction (supply τινα) is also a Hebraistic mode of expression, and frequent in the LXX ; cf. li, 18, v. 2. See Viteau, Le Grec du N. T., p. 151 (1896). Ver. 31. προϊδών, cf. Gal. iti. 8. The word ascribes prophetic conscious- ness to David in the comp…

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32—36. matpos, é&€xee! τοῦτο ὃ viv ὑμεῖς βλέπετε καὶ ἀκούετε. 89 34. οὐ γὰρ Δαβὶδ ἀνέβη eis τοὺς οὐρανοὺς, λέγει δὲ αὐτός, '' Εἶπεν ὁ Κύριος τῷ κυρίῳ µου, Κάθου ἐκ δεξιῶν µου, 35. ἕως ἂν θῶ τοὺς ἐχθρούς σου “t , ~ ~ 352 ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν σου. 36. ᾿Ασφαλῶς οὖν γινωσκέτω was οἶκος ᾿σραὴλ ὅτι Kal? Κύριον καὶ Χρ…

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9ο ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ I. 37. “Axodcavtes! δὲ κατενύγησαν τῇ καρδία, εἶπόν τε πρὸς τὸν. Πέτρον καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς ἀποστόλους, Τί ποιήσοµεν, ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί; 1 ακουσαντες; before this word D (so Syr. Harcl. mg.) reads τοτε παντες οι συνελθοντες και, and after κατενυγ. την καρδ. D adds και τινες εξ αντων (ειπαν), so Hilg…

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37-30. 38. Πέτρος δὲ ἔφη πρὸς αὐτοὺς, Μετανοήσατε, καὶ βαπτισθήτω ἕκαστος ὑμῶν 1 ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν " καὶ λήψεσθε τὴν δωρεὰν τοῦ Αγίου Πνεύματος. 30. ὑμῖν yap ἐστιν i) ἐπαγγελία καὶ τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς εἰς µακράν, ὅσους 1επι SAEP, Bas., Chrys., so Tisch. and Weiss ; but…

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Ver. 39. ὑμῖν γὰρ: the promise was made to the very men who had invoked upon themselves and upon their children, St. Matt. xxvii. 25, the blood of the Crucified. See Psalms of Solomon, viii., 39 (Ryle and James’ edition, p. 88).— 92 ἂν προσκαλέσηται Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν. 40. ἑτέροις τε λόγοις πλείοσι διεμαρτύρετ…

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Ver. 41. Οἱ μὲν οὖν: a truly Lucan formula, see i. 6. There is no anacolu- thon, but for the answering δέ see v. 43. The words therefore refer to those men- tioned in v. 37; in contrast to the three 40---42. 73 λόγον αὐτοῦ éBanticOncav-: καὶ προσετέθησαν 1 τῇ Hepa ἐκείνῃ Ν ε ‘ ψυχαὶ ὡσεὶ τρισχίλιαι. 42. Ἠσαν …

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ο] ‘ a , α 3 cy a a wie KOLVWVLO και τη κλάσει του αρτου και ταις προσευχαις. 40. ΕΥΕΕΤΟ δὲ πάσῃ ψυχῇ φόβος, πολλά τε τέρατα καὶ σημεῖα διὰ τῶν ἀποσ- 1 και Ty κλασει; om. και N*ABCD* 61, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Hilg., so Alford. Par. του αρ. της κλ.), of which Blass says “recte, nisi delenda τ. «A.”’.…

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ΠΡΑΞΗΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ ος 23—45> ‘ a “πόλων ἐγίνετο.ὶ 44. πάντες δὲ of πιστεύοντες ἦσαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, καὶ εεἶχον 2 ἅπαντα κοινὰ, 45.9 καὶ τὰ κτήµατα καὶ τὰς ὑπάρξεις ἐπίπρασ- 1 Τη νετ. 43 NACE 13, many cursives, Vulg., Syr. Pesh, Boh. add εν ἱερουσαλημ (which is added by D to των αποστ. in ver. 42); so Tisch., Κ.Υ. mar…

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96 ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ i. a / 4 κον, καὶ διεµέριζον αὐτὰ πᾶσι, καθότι ἄν τις χρείαν εἶχε: 46.3 καθ᾽ - ς x ~ ~ ο) ἡμέραν τε προσκαρτεροῦντες ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ, κλῶντές τε KAT 1D omits καθ’ ηµεραν (see previous note) and reads παντες τε προσκαρτερουν, perhaps for additional clearness, or perhaps some confusion (s…

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46. ‘so often as,” “according as”. Spitta refers vv. 45-47 to the Apostles only, but to justify this he is obliged to refer ver. 44 tohisreviser. Hilgenfeld brackets the whole verse, referring it to his “' author to Theophilus,” retaining ver. 44, whilst Weiss also refers the whole verse to a reviser, who intro…

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97 in ver. 42, or whether it is used here of merely ordinary meals. ‘The additional words µετελάμβανον τροφῆς have been taken to support this latter view, but on the other hand if the two expressions are almost synonymous, it is difficult to see why the former κλῶντες ἄρτον should have been introduced here at a…

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It, οἶκον ἄρτον, µετελάμβανον τροφῆς ἐν ἀγαλλιάσει καὶ ἀφελότητι καρδίας, 47. αἰνοῦντες τὸν Θεὸν καὶ ἔχοντες χάριν πρὸς Sov τὸν ii. 13, 20, xix. 37, Acts iii. 8, 9, else- where only in Rom. xv. 11 (a quotation), and Rev. xix. 5, with dative of person, W.H. The praise refers not merely to their thanksgivings at m…

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47» moved rrom the events, could hardly avoid investing even the common phenomena of the Glossolalia with marvel and mystery. Wendt however admits that this embellishment was already accom- plished by Christian tradition before Luke. But if St. Luke must have had every means of knowing from St. Paul the charac…

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99 6, 21. Certainly Heb. ii. 2-4 cannot, as Schmid well points out against Holtzmann, lead to any such con- nection of ideas as the μερισμοὶ πνεύμ. ay. are evidently the distribu- tion of the gifts of the Spirit. We may readily admit that the miracle on the birthday of the Christian Church was meant to foresha…

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hadv. ὁ δὲ Κύριος προσετίθει τοὺς σωζοµένους καθ) ἡμέραν τῇ ἐκκλησία.3 1 τον λαον; D has τον κοσµον. Nestle and Chase point out Syriac as probable source; the former, with Blass, thinking that St. Luke first of all translated the word wrongly, κοσµον, and corrected it in later edition to Aaov, whilst Chase gives t…

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Community of Goods.—The key to the- two passages, li. 42 ff. and iv. 32 ff., is to. be found in the expression in which they both agree, occurring in ii. 45 and iv. 35, καθότι ἄν τις χρείαν εἶχεν. Such ex- pressions indicate, as we have seen, not reckless but judicious charity (see also Ramsay, St. Paul, etc., p…

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action of the Church at Jerusalem, a similar mode of life and charity should not have found place in other Churches, @ eé.g., in the Church at Thessalonica, where the belief in Christ’s speedy return ®was so overwhelmingly felt (Felten). No picture could be more extraordinary than that drawn by O. Holtzmann of …

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III. 1.2 "EM! τὸ αὐτὸ δὲ Πέτρος καὶ Ἰωάννης ἀνέβαινον εἰς τὸ. ἱερὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ὥραν τῆς προσευχῆς τὴν ἐνάτην. 1D begins εν δε ταις ηµεραις ταυταις, so Par. 2. Kai? τις ἀνῆρ. Blass (so Harris) regards the phrase as addition ‘in principio nove lectionis,”’ but the addition is characteristic of After tepov D also inser…

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α----ᾱ, 103 χωλὸς ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχων ἐβαστάζετο" ὃν ἐτίθουν καθ᾽ ἡμέραν πρὸς τὴν θύραν τοῦ ἱεροῦ τὴν λεγομένην Ὡραίαν, τοῦ the evening sacrifice commenced much earlier, The Temple; its Ministry and Services, pp. 115, 116. According to Schiirer, followed by Blass who appeals to the authority of Hamb…

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104 ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ Ill. 3. ὃς iSav* Métpov καὶ Ιωάννην µέλλοντας εἰσιέναι εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν ἠρώτα 3 3 =» ἐλ , 1 ‘ αλ 3 έ 3 ὸ ε ό αἴτειν ἐλεημοσύνην ' παρὰ τῶν εἰσπορευομένων εἰς τὸ ἱερόν. ἐλεημοσύνην λαβεῖν. 4.4 ἀτενίσας δὲ Πέτρος eis αὐτὸν σὺν τῷ Ἰωάννη, εἶπει» Βλέψον εἰς ἡμᾶς. 5.6 ὁ δὲ ἐπεῖχεν αὐτοῖς, προσδοκῶν …

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Ver. 5. 6 δὲ ἐπεῖχεν, sc., νοῦν (not τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς); cf. Luke xiv. 7, 1 Tim. iv. 16, Ecclesiasticus xxxi. (xxxiv.) 2, 2 Macc. ix. 25 (Job xxx. 26, A.S.? al.) with dative rei; so in Polybius. .—* Ver 6. ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον: the words do not suggest the idea of a complete com- munism amongst the believers, altho…

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Ver. 7. πιάσας, cf. xii. 4: so in LXX, Cant. ii. 15, Ecclesiasticus xxiii. 21, A. al. χειρὸς very similar to, if not exactly, a partitive genitive, found after verbs of touching, etc., inasmuch as the touching affects only a part of the object (Mark v. 30), and so too often after verbs of taking hold of, the par…

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Ver. 8. ἐξαλλόμενος: not leaping out of his couch (as has sometimes been sup- posed), of which there is no mention, but leaping up for joy (cf. Isaiah lv. 12, Joel ii. 5) (on the spelling with one A see Blass, p. 51); cf. also Isaiah xxxy. 6. This seems more natural than to suppose that he leaped because he was …

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Ver. 11. κρατοῖντος: in his joy and gratitude, “holding them” in a physical sense, although it is possible that it signifies that the healed man joined. himself to the Apostles more closely as a follower (iv. 14), fearing like the de- moniac healed by Christ (Luke viii. 38). lest he should be separated from his …

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Ver. 12. This address of St. Peter divides itself into two parts, 12-16, 17-26, and although it covers much of the same ground as in chap. Π., there is no need to regard it with Overbeck and Holtz- mann as unhistorical: see Blass, in loco, and Feine; the latter points out that St. Peter would naturally, as in ch…

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Ver. 13. 6 Θεὸς ᾽Αβραὰμ «.7.A.: the words were wisely chosen, not only to gain attention and to show that the speaker identified himself with the nation and hope of Israel, but also because in Jesus St. Peter saw the fulfilment of the promise made to Abraham. ---ἐδόξασε, John viii. 54, xi. 4. Again we mark the …

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αντον om. ABC, Tisch., W.H., R.V. work so unique (cf. Isaiah xlii. 1 ff., xlix. 1-3, 5, 8, |. 4-9, lii. 13-liii. 12). For if we admit that the word ‘ Servant” may be used, and is sometimes used, of the nation of Israel (cf. Isaiah xli. 8, xlv. 4), and if we admit that some of the traits in the portrait of Jehova…

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ἄνδρα Φονέα χΧαρισθῆναι ὑμῖν, 15. τὸν δὲ ἀρχηγὸν τῆς ζωῆς ἀπεκ- τείνατε" ὃν 6 Θεὸς ἤγειρεν ἐκ νεκρῶν, οὗ ἡμεῖς µάρτυρές ἐσμεν. 2 Cor. x. 1—the expression need not be explained as a Hebraism, it is found several times in Polybius; see Dalman, Die Worte Fesu, p. 23. In the LXX it is frequent in various senses, and …

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Ver. 15. τὸν δὲ ἀρχηγὸν τῆς ζωῆς” again the words stand in marked cor trast not only to φονέα but also to ἀπεκ τείνατε; magnificum antitheton, Bengel. The word is rendered “ Author” in th margin of R.V. (Vulgate, auctorem) bur **Prince”’ in the text and so in v. 31 (Vulg., principem). In the two other passages i…

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x. 39. R.V. reads ‘of whom”? in the margin. Ver. 16. ἐπὶ: so T.R., and so Weiss and Wendt: “on the ground of faith in His name,” R.V. margin; cf. Luke v. 5 (not expressing the aim as if it meant with a view to faith in His name). But the name is no mere formula of incanta- tion, see xix. 13, nor is it used as, …

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fore their hope of pardon was assured on their repentance (cf. 1 Pet. i. 14, év ἀγνοίᾳ, and Psalms of Solomon, xviii., 5, for the same phrase). St. Peter speaks in the spirit of his Master, Luke xxiii. 34. See instances in Wetstein of the antithesis of the two phrases ka?’ ἄγνοιαν and κατὰ πρόθεσιν (προαίρεσιν) …

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19. µετα- - aA , νοήσατε οὖν καὶ ἐπιστρέψατε, eis τὸ ἐξαλειφθῆναι ὑμῶν τὰς ἁμαρτίας, near Dijon... is a beautiful monu- ment. ... It consists of a group of Prophets and Kings from the O.T., each holding in his hand a scroll of mourning from his writings—each with his own individual costume and gesture and look…

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word (WT, in the only other place in which it occurs, Lam. iii. 56, may have the sense of “relief” (see Dr. Payne Smith, in loco, Speaker’s Com- meniary, vol. ν.). In Strabo ἀνάψυξις is found in the sense of recreation, refresh- ment, x., p. 459 ; see also Philo, De Abr., 29, and cf. the verb ἀναψύχω in 2 Tim. …

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