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The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 2

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116 οὐρανὸν μὲν δέξασθαι ἄχρι Ill. Xpovwv ἀποκαταστάσεως πάντων, ay ἐλάλησεν ὁ Θεὸς διὰ orépatos! πάντων ἁγίων αὑτοῦ προφητῶν aw 1 ayer, prefix των instead of παντων ΝΑΒΟΡ 27,61, Vulg. verss., Irint., Chrys., Orig. ; so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt. αυτου προφ. am atwvos; but κ ΑΒ”Ο 61, 69 read am’ αιωνος …

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23—23. αἰῶνος. 117 22.1 Μωσῆς μὲν γὰρ πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας εἶπεν, “Or προ- φήτην ὑμῖν ἀναστήσει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῶν ἐκ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ὑμῶν, ὡς ἐμέ. αὐτοῦ ἀκούσεσθε κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἂν λαλήση πρὸς Spas. 23. ἔσται δέ, Taga ψυχή, ῆτις ἂν μὴ ἀκούσῃ τοῦ προφήτου ἐκείνου, 1 Μωσης, SONEP; but Μωνσης in ABCD, so Tisch., W.H., We…

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rendering of the familiar Hebrew 5 (Lum- by), which is so frequent in the LXX; see also Grimm-Thayer, sub v., and Delitzsch, Messianische Weissagungen, p. 46 ff., second edition (1899). Ver. 23. ἔσται δὲ, cf. ii. 17. The expression, which is not in the Hebrew, 118 ἐξολοθρευθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ aod.” 24. καὶ πάντες δ…

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24---35. A ε ΄ τὰς ἡμέρας ταύτας. 119 25. ὑμεῖς ore! υἱοὶ τῶν προφητῶν, καὶ τῆς διαθήκης fs διέθετο ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας 3 ἡμῶν, λέγων πρὸς 1 νιοι, prefix οι ΔΑΒΟΕ, 61, Boh., Sah.; so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss. 2 mpav S*CDP 1, 13, 31, Vulg., Boh., Sah., Syrr. (P. and H.), Arm., Aeth., so Tisch., W.H. margin…

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St. Peter’s Discourses—More recent German criticism has departed far from the standpoint of the early Tibrigen school, who could only see in these dis- courses the free composition of a lates 120 > “cc ΔΝ a s 3 , - ε ‘ Αβραάμ, “Kal τῷ σπέρµατί σου ἐνευλογηθήσονται πᾶσαι αἱ πατριαὶ τῆς γῆς.” age, whilst Dr. McG…

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St. Paul could write of Him, Who took upon Him the form of a servant, Who humbled Himself, and became obedient to the death of the Cross, Phil. ii. 6; and St. Peter, in one familiar word, which so far as we know St. Paul never used, brings before his hearers the same sublime pic- ture of obedience, humility, dea…

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΄ ~ του TV. 1. ΛΑΛΟΥΝΤΩΝ δὲ αὐτῶν πρὸς τὸν λαόν, ἐπέστησαν αὐτοῖς of , ἐπέστη ἱερεῖς 1 καὶ 6 στρατηγὸς τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ οἱ Σαδδουκαῖοι, 2. διαπονού-- 1 vepets NADEP 1, 31, 61, Vulg., Sah., Boh., Syrr. (P. and H.), Lucif., Chrys., so- Tisch., W.H. margin, R.V. text, Weiss, Hilg.; αρχιερεις BC 4, Arm., Aeth., so W.H.…

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Ver. 2. διαπονούμενοι, cf xvi. 18, only in Acts in the N.T., not, as often in classical Greek, referring to the exertions made by them, but to the vexation which they felt, “being sore troubled,” R.V. (πόνος, dolor, Blass), cf. LXX, Eccles. x. 9, used of pain caused to the body, and 2 Macc. ii. 28, R. (A. al. ἀτ…

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Ver. 4. ἐγενήθη: ‘‘ came to be” R.V., only here in St. Luke, except in the quo- tation in i. 20 (see also vii. 13, D., and Blass in®—hellenistic,frequently in LXX; in N.T. cf. 1 Thess. ii. 14, Col. iv. 11 ; also Jos., Ant., x., 10, 2, Winer-Schmiedel, p. 108, ποίε).---ἀνδρῶν. This word here ap- pears to be used …

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5—8. 7. καὶ στήσαντες αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ µέσῳ, 125 ἐπυνθάνοντο, Ἐν ποίᾳ δυνάμει Α 3 αν. 3 2 4 ~ © NEL , Δ ἢ ἐν ποίῳ ὀνόματι ἐποιήσατε τοῦτο ὑμεῖς; 8. Τότε Πέτρος, πλησθεὶς Πνεύματος Αγίου, εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς, from the scribes of Galilee, but it is doubtful whether the words can bear this (see also Rendall, who favours…

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Ver. 8. πλησθεὶς πνεύ. ay.: the whole phrase is characteristic of St. Luke, who employs it in the Gospel 126 βύτεροι τοῦ Ισραήλ,! 9. εἰ ἡμεῖς σήμερον ἀνακρινόμεθα ἐπὶ εὐεργεσίᾳ ἀνθρώπου ἀσθενοῦς, ἐν τίνι οὗτος σέσωσται' ΙΟ. γνωστὸν ἔστω A A \ a abet: A πᾶσιν ὑμῖν καὶ παντὶ τῷ Aad Ισραήλ, ὅτι ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι ᾿Ιησοῦ…

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«9-12. νεκρῶν, ἐν τούτω οὗτος παρέστηκε» ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν ὑγιής. 127 11. οὗτός ἐστιν 6 λίθος 6 ἐξουθενηθεὶς ὑφ᾽ ὑμῶν τῶν οἰκοδομούντων, ὅ γενόμενος eis κεφαλὴν γωνίας. 12.1 καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν ἄλλω οὐδενὶ ἡ σωτηρία - 7 οὔτε γὰρ ὄνομά ἐστιν ἕτερον ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανὸν τὸ δεδοµένον ἐν ἀνθρώ- > 9 “exe a ε ~ ποις, ἐν ὁ δεῖ σ…

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Hebrew 13 elsewhere always refers not to the upper part of the building, but to the lower (Isa. xxviii. 16, Jer. li. 26, Job xxxviii. 6, 6 βαλὼν λίθον γωνιαῖογ, Delitzsch). Probably therefore the εχ- pression here refers to a foundation-stone at the base of the corner. On the occurrence of the phrase from Ps. cx…

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3 , , > ‘ 9 x µαζον, ἐπεγινωσκόν τε αὐτοὺς OTL σὺν 129 a 35 ο 8 a τῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ ἦσαν: 14. τὸν δὲ ἄνθρωπον βλέποντες σὺν αὐτοῖς ἑστῶτα τὸν τεθεραπευµένον, οὐδὲν holds office in the State, but as the Greeks held that without political life there was no true education of a man, it was not unnatural that ἰδιώτης shoul…

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In Codex Ὦ (so β) an attempt is appar- ently made to meet this difficulty by reading τινες δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπεγίνωσκον αὐτοὺς. Others have pointed out that the same word is used in iii. 10 of the beggar who sat for alms, and that here, as there, ἐπεγίν. implies something more than mere recognition (see especially L…

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εἶχον ἀντειπεῖν. 15. κελεύσαντες δὲ αὐτοὺς ἔξω τοῦ συνεδρίου ἀπελθεῖν, συνέβαλον πρὸς ἀλλήλους, 16. λέγοντες, Τί ποιήσομεν 5 τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τούτοις; ὅτι μὲν γὰρ γνωστὸν σημεῖον γέγονε δι αὐτῶν, πᾶσι τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν Ἱερουσαλὴμ davepdv,® καὶ οὐ δυνάµεθα ἀρνήσασθαι: 17. GAN’ ἵνα μὴ ἐπὶ πλεῖον διανεµηθῇ εἰς τὸν λαόν, …

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μηδενὶ ἀνθρώπων. 131 18.1 καὶ καλέσαντες αὐτούς, παρήγγειλαν αὐτοῖς x , S 2 ν ΄ . α αρ a> A τὸ καθόλου μὴ φθέγγεσθαι μηδὲ διδάσκειν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ. 10. ὅ δὲ Πέτρος καὶ ᾿Ιωάννης ἀποκριθέντες πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἶπον, Ei δίκαιόν ἐστιν ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὑμῶν ἀκούειν μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦ Θεοῦ, κρίνατε. 20. οὗ δυνάµεθα …

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Ver. 20. οὐ . . . μὴ: on the two negatives forming an affirmative cf. 1 Cor. xii. 15; Viteau, Le Grec du N. T., p- 220 (1893). Winer-Moulton, lv., 9, compares Aristoph., Ran., 42; see also Burton, N. T. Moods and Tenses, p. 184. Ver. 21. προσαπειλησάμενοι: ‘ when they had further threatened them ” R.V., or the …

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Ver. 23. τοὺς ἰδίους: not necessarily limited to their fellow-Apostles (so Meyer, Blass, Weiss), but as including the members of the Christian community (so Overbeck, Wendt, Hilgenfeld, Zockler), cf. xxiv. 23, John xiii. 1, 1 Tim. v. 8, and also of one’s fellow-countrymen, associates, John i. 11, 2 Macc. xii. 22…

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vi. το of God, and 2 Pet. ii. 1 of Christ (where the metaphor of the master and slave is retained), and see Jude ver. 4, R.V. (although the name may refer to God); and so in writings ascribed to men who may well have been present, and have taken part inthe Hymn. The word is also used of the gods ἵπ classical Gr…

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of Solomon. Thus the gathering together of the nations and their fruitless decrees. find their counterpart in the alliance of Herod and Pilate, and the hostile com- bination of Jew and Gentile against the holy Servant Jesus, the anointed of God, and against His followers; although the words of the Psalm and the …

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135 Ισραήλ, 28. ποιῆσαι ὅσα ἡ χείρ σου καὶ ἡ βουλή σου} προώρισε γενέσθαι. - A ~ 29. καὶ τὰ νῦν, Κύριε, ἔπιδε ἐπὶ τὰς ἀπειλὰς αὐτῶν, καὶ a , A δὸς τοῖς δούλοις σου μετὰ παῤῥησίας πάσης λαλεῖν τὸν λόγον σου, ~ a , A 3ο. ἐν τῷ τὴν χεῖρά σου ἐκτείνειν σε εἰς ἴασιν, καὶ σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα Ὑίνεσθαι διὰ τοῦ ὀνόματος …

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Ver. 30. ἐν τῷ κ.τ.λ., ili. 26: a He- braistic formula; for similar expres- sions used of God cf. Exodus vil. 5, Jeremiah xv. 6, Ezek. vi. 14, etc., most frequently in the act of punishment; but here the context shows that it is for healing, Luke v. 13, vi. 10; ‘* while thou stretchest forth thine hand ”’—the co…

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31—33. 32. TOY δὲ πλήθους τῶν πιστευσάντων FY ἡ καρδία καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ µία]: καὶ οὐδὲ εἷς τι τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτῷ ἔλεγεν ἴδιον εἶναι, ἀλλ᾽ ἦν αὐτοῖς ἅπαντα κοινά. 43. καὶ µεγάλη δυνάµει ἀπεδίδουν τὸ A co] , lol μαρτύριον ot ἀπόστολοι τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ, χάρις * After µια DE, Cypr., Amb., Zeno, insert και…

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118 τε µεγάλη ἦν ἐπὶ πάντας αὐτούς. Iv. 34. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐνδεής τις ὑπῆρχεν | a“ εἰ ών - - nm ἐν αὐτοῖς: ὅσοι γὰρ κτήτορες χωρίων ἢ οἰκιῶν ὑπῆρχον, πωλοῦντες ἔφερον τὰς τιμὰς τῶν πιπρασκοµένων, 35. καὶ ἐτίθουν παρὰ τοὺς πόδας τῶν ἀποστόλων: διεδίδοτο” δὲ ἑκάστῳ καθότι ἄν τις χρείαν εἶχεν. 1 τις υπηρχεν DEP, Chrys.…

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34—36. 36. Ιωσῆς 1 δὲ ὁ ἐπικληθεὶς Βαρνάβας ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων (5 ἐστι 139 µεθερμηνευόµενον, Yids παρακλήσεως), Λευΐτης, Κύπριος τῷ γένει, 1 ]ωσης P 1, 13, 31, Sah., Syr. Harcl., Chrys., Theophy., Meyer, Alford; lwond NABDE, Vulg., Boh., Syr. Pesh., Arm., Aeth., Epiph., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.—s…

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140 37. ὑπάρχοντος αὐτῷ ἀγροῦ,] πωλήσας ἤνεγκε τὸ χρῆμα, καὶ ἔθηκε παρὰ ” τοὺς πόδας τῶν ἀποστόλων. } aypov; D has χωριου, but aypos only here in Acts. For χωριον cf. iv. 34, v. 3, 8. 2 apa BP, Chrys., so W.H. (so Lach.); προς NE 15, 18, 37, so Tisch., Weiss, Wendt; cf. ver. 35 and v. 2. name βαρνεβοῦν, which D.…

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CHAPTER V.—Ver. 1. ᾽Ανὴρ δέ τις: in striking contrast to the unreserved self-sacrifice of Barnabas, St. Luke places the selfishness and hypocrisy of Ananias and Sapphira, It is in itself no small proof of the truth of the narrative, that the writer should not hesitate to introduce this episode side by side with …

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Ver. 4. οὐχὶ, ‘id quaerit quod sic esse nemo negat,” Grimm, ‘“ while itremained, did it not remain thine own?” R.V. Very frequent in Luke as compared with the other Evangelists, see also vii. 50. This rendering better retains the kind of play upon the word µένω, to which Weiss draws attention, and com- pares 1 …

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to be faint-hearted, to despond, to be dim. But as Blass points out it is used by Hippocrates; indeed it would seem that its use is almost altogether confined to medical writers (Hobart, Zahn). It is therefore a word which may probably be referred to St. Luke’s employment of medical terms; Hobart, Medical Lan- …

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143 6. ἀναστάντες δὲ ot 7. ᾿Ἐγένετο Ver. 6. ἀναστάντες, see on ii. 14.— of νεώτεροι: the fact that they are called simply νεανίσκοι in ver. 10 seems deci- sive against the view that reference is made to any definite order in the Church. Nor is it certain that we can see in the fulfilment of such duties by the …

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‘Ver. 7. ἐγένετο δὲ . . « καὶ, cf. for construction Luke ν. 1, 17, viii. I, 22, ix. 51, xiv. 1, etc. Hebraistic, if not strictly a Hebraism; on καί thus uniting two co-ordinate statements with ἐγένετο see Plummer’s valuable note, p. 45; St. Luke, first edition ; and on the use of καί see Simcox, Language of the …

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145 EGapav! πρὸς τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆς. 11. καὶ ἐγένετο φόβος µέγας ἐφ᾽ g ‘ > / Ἀ ας A , A ὅλην τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ ἐπὶ πάντας τοὺς ἀκούοντας ταῦτα. 12. Διὰ δὲ τῶν χειρῶν τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐγίνετο σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα > ~ ~ Lae Ne Αν ς x ot 9 ~ ~ ἐν τῷ λαῷ πολλά: (καὶ ἦσαν ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἅπαντες” ἐν τῇ στοᾷ Σολομῶντος: 13. τῶν δὲ…

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cipation, and that we cannot be sure that it was actually in use at this early date (Ecclesia, p. 49), but, as the same writer reminds us, our Lord’s saying to St. Peter, Matt. xvi. 18, must have had its igfluence upon the minds and teaching of the Apostles. Moreover, we can see a special fitness in the employme…

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Vv. 14. μᾶλλον δὲ προσετίθεντο πιστεύοντες τῷ Kupiw, πλήθη ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν:) 15. ὥστε κατὰ 1 τὰς πλατείας ἐκφέρειν τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς καὶ τιθέναι ἐπὶ κλινῶν καὶ κραββάτων, ἵνα ἐρχομένου Πέτρου κἂν ἡ σκιὰ ἐπισκιάσῃ τινὶ 1 κατα (τας) D*P 1, Chrys., Theoph., so Meyer; και εις τας $ABD*(E), Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weis…

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π 4—16. αὐτῶν. 147 16. συνήρχετο δὲ καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πέριξ πόλεων eis Ἱερουσαλήμ, Φέροντες ἀσθενεῖς καὶ ὀχλουμένους ὑπὸ πνευμάτων > , J 20 , a 1 ἀκαθάρτων, OLTLVES ε εραπευοντο απαντες. 1εις DEP demid., Arm., Chrys., so Meyer; om. ΑΒ vers., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt. twyto παντες; both verbs almost …

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Vv. 17. ᾽Αναστὰς] δὲ 6 ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ πάντες of σὺν αὐτῷ, ἡ οὖσα αἴρεσις τῶν Σαδδουκαίων, ἐπλήσθησαν ζήλου, 18. καὶ ἐπέβαλον τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀποστόλους, καὶ ἔθεντο αὐτοὺς ἐν τηρήσει 1 αναστας, Par. reads Αννας, “cod. Dubl. αρ. Berger”’ (Blass); so also Prov. after αναστ. 5<—Blass follows Par. in B. it is…

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Ver. 18. ἐπέβαλον τὰς χεῖρας: a phrase used twice in St. Luke’s Gospel, and three times in the Acts, cf. Gen. xxi. 12. Cf. Hebrew bys aah ro, —tv τηρήσει δηµοσίᾳ, “in public ward,” R.V. Syp. used here as an adjective, only found in N.T. in Acts, in the three other passages used as an adverb, xvi. 37, Xvili. 28,…

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Ver. 20. Πορεύεσθε: characteristic of St. Luke both in Gospel and Acts. The word appears here in Acts for the first time, and it is found in St. Luke’s Gos- pel about fifty times, and in this book nearly forty (Friedrich, Lekebusch).— σταθέντες, ii. 14, on this pictorial use ot the word, see Page’s note, and Fri…

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21—25. εἰς τὸ δεσµωτήριον, ἀχθῆναι αὐτούς. γενόµενοι | 151 22. ot δὲ ὑπηρέται παρα- οὐχ εὗρον αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ φυλακῇ ’ ἀναστρέψαντες δὲ ἀπήγγειλαν, λέγοντες, 23. Ὅτι τὸ μὲν δεσµωτήριον εὕρομεν κεκλεισ- µένον ἐν πάση ἀσφαλεία, καὶ τοὺς φύλακας ἔξω2 ἑστῶτας πρὸ τῶν θυρῶν: ἀνοίξαντες δέ, ἔσω οὐδένα εὕρομεν. 24. ὡς δ…

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Ver. 25. tod . . . εἰσὶν: on the characteristic use of the verb εἶναι after ἰδοὺ or ἴδε in St. Luke’s writings as compared with other N.T. writers and the LXX, see Viteau, Le Grec du N.T.., Pp. 200, 205 (1896); cf. ii. 7, xvi. 1, and Luke ti. 25, vii. 25, ΧΙ. 41, εἴς.---παραγεν., see on ver. 22.- ἑστῶτες, cf. ve…

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Ver. 28. παραγγελίᾳ παρηγγείλαµεν: for the Hebraism ef. iv. 17, “ we straitly,”” etc., R.V. (and A.V.), expressing inten- sity — ‘‘commanding, we commanded you,” Wycliffe. The T.R. makes the clause a question, commencing with ov, but the evidence is too strong against it, evidently it was occasioned by the ἐπηρώ…

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Ver. 30. & Θεὸς τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, cf. ΠΠ. 13. St. Peter, as before, will not dissociate himself from the common. wealth of Israel, or his hearers from the message and works of the Christ.— ἤγειρεν: does this word refer to the Resurrection, or to the sending of Jesus into this world, and His raising up by God as…

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γ. κρεµάσαντες ἐπὶ ξύλου": 31. τοῦτον ὅ Θεὸς ἀρχηγὸν καὶ σωτῆρα ὕψωσε τῇ δεξιᾷ αὐτοῦ, δοῦναι µετάνοιαν τῷ ᾿Ισραὴλ καὶ ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν. ge. καὶ pets ἐσμεν αὐτοῦ pdprupes? τῶν ῥημάτων τούτων, καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα δὲ τὸ Άγιον, ὃ ἔδωκεν ὁ Θεὸς τοῖς πειθαρ- A > ~ χουσιν αυτῷῳ. 1 εσμεν αντου µαρτυρες Γ΄ΕΗ Ε, Syr. Harcl., A…

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Ver. 32. ‘And we are witnesses of these things,” R.V. (W.H.), but in mar- gin, ‘witnesses in Him,” ἐν αὐτῷ (cf. Luke xxiv. 47) ; “nos in eo testes sumus,”’ Iren., see also above critical notes. For an explanation of the reading in Τ.Ε. and the two genitives, see Simcox,. Language of the N. T., p. 84, note, and …

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Ver. 33. διεπρίοντο: lit., were sawn asunder (in heart), dissecabantur, Vul- gate (cf. use of findo in Persius and Plautus), cf. vii. 54 (Luke ii. 35), Euseb., H. E., v.,1., 6 (see Grimm, sub v.). The word is used in its literal sense in Aristoph., Equites, 768, Plato, Conv., Ρ. 193 @, and once in the LXX,1 Chro…

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Vv. νοµοδιδάσκαλος τίµιος παντὶ τῷ λαῷ, ἐκέλευσεν ἔξω βραχύ τι τοὺς ἀποστόλους ! ποιῆσαι, 35. εἶπέ τε πρὸς αὐτούς,” "Ανδρες Ισραηλῖται, , ς ον Φιν ~ 2 6 , , ιά , , προσέχετε εαυτοις επι τοις αν Pwo TOUTOLS TL μέλλετε πρασσειν. πι HP (put by many before ποιησαι); om. SABDE, vers., Chrys., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., We…

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35---36. 57 36. πρὸ γὰρ τούτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀνέστη Θευδᾶς, λέγων εἶναί τινα ἑαυτόν,! ᾧ προσεκολλήθη ? ἀριθμὸς ἀνδρῶν ὡᾠσεὶ τετρακοσίων: ὃς ἀνηρέθη.ὃ καὶ πάντες ὅσοι ἐπείθοντο αὐτῷ διελύθησαν καὶ ἐγένοντο 1 εαντον NA*BCHP, Vulg., Sah., Boh., Syr. Harcl., Arm., Eus., Chrys., so Tisch., W.H., R.V.; εαντον peyav (ΟΥ µ…

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Ver. 36. πρὸ γὰρ τούτων τῶν ἡμερῶν: Gamaliel appeals to the experience of the past—the phrase is placed first with emphasis, cf. xxi. 38; on St. Luke’s fondness for phrases with ἡμέρα see above, and Friedrich, pp. 9, 89. But whilst Gamaliel appeals to the past, his appeal is not to a remote but to a near past w…

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37—38. + - , a“ , κἀκεῖνος ἀπώλετο, καὶ πάντες ὅσοι ἐπείθοντο αὐτῷ διεσκορπίσθησαν. s A ~ ‘ 38. καὶ τὰ νῦν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἀπόστητε ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τούτων, καὶ have held that it is by no means impos- sible that even here he may have been (cf. Alford, Rendall, Belser, and com- pare the remarks of Zahn, ubi supra), …

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As we consider the characteristics of such men as Theudas and Judas, Τε 15 difficult to suppose that the age which produced them could have produced the Messiah of the Gospels. He is, in truth, the Anti-Christ of Judaism. Instead of giving Himself out to be somebody, Jesus is meek and lowly of heart ; instead o…

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from Hebrew ΓΠΣ, cf xx. 30, Luke ix. 23, xxi. 8. Blass, Grammatik des N. G., Ρ. 126.—S8teoxoptichncayr : it is true that the sect revived under the name of Zealots, and played an active part in the Jewish wars, but there is no reason for charging St. Luke’s account with in- accuracy (so Overbeck following De We…

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11 162 A A » Ψ a? a 4 > > , ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ ᾿Ιησοῦ, καὶ ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς. 41. Οἱ μὲν οὖν } ἐπορεύοντο χαίροντεδ ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ συνεδρίου, ὅτι ὑπὲρ τοῦ 1 µεν ονν (Flor. δε), D, Par. add αποστολοι, so Hilg.; Flor. adds απολνθεντες, cf. iv. 23; Blass in B combines both. tendency to mildness and liberality ; an…

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163 ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ 1 κατηδιώθησαν ἀτιμασθῆναι: 42. πᾶσάν τε ἡμέραν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ καὶ Kat’ οἶκον οὐκ ἐπαύοντο διδάσκοντες καὶ εὐαγγελιζόμενοι ᾿Ιησοῦν τὸν Χριστόν. ὰ 1 After ονοµατος a few cursives read avrov; but om. R.V., Weiss, Wendt. SABCDHP, Tisch., W.H., 3 Flor., Gig. add Fesu, Par. adds Christi (see for variat…

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164 Vi... VI. 1. ΕΝ δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις ταύταις πληθυνόντων τῶν μαθητῶν,. ἐγένετο γογγυσμὸς τῶν Ἑλληνιστῶν πρὸς τοὺς Ἑβραίους, ὅτι παρε- message to their fellow - countrymen. This is allowed and insisted upon by Schwegler, Renan, and others, but in the statement what an intimate knowledge ‘of the life of Jesus is p…

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‘he would therefore address not as µαθηταί but as ἀδελφοί and ἅγιοι They were still µαθηταί, yet not of man but of the Lord (only in one passage in Acts, and that a doubtful one, ix. 43, is the word µαθηταί or μαθητής used of any human teacher), and the word was still true of them with that significance, and is …

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166 θεωροῦντο ἐν τῇ διακονίᾳ τῇ καθηµερινῇ at χῆραι αὐτῶν.ϊ 2. προσ- καλεσάμενοι δὲ” οἱ δώδεκα τὸ πλῆθος τῶν μαθητῶν, εἶπον, Οὐκ 1 At end D adds εν ty διακονιᾳ των Έβραιων, according to Flor. οτι εν τ. καθ. διακ. αι x. των EAX. υπο των διακονων των Εβρ. παρεθεωρ. Blass in β reads simply after αι x. αυτων the wor…

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ae ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ of these three in an incident which he and St. Luke alone record, Mark xii. 42, 43, and the other time in a passage also peculiar to him and St. Luke (if we are justified in omitting Matt. xxiii. 14), viz., Mark xii. 40. Ver. 2. προσκαλεσάμενοι δὲ of δώ- Sexa: whatever may have been the irr…

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168 ἀρεστόν ἐστιν ἡμᾶς, καταλείψαντας τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ, διακονεῖν τραπέζαις. those to whom it was done’. But τραπέζαις presents a further difficulty ; does it refer to the tables of exchange for money, a rendering which claims sup- port from Matt. xxi. 12, xxv. 27, Luke xix. 23, John ii. 15, or to tables for …

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15931 M2 TS, collectors of alms, but these officers would rather present a parallel to the tax-gatherers than to those who ministered to the poor (see “Deacon”’ in Hastings, B.D.). Whilst, however, these analogies in Jewish offices fail us, we stand on much higher ground if we may suppose that as our Lord’s cho…

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