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The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 2

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- » Be in various senses.—apfdpevos, see on i. 22, cf. Luke xxiv. 27.-- ταύτης, see above on ver. 3...--εὐηγγελίσατο: used with an accusative both of the person ad- dressed, as in vv. 25, 40, and of the message delivered, cf. Luke viii. 1, Acts V. 42, Vili. 4, 12, etc., but when the two are combined the person …

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Ver. 38. εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ: even if the words are rendered ‘unto the water” (Plumptre), the context ἀνέβησαν ἐκ in- dicates that the baptism was by immer- sion, and there can be no doubt that this was the custom in the early Church. St. Paul’s symbolic language in Rom. vi. 4, Col. ii. 12, certainly seems to presuppose…

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said of Enoch ἡρπάγη. Both in classical Greek and in the LXX the word implies forcible or sudden seizure (John vi. 15). ---καὶ οὐκ εἶδεν . . . ἐπορεύετο γὰρ κ.τ.λ. If these two clauses are closely connected as by R.V., they do not simply state that the eunuch went on his own way (Rendall), (in contrast with Phil…

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VIII. 4ο.. 40. Φίλιππος δὲ εὑρέθη cis "Αἴωτον: καὶ διερχόµενος εὐηγγελίζετο τὰς πόλεις πάσας, ἕως τοῦ ἐλθε-ν αὐτὸν eis Καισάρειαν.ὶ 1 Καισαρειαν BCHLP, so Blass, Weiss, Hilg.; Καισαριαν ΝΝΑΕ 61, so T sch., W.H. (see W.H., App., p. 160, and Winer-Schmiedel, p. 45). cf. xxi. 13; Or, aS εἷς means more than év, impl…

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τς ο 229 IX. 1. Ὁ AE Σαῦλος ἔτι ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς καὶ Φόνου εἰς τοὺς μαθητὰς τοῦ Κυρίου, προσελθὼν τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ, 2. ἠτήσατο παρ αὐτοῦ 3 4 3 x A AY , 5 9 -/ ἐπιστολὰς εἰς Δαμασκὸν πρὸς τὰς συναγωγάς, οπως ἐάν τινας ευρῃ τῆς ὁδοῦ ὄντας ἄνδρας τε καὶ Ὑγυναῖκας, δεδεµένους ἀγάγῃη εἰς habitants, twenty thousand in numbe…

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230 “Ἱερουσαλήμ. 3. ἐν δὲ τῷ πορεύεσθαι, ἐγένετο αὐτὸν ἐγγίζειν τῇ = , a - a Δαμασκῷ, καὶ ἐξαίφνης } περιήστραψεν αὐτὸν φῶς ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ - 1 εξαιφνης- ἵπ NBICE 13 εξεφνης, so W.H., but see xxii. 6.; see Winer- Schmiedel, p. 47. a commercial point of view Damascus has been called the meeting-place and mart o…

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7 Sar’ 231 ‘ ος 8 αι τν >A 4. καὶ πεσὼν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, ἤκουσε φωνὴν λέγουσαν αὐτῷ, Σαούλ, Σοούλ, τί µε διώκεις; 5. εἶπε δέ, Τίς ef, Κύριε”; ὁ δὲ Κύριος εἶπεν, 1 After γην Par. (Flor.) add ‘“‘cum magna mentis alienatione”; peta µεγαλης εκστασεως, sO Blass; cf. rendering of εκστασις in x. 1ο, Hilg. adds the words …

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Ver. 4. καὶ πεσὼν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, cf. xxli. 7, both expressions show the over- whelming impression made by the sudden bright light. In xxvi. 14 all fall to the ground, but there is no contradiction with ix. 7, see below on verse 7. Lewin, Farrar (so Hackett, and some early interpreters) 419 ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ Ix, ᾿…

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-6---δ. 233 Κύριος πρὸς αὐτόν, ᾿Ανάστηθι καὶ εἴσελθε εἰς τὴν πόλιν, καὶ λαληθή- , - - σεταί σοι τί σε δεῖ ποιεῖν. εἰστήκεισαν évveot,! 7. οἱ δὲ ἄνδρες of συνοδεύοντες αὐτῷ ~ t ἀκούοντες μὲν τῆς Hovis, µηδένα δὲ θεωροῦντες. 8. ἠγέρθη δὲ ὁ Σαῦλος ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς: ἀνεφωγμένων δὲ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν > A 39 , ” ~ A DI > , >…

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Ver. 8. ἀνεφγμένων ; see critical notes. —otdéva ἔβλεπε: his eyes, which he had closed mechanically, as he fell over- whelmed with the dazzling brightness of the light, and of the appearance of Jesus, he now opens, but only to find that he saw nothing (οὐδέν) (see critical note)—he had become blind (so Weiss an…

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9. καὶ ἦν ἡμέρας τρεῖς μὴ βλέπων, καὶ οὐκ ἔφαγεν 5. 4 AY 3 ϱ ον ρ 3 , 10. Ἡν δέ τις μαθητὴς ἐν Δαμασκῷ ὀνόματι Avavias, καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ Κύριος ἐν ὁράματι, “Avavia. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν. ᾿Ιδοὺ and adds that in any case it is suggestive that Paul, Gal. iv. 15, seems, at least in later days, to have had a severe ailmen…

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Q—I2. ἐγώ, Κύριε. 11. 6 δὲ Κύριος πρὸς αὐτόν, ᾽Αναστὰς ] πορεύθητι ἐπὶ τὴν ῥύμην τὴν καλουμένην Εὐθεῖαν, καὶ ζήτησον ἐν οἰκίᾳ Ιούδα Σαῦλον ὀνόματι,” Ταρσέα. idod γὰρ προσεύχεται, 12.8 καὶ εἶδεν ἐν 3] , A A ὁράματι ἄνδρα ὀνόματι Avaviay εἰσελθόντα καὶ ἐπιθέντα αὐτῷ χεῖρα, 1 Αναστας SACEHLP, Vulg. (am. demid. tol.)…

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Ver. 12. ἐν ὁράματι, see critical notes. ---ἄνδρα *A. ὀνόμ.: the words would certainly indicate, as Wendt points out (seventh edition, not eighth), that Saul was previously unacquainted with Ana- nias. Jesus communicates the contents of the vision, and speaks as it were frorn the standpoint of Saul (see Felten’s…

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Ver. 16. ἐγὼ yap: he is a chosen vessel unto me, and therefore ὑποδ. Wendt disagrees with Meyer, who finds the showing in the experiences of the sufferings (so Hackett and Felten), and I3—I9. ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ 237 16. ἐγὼ γὰρ ὑποδείξω αὐτῷ, ὅσα δεῖ αὐτὸν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματός µου παθεῖν. 17-1 ᾽Απῆλθε δὲ ᾽Ανανίας κα…

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~ 238 ἼΡρΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ IX, ~ ~ ς , ‘ , “A ~ Δαμασκῷ μαθητῶν ἡμέρας τινάς; 20.1 kal εὐθέως ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς , 5 , ρα 5 ϱ > ς cy a a Py A ἐκήρυσσε τον Χριστον, οτι OUTOS ἐστιν O υιος TOU Θεοῦ. 21. ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες ol ἀκούοντες καὶ ἔλεγον, Οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ πορθήσας ἐν c a ‘ > , a ” A 4 ha > ~ ἱερουσαλὴμ, τ…

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Ver. 22. évedvvapotro: only used here by St. Luke, and elsewhere only by St. Paul (five or six times), and always of religious and spiritual strength; used also three times in the LXX; twice with reference to the power of the Spirit, Judg. vi. 34, 1 Chron. xii. 18; in Psalm li. 7, perhaps the simple verb Suvapéw…

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240 Πραξεις Αποστολων Ix,

Ver. 24. ἐπιβουλὴ: “plot”; N.T. only used in Acts; in three other passages, xX, 3, IQ, xxiii. 3ο. It is used in the same sense in LXX, Esth. ii. 22 (for other instances of the word see H. and R.), and frequently in classical Greek.— παρετήρουν: if we follow R.V., see critical notes, we have the middle for the a…

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240 Πραξεις Αποστολων Ix,

who favours an earlier chronology, and dates Paul’s conversion in 31 or 32 A.D., contends that the flight from Damascus may have occurred as well in the year 35, κ. in the reign of Tiberius, as in 38, when no change had taken place in the status of Damascus ; the city was subject to Rome, but Aretas may have had…

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241 26. Παραγενόµενος δὲ 6 Σαῦλος eis Ἱερου- σαλήμ, ἐπειρᾶτο 1 κολλᾶσθαι τοῖς μαθηταῖς]: καὶ πάντες ἐφοβοῦντο i ae Pp ων ‘ , g > \ θ [ή Ε συτον, μη TLOTEVOVTES οτι εστι µαονητης 27. Βαρνάβας δὲ ἐπιλαβόμενος αὐτόν, ἤγαγε πρὸς τοὺς ἀποστόλους, καὶ διηγήσατο αὐτοῖς πῶς ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ εἶδε τὸν Κύριον, καὶ ὅτι ἐλάλησεν α…

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Ver. 27. Βαρνάβας, cf. iv. 36. Saul and Barnabas may have been previously acquainted, see J. Lightfoot, Hor. Heb., and note on iv. 36. St. Chrysostom, Hom., xxi. (so Theophylact and Oecu- menius), sees here a proof of the kindly τοι. IL i6 ~ 3 a 3 ae a > 2 a> a πῶς ἐν Δαμασκῷ ἐπαβῥησιάσατο ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ ᾿Ιη…

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Ver. 29. συνεζήτει, cf. vi. Ο.---πρὸς τοὺς Ἓλλην., of whom Saul himself was one; see critical notes. Saul’s visit was a short one (Gal. i. 18), and although we must not limit his opportuni- ties of disputation to the two Sabbaths with Blass (note the two imperfects), yet it is evident that the Hellenists were at…

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~ 244 ἐξαπέστειλαν αὐτὸν ets Ταρσόν. ine 31. At μὲν οὖν éxxdAnotar! καθ᾽ ὅλης τῆς Ἰουδαίας καὶ Γαλιλαίας ” καὶ Σαµαρείας εἶχον εἰρήνην, οἰκοδομού- µεναι καὶ πορευόµεναι τῷ φόβῳ τοῦ Κυρίου, καὶ ~ τη παρακλήσει τοῦ. "Αγίου Πνεύματος ἐπληθύνοντο. 1αι εκκλησιαι; but sing. η εκκλη. NABC, Vulg., Syr. Pesh., Sah., …

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Vv. 32-35. Healing of Aeneas.—Ver. 32. ἐγένετο δὲ Π. διερχ.: on the formula and its frequency in Luke see Friedrich, Ρ. 13, and above on p. 124. We have here a note of what may fairly be κα παν 245 32. EFENETO δὲ Πέτρον διερχόµενον διὰ πάντων,λ κατελθεῖν καὶ ‘ ο ών ‘ a , πρὸς τοὺς ἁγίους τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Λύδδ…

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246 κραββάτω, ὃς ἦν παραλελυµένος. 4 ” 34. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ Πέτρος, Αἰνέα, ἴᾶταί σε “Ingots 6 Χριστός: ἀνάστηθι καὶ στρῶσον σεαυτῷ. καὶ εὐθέως ἀνέστη: 35. καὶ εἶδον αὐτὸν πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες Λύδδαν καὶ τὸν Edpwva,) οἵτινες ἐπέστρεψαν ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον. 36. Ev “idan δέ τις ἦν μαθήτρια ὀνόματι Ταβιθά,” 7 διερµηνευ…

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Vv. 36-43. Tabitha raised from the dead.—Ver. 36. ᾿Ἱόππῃ, on the spelling, Winer-Schmiedel, p. 56; and below on νετ. 43.—paytpia: only here in N.T.: the word occurs in the Apocryphal Gospel of Peter: Mary Magdaleneis described as µ. τοῦ Κυρίου : it is also used by Diod., li., 52; Diog. Laert., iv., 2; vill., 2. …

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26; not so used in classical writers (Plummer). Ver. 39. It is not said that they sent for St. Peter to work a miracle, but his near presence at Lydda would naturally make them turn to him in atime of sorrow. 248 ἱμάτια ! ὅσα ἐποίει wet αὐτῶν οὖσα ἡ Δορκάς. 40. ἐκβαλὼν δὲ ἔξω πάντας ὁ Πέτρος, θεὶς τὰ Ὑόνατα προ…

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40-43 2 ~ - αὐτῆς: καὶ ἰδοῦσα τὸν Πέτρον, ἀνεκάθισε. 249 41. δοὺς δὲ αὐτῇ χεῖρα, 2 ή > LA ή 4 » ς [ή ‘ 3 [ή ΄ ἀνέστησεν αὐτήν . φωνήσας δὲ τοὺς ἁγιους καὶ τὰς χήρας, παρεστησεν ο & gan αὐτὴν Looay. 42. γνωστὸν δὲ ἐγένετο καθ ὅλης τῆς Ἰόππης,! , 43. kal πολλοὶ ἐπίστευσαν ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον" ἐγένετο δὲ ἡμέρας ς 9…

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Simon that the historian writes: ‘“‘ With © all his glory he took Joppa for an haven, and made an entrance to the isles of the sea” 1 Macc. xiv. 5 (about 144 B.c.). The Judaising of the city was the natural result of the Maccabean occupation, al- though the Syrians twice retook Joppa, and twice Hyrcanus regained…

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lent of ja ΤΕ, xxiv. 16, xxvi. 7 (2), righteous, upright, cf. also Prov. xii. +12, once as an equivalent of "7), liberal, generous, see on viii. 2 above ; frequent in Ecclus. and Macc., see also Trench, N.T. Synonyms, i., p. 196. Taken by itself the word might denote goodness suchas might characterise a Gentile,…

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Ver. 3. εἶδεν: there is no ground for explaining away the force of the words by assuming that Cornelius had formerly a longing to see Peter. — φανερῶς: “openly,” R.V.; manifeste, Vulgate. The words plainly are meant to exclude any illusion of the senses, not in a trance as in νετ. 10, cf. xxii. 17; only here in …

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Ver. 5. µετάπεμψαι: middle, his mes sengers were to perform his wishes; only in Acts in N.T., where it occurs nine times, but found twice in LXX and in Maccabees; so too mostly in the middle in classical writers, although the active is also found in same sense.—Z{peva (twa), see critical notes; as unknown to Co…

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Ver. ΙΟ. πρόσπεινος: only here, not found in LXX or classical Greek, pro- bably intensive force in πρός, see Grimm- Thayer, sub v., although not in R.V.— ἤθελε γεύσασθαι: there is no mention of any long period of previous fasting, as if that would account for the vision; Peter was about to partake of his ordin- …

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Ver. 14. Μηδαμῶς: absit (LXX for moon), 1 Sam. xx. 2, xxii. 15 (Weiss). ---Κύριε: Weiss refers to i. 24, and takes it as meaning Jehovah, but others refer the expression here to Christ; the next verse shows us that there was still the same element of self-will in the Apostle which had misled the Peter of the Gos…

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izZ—2?. 255 17. Ὡς δὲ ἐν ἑαυτῷ ! διηπόρει 6 Πέτρος, τί ἂν ein τὸ ὅραμα ὃ Eide, καὶ ἰδού, οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ ἀπεσταλμένοι ἀπὸ τοῦ Κορνηλίου, διερωτήσαντες τὴν οἰκίαν Σίμωνος, ἐπέστησαν ἐπὶ τὸν πυλῶνα: 18. καὶ φωνήσαντες το. περὶ τοῦ ὁράματος, εἶπεν αὐτῷ τὸ ἐπυνθάνοντο, εἰ Σίμων ὁ ἐπικαλούμενος Πέτρος ἐνθάδε ξενίζεται. …

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Acts), but evox. ‘am. Ney.” in N.T.

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22—20. a # , , ε a τοὺς συγγενεῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς ἀναγκαίους φίλους. 25.1 Ὡς δὲ ἐγένετο εἰσελθεῖν τὸν Πέτρον, συναντήσας αὐτῷ ὁ Κορνήλιος, πεσὼν ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας προσεκύνησεν. 26. ὁ δὲ Πέτρος αὐτὸν ἤγειρε λέγων, ᾿Ανάστηθι”. κἀγὼ αὐτὸς ἄνθρωπός εἶἰμι. 27. καὶ ,συνομιλῶν αὐτῷ, εἰσῆλθε, καὶ εὑρίσκει συνεληλυθότας πολλο…

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Theologie, p. 68; so too Jos., c. Apion, ii., 28, 29, 36; Juvenal, xiv., 103; Tacitus, Hist., ν., 5.--κολλᾶσθαι, see on v. 13 and Lightfoot, Hor. Heb., in Ίοεο.---προσέρ- χεσθαι: objected to by Zeller and Over- beck, because we know of instances where Jews went without scruple into the houses of Gentiles (cf. Jo…

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Ver. 31. εἰσηκούσθη: perhaps “‘ was heard” or “' has been heard” is best (see Rendall and Hackett). «poo. may refer to his present prayer, as it is in the singular, but the burden of all his past prayers had doubtless been the same, cf. ver. 33 for God’s guidance into truth.— ἐμνήσθησαν, cf. LXX, Ps. xix. 3, Eze…

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259 34. ᾿Ανοίξας δὲ Πέτρος τὸ στόµα εἶπεν, Ἐπ᾽ ἀληθείας καταλαμβά- νοµαι, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι προσωπολήπτης 6 Θεός, 35. GAN’ ἐν παντὶ ἔθνει ὁ φοβούμενος αὐτὸν καὶ ἐργαζόμενος δικαιοσύνην δεκτὸς αὐτῷ ἐστι. 36. τὸν λόγον ὃν] ἀπέστειλε τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραήλ, εὐαγγελιζόμενος εἰρήνην διὰ ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ, (οὗτός ἐστι πάντων Κύριος;…

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260 τῆς Γαλιλαίας, μετὰ τὸ βάπτισμα ὃ ἐκήρυξεν Ἰωάννης: 38. ᾿Ιησοῦν' τὸν ἀπὸ Ναζαρέτ, ὡς ἔχρισεν αὐτὸν ὁ Θεὸς Πνεύματι “Ayiw καὶ δυνάµει, ὃς διῆλθεν εὐεργετῶν καὶ ἰώμενος πάντας τοὺς καταδυνα- στευοµένους ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου, ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ἦν pet αὐτοῦ: 39. καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν μάρτυρες πάντων Gv ἐποίησεν ἐν τε τῇ χώρᾳ τῶν …

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Ver. 40. ἐν τῇτ. ἡμ.: Only alluded to herein Acts, but a positive testimony from St. Peter to the resurrection appearances on the third day, 1 Cor. xv. 4; the expression is specially emphasised by St. Luke in his Gospel, where it occurs some six Εἴπιες.---ἐμφανῆ yev.: a phrase only found here and in Rom. x. 20, …

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Luke; an instance where D seems to be a reminiscence of i. 2.

Blass brackets, see below. τῳ haw om. Par., αντος but ουτος BCDE, Syrr. P. and H., Sah., Boh., Lach., W.H., Hilg., Wendt, Weiss, R.V.; Tisch. and Meyer follow ΝΑΗΡ 61, Vulg., Aeth., Iren., Chrys., and read αντος, see Wendt’s note in 1899, and also former edit. in favour of οντος. Φεπεπεσε NBEHLP; all edd. ‘Tf ev…

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Χ. 45---4δ. 45. καὶ ἐξέστησαν ot ἐκ περιτομῆς. πιστοὶ Scot! συνῆλθον τῷ Πέτρῳ, ὅτι καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη ἡ δωρεὰ τοῦ "Ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἐκκέχυται" 46. ἤκουον γὰρ αὐτῶν λαλούντων γλώσσαις;” καὶ µεγαλυνόντων τὸν Θεόν. 47. τότε ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Πέτρος, Μήτι τὸ ὕδωρ κωλῦσαι δύναταί τις τοῦ μὴ βαπτισθῆναι τούτους, οἵτινες τὸ Πνεῦμ…

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CHAPTER XI.—Ver. 1. For Western readings see critical ποτῖοςβ.- κατὰ τὴν ΧΙ. ἐ--» ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ 263 ΧΙ. 1. ἨΚΟΥΣΑΝ δὲ οἱ ἀπόστολοι καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ot ὄντες κατὰ τὴν Ιουδαία», ὅτι καὶ τὰ ἔθνη ἐδέξαντο τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ. 2.! καὶ ὅτε ἀνέβη Πέτρος eis Ἱεροσόλυμα, διεκρίνοντο πρὸς αὐτὸν οἱ ἐκ περιτομῆς, λέγοντες, …

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Ver. 4. apg δὲ ὁ M. ‘But Peter began, and expounded the matter”: ἀρξ. may be pleonastic, i. 4, cf. καθεξῆς, or may be used graphically, or because the reproaches of οἱ ἐκ περιτ. gave the first incentive to St. Peter’s τεοῖῖα].---καθ. only in Luke, Gospel and Acts, see iii. 24.---ἐξετίθετο, xviil. 26, xxviii. 23,…

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265 ἀδελφοὶ οὗτοι, καὶ εἰσήλθομεν εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ ἀνδρός, 13. ἀπήγγειλέ τε ἡμῖν πῶς εἶδε τὸν ἄγγελον ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ σταθέντα καὶ εἰπόντα αὐτῷ ᾿Απόστειλον εἰς ᾿Ιόππην ἄνδρας, καὶ µετάπεμψαι Σίμωνα τὸν ἐπικαλούμενον Πέτρον, 14. ὃς λαλήσει ῥήματα πρὸς σέ, ἐν οἷς σωθήσῃ σὺ καὶ Tas ὁ οἶκός σου: 15. ἐν δὲ τῷ ἄρξασθα…

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266 πα, 19. ΟΙ μὲν οὖν διασπαρέντες ἀπὸ τῆς θλίψεως τῆς γενομένης ἐπὶ Στεφάνω.} διῆλθον ἕως Φοινίκης καὶ Κύπρου καὶ ᾽Αντιοχείας, μηδενὶ λαλοῦντες τὸν λόγον εἰ μὴ µόνον Ιουδαίοι. 20. ἦσαν δέ τινες lol A ~ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες Κύπριοι καὶ Κυρηναῖοι, οἵτινες εἰσελθόντες eis ᾽Αντιόχειαν ἐλάλουν πρὸς τοὺς Ἑλληνιστάς,” εὐαγ…

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Κύριον ᾿Ιησοῦν. 21. καὶ ἣν χεὶρ Κυρίου pet αὐτῶν: πολύς τε ἀριθμὸς πιστεύσας ἐπέστρεψεν ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον. 22. Ἠκούσθη δὲ ὁ λόγος εἰς τὰ Gta τῆς ἐκκλησίας τῆς ἐν ἹἹεροσολύμοις περὶ αὐτῶν: καὶ ἐξαπέστειλαν Βαρνάβαν διελθεῖν ] ἕως Αντιοχείας. 23. ὃς παρα- γενόμενος καὶ ἰδὼν τὴν χάριν 3 τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐχάρη, καὶ παρεκάλει πάντ…

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Ver. 25. Luke gives no reason why Barnabas goes to seek Saul, but Barnabas who had already vouched for Saul’s sin- cerity before the Church of Jerusalem, ix. 27, could scarcely be ignorant that the sphere of his friend’s future work was to be the Gentile world. In ix. 30 Saul was sent away to Tarsus, and now Bar…

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26—28. ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ 269 27. Ἐν ταύταις δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις κατῆλθον 28. ἀναστὰς δὲ εἲς ἐξ μαθητὰς Χριστιανούς. ἀπὸ Ἱεροσολύμων προφῆται eis ᾽Αντιόχειαν.} 1 At end of verse and commencement of νετ. 28 we have the remarkable reading in B: ην δε πολλη αγαλλιασις. συνεστραµµενων δε ημων εφη εις εξ αντων, so D, Aug.…

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270 ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ ΧΙ. αὐτῶν, ὀνόματι “AyaBos, ἐσήμανε] διὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος, λιμὸν µέγαν 3 µέλλειν ἔσεσθαι ἐφ᾽ ὅλην τὴν οἰκουμένην: ὅστις καὶ ἐγένετο ἐπὶ Κλαυδίου 5 Καίσαρος. 20. τῶν δὲ μαθητῶν ΄ καθὼς ηὐπορεῖτό τις, 1 εσηµανε NAEHLP, most verss., 80 Tisch., W.H. marg.; but B, d, Vulg., Chron., Aug., so Lach., W.…

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29—30. o 5 J Tyo 3 ΄ , a 39 ὠρισαν εκαστος αύτων ELS διακονίαν πέµψαι τοις κατοικοῦσιν ἐν τῇ ᾿Ιουδαίᾳ ἀδελφοῖς: 30. ὃ καὶ ἐποίησαν, ἀποστείλαντες πρὸς τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους διὰ χειρὸς Βαρνάβα καὶ Σαύλου. say, µ. S., Ῥ. 52; Baumgarten (Alford, in loco).—eis διακονίαν: ‘for a ministry,” R.V. margin, cf. Rom. xv. 31, 2…

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- 272 XII. τ. KAT’ ἐκεῖνον δὲ τὸν καιρὸν ἐπέβαλεν Ηρώδης ὁ βασιλεὺς a a ~ [ή ~ Ν [ο 5 [ή 1 τὰς χεῖρας κακῶσαί τινας τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐκκλησίας. ἸΙάκωβον τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἰωάννου µαχαίρᾳ. 2. ἄνεῖλε δὲ 4 > a a > , 3. καὶ ἰδὼν ὅτι ἀρεστόν ἐστι τοῖς ἸΙουδαίοις, προσέθετο συλλαβεῖν Kai Πέτρον: (ἦσαν δὲ 1 After εκκλησιας D, …

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Ver. 2. ἀνεῖλε, characteristic word, see On ν. 33.--Ιάκωβον τὸν a. Ἰ.: St. Chrysostom reminds us of our Lord’s prophecy in Mark x. 38 ff. (Matt. xx. 23), distinguished thus from the James of i. 13. Possibly his prominent position, and his characteristic nature 4s a son of Thunder marked him out as an early vict…

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Ver. 5. ὁ μὲν οὖν .. . προσευχὴ δὲ: both A. and R.V. regard προσ. δὲ in the same verse as the antithesis, but see Page’s note, where the antithesis is found in ver. 6, ὅτε δέ. If we retain the former interpretation, ver. 5 may be regarded as a kind of parenthesis, the ὅτε δέ in ver. 6 forming a kind of antithesi…

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23). Ver. 8. περίζωσαι, but simple verb in R.V., W.H., Weiss, Wendt; bind thy tunic with a girdle: during the night the long flowing undergarment was loosened, but fastened up by day, so as not to impede the movements. Wetstein, Weiss, Page, and others contrast Hor., Sat., i., 2, 132. “ Colligit sarcinulas nec …

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to the confined prison-house (so Weiss and Wendt, 1899). Blass decides for the tower of Antonia on account of D.— ἠνοίχθη, see critical ποῖες.---ἐξελθόντες: for remarkable addition in D see critical notes.—ev@éws: used several times in Acts, but εὐθύς only once, see x. 16.— ἀπέστη: when there were no further hi…

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tempts to get rid of the supernatural in St. Luke’s narrative are unsuccessful. This is frankly admitted by Wendt, al- though he also maintains that we cannot discern the actual historical conditions owing to the mingling of legend and history. But he does not deny that St. Peter was liberated, and the same fact…

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277 ἡ δὲ διϊσχυρίζετο οὕτως ἔχειν. 16. ὁ δὲ Πέτρος” ἐπέμενε 17. κατασείσας Δ 3 a ~ A “A 4 8 , > a la < ‘ CTE δὲ αὐτοῖς TH χειρὶ σιγᾶν,' διηγήσατο αὐτοῖς πῶς ὁ Κύριος αὐτὸν ἐξήγαγεν ἐκ τῆς φυλακῆς. εἶπε δέ, ᾽Απαγγείλατε Ιακώβω καὶ τοῖς 1 Before ο αγγ. D (Pesh.) prefix τυχον, so Blass, Hilg. (as if only a possibl…

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278 ἀδελφοῖς ταῦτα. καὶ ἐξελθὼν ἐπορεύθη eis ἕτερον τόπον. 19. , Vs > , > δν’ πο. ~ ΄ ρ Γενομένης δὲ ἡμέρας, ἦν τάραχος οὐκ ὀλίγος } ἐν τοῖς στρατιώταις. τί ἄρα ὁ Πέτρος ἐγένετο. 19. Ἡρώδης δὲ ἐπιζητήσας αὐτὸν καὶ ph εὑρών, ἀνακρίνας τοὺς φύλακας, ἐκέλευσεν” ἀπαχθῆναι : καὶ κατελθὼν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰουδαίας εἰς τὴν Κ…

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