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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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Ver. 36. μετὰ δέ: second missionary journey commences, ending xviii. 22. ---ἐπιστρέψαντες, reversi, cf. Luke ii. 39, W.H., xvii. 31. The word is so- used in LXX, and in modern Greek (Kennedy, p. 155).—8m, see on xiii. 2.— ἐπισκεψ., see above on vi. 3. The word was characteristic of a man like St. Paul, whose he…

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of the Church, although we must never forget that “twice over did Barnabas save Saul for the work of Christianity ’’. —Mapkov: In his two imprisonments St. Paul mentions Mark in terms of high approval, Col. iv. 10, 11, Philem. 24, 2 Tim, iv. 11. In the first imprisonment St. Paul significantly recommends him to…

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36. META δέ τινας ἡμέρας εἶπε Παῦλος πρὸς Βαρνάβαν, Ἐπιστρέ- ψαντες δὴ ἐπισκεψώμεθα τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ἡμῶν 1 κατὰ πᾶσαν πόλιν, ἐν 1 ηµων om. with ΝΑΒΟΡΕ, Vulg., Sah., Boh., Syrr. Ῥ. and H., Arm., Chrys., Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V., Weiss, Wendt, and Hilg. vanus, who had originally been members of the Jerusalem Church, …

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36—37. 333 ais κατηγγείλαμµεν τὸν λόγον τοῦ Κυρίου, πῶς ἔχουσι: 27.1 Βαρνάβας δὲ ἐβουλεύσατο συμπαραλαβεῖν τὸν Ιωάννην τὸν καλούμενον Μάρκον - \ After πως εχουσι and at commencement of verse Syr. Harcl. mg. prefixes “‘placuit autem cogitatio Barnabe,” so Blass in β. eBovAevoaro, but with SABCE τε, 61, Vulg. vers…

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For reasons why St. Paul did not refer to his second visit to Jerusalem when writing to the Galatians see on xi. 30, and Salmon, “ Galatians,” Β.Γ.Σ, p. 111; Sanday, Expositor, February, 18096, p. 92; Hort, fudaistic Christianity, p. 61; “Acts of the Apostles,” p. 30, Hastings’ B.D. and “Chron. of the N.T.,” ἐδί…

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A further question arises as to the position to be assigned to the incident in Gal. ii. 11-14. Professor Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 157 ff., supposes that it took place before the Apostolic Conference, and finds a description of the occasion ot the incident in Acts xv. 1, Acts xv. 24, Gal. ti. 12, i.e., in the words o…

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It seems even more difficult to trace the prohibitions of the Decree to the Levitical prohibitions, Lev. xvii., xviii., which were binding on strangers or sojourners in Israel (LXX προσήλντοι), since, if the written law was to be the source of the Jerusalem prohibitions, it is inexplicable that the variations fr…

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40—41. and Cilicia, xv. 41, doubtless because they were already aware of the enactments prescribed). It may well be that St. Paul regarded himself as the missionary- Apostle of the Church at Antioch, sent forth from that Church for a special work, and that he would recognise that if the Antiochian Christians we…

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Sf Paul and Barnabas, and their mutual labours in xiii., xiv. subsequent to the incident described in Gal. ii. 13, whether that incident took place just before or just after the Jerusalem Conference; in either case a previous mutual association between Paul and Barnabas in mission work amongst the Gentiles, suc…

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ἐπιστηρίζων τὰς ἐκκλησίας.ὶ XVI. 1.2 Κατήντησε δὲ εἰς Δέρβην καὶ Λύστραν " καὶ ἰδού, µαθητής τις ἦν ἐκεῖ ὀνόματι Τιμόθεος, υἱὸς γυναικός τινος Ιουδαίας πιστῆς, πατρὸς δὲ Ἕλληνος: 2. ὃς ἐμαρ- 1 At end of verse D, Gig., Vulg., Syr. H. mg. add παραδιδους τε και εντολας των αποστολων και (αποστ. και om. D, Cassiod) πρε…

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[—3. τυρεῖτο ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν Λύστροις καὶ ᾽Ικονίῳ ἀδελφῶν. 339 3. τοῦτον ἠθέλησεν 6 Παῦλος σὺν αὐτῷ ἐξελθεῖν, καὶ λαβὼν περιέτεµεν αὐτὸν διὰ τοὺς Ιουδαίους τοὺς ὄντας ἐν τοῖς τόποις ἐκείνοις: ᾖδεισαν it could only have been as a “ proselyte of the gate,” otherwise Timothy would surely have been circumcised. We can- …

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340 yap dmayvtes! τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ, ém Ἕλλην ὑπῆρχεν. 4.7 ὡς δὲ διεπορεύοντο τὰς πόλεις, παρεδίδουν αὐτοῖς φυλάσσειν τὰ δόγµατα τὰ κεκριµένα ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τῶν ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ. ε 4 » > / a a , ‘ 5. at μὲν οὖν ἐκκλησίαι ἐστερεοῦντο τῇ πίστει, καὶ ἐπερίσσευον τῷ ἀριθμῷ καθ ἡμέραν. 1S9ABC 13,…

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Ver. 5. at μὲν οὖν éxx.: the last time ἐκκλησία is used by St. Luke, except of the Jerusalem Church, and in the peculiar case of the elders at Ephesus, Hort, Ecclesia, p.g5. Rendall, Appendix, μὲν οὖν, p. 165, connects this verse with the following paragraph, cf. ix. 31, so apparently Blass in β.--ἐστερεοῦντο: …

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and therefore we might expect ‘* Lycaono- Galatic and Phrygo-Galatic,” but to avoid this complicated phraseology the writer uses the simple phrase: “the Galatic country,” while Phrygia denotes either Phrygia Galatica or Phrygia Magna, or both,and see Ramsay,Church in the Roman Empire, pp. 77 and 91-93, and Expos…

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342 Πραξεις Αποστολων Xvi.

εἴασεν αὐτοὺς τὸ Πνεῦμα. 8.1 παρελθόντες δὲ τὴν Μυσίαν, κατέβησαν cis Τρωάδα. 9. καὶ ὅραμα διὰ τῆς νυκτὸς ὤφθη τῷ Παύλῳ 3 ἀνήρ τις ἦν Μακεδὼν ἑστώς, παρακαλῶν αὐτὸν καὶ λέγων, Διαβὰς eis 1 For παρελθοντες D, Gig., Vulg. read διελθοντες, so Blass (‘‘recte ’) in a and β. But the meaning of παρελ. is disputed. In its …

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8—11. Μακεδονίαν βοήθησον ὑμῖν. 343 10.1 ὡς δὲ τὸ ὅραμα εἶδεν, εὐθέως ἐζητήσαμεν ἐξελθεῖν εἰς τὴν Μακεδονίαν, συμβιβάζοντες ὅτι προσ- κέκληται ἡμᾶς 6 Κύριος εὐαγγελίσασθαι αὐτούς. II. ᾿Αναχθέντες οὖν ἀπὸ τῆς Τρωάδος, εὐθυδρομήσαμεν εἰς Σαµοθράκην, τῇ τε 1D, Sah. read διεγερθεις ουν διηγησατο το οραµα ηµιν, and …

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Ver. 12. ἐκεῖθέν τε εἰς Φ.: on or near the site of Krenides (Wells or Fountains), so called from its founder Philip, the father of Alexander the Great. Near Philippi, Octavius and Anthony had decisively defeated Brutus and Cassius, 344 émovon εἰς] Νεάπολιν, 12. ἐκεῖθέν τε εἲς Φιλίήπους, ἥτις ἐστὶ πρώτη ” τῆς µε…

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12---14. γυναιξί. 345 14. Kai τις γυνὴ ὀνόματι Λυδία, πορφυρόπωλις πόλεως Θυατείρων, σεβοµένη τὸν Θεόν, ἤκουεν' ἧς 6 Κύριος διήνοιξε τὴν 1 ηκονεν, D*E, Vulg., Chrys. read ηκουσεν; Blass rejects. ‘“‘where there was according to custom a place for prayer”. The R.V. reads οὗ ἐνομίζομεν προσευχὴν εἶναι, ‘ where we…

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346 καρδίαν, προσέχειν τοῖς λαλουμένοις ὑπὸ τοῦ Παύλου. 15. ὡς δὲ , a η ~ ἐβαπτίσθη, καὶ 6 οἶκος αὐτῆς, παρεκάλεσε λέγουσα, Ei κεκρίκατέ µε ‘ a K , 4 > λθό > ‘ o 7 1 , πιστὴν τῷ Κυρίῳ εἶναι, εἰσελθόντες εἰς τὸν οἶκόν pou! peivate- καὶ παρεβιάσατο ἡμᾶς. 3 lal 16. ᾿Εγένετο δὲ πορευοµένων ἡμῶν eis προσευχήν,; πα…

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triloquist (Hebrew )$%); of which Πύθων is thus used as an equivalent, is the term employed in the LXX, Lev. xix. 341, xx. 6, 27,1 Sam. xxviii. 7, etc., for those that have a familiar spirit (cf. also the use of the two words ἐγγαστρ. and Πύθων amongt the Rabbis, R. Salomo on Deut. xviii. 11, and instances in W…

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καταγγέλλουσιν ὑμῖν ὁδὸν σωτηρίας. διαπονηθεὶς δὲ ὁ Παῦλος, καὶ ἐπιστρέψας, τῷ πολλὰς ἡμέρας. 18 τοῦτο δὲ ἐποίει ἐπὶ πνεύµατι εἶπε, Παραγγέλλω σοι ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐξελθεῖν 1 ἀπ᾿ αὐτῆς. καὶ ἐξῆλθεν αὐτῇ τῇ dpa. 19. ᾿Ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ κύριοι αὐτῆς, 1 ὅτι ἐξῆλθεν ἡ ἐλπὶς τῆς ἐργασίας αὐτῶν, ἐπιλαβόμενοι …

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19-22, 349 20.1 καὶ προσαγαγόντες αὐτοὺς τοῖς στρατηγοῖς, εἶπον, Οὗτοι οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἐκταράσσουσιν ἡμῶν τὴν πόλιν, ᾿Ιουδαῖοι ὑπάρχοντες : 21. καὶ καταγγελλουσιν ” έθη ἃ οὐκ ἔξεστιν ἡμῖν παραδέχεσθαι οὐδὲ ποιεῖν, Ῥωμαίοις οὖσι. 3ε/ 22. καὶ συνεπέστη 6 ὄχλος κατ αὐτῶν: καὶ ot στρατηγοί, περιῤῥήξαντες αὐτῶν τὰ ἱμάτι…

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ειν: 23. πολλάς τε ἐπιθέντες αὐτοῖς πληγάς, ἔβαλον εἰς φυλακήν, παραγγείλαντες τῷ δεσμοφύλακι ἀσφαλῶς τηρεῖν αὐτούς: 24. ὃς παραγγελίαν τοιαύτην εἰληφώς, ἔβαλεν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὴν ἐσωτέραν φυλακήν, καὶ τοὺς πόδας αὐτῶν ἠσφαλίσατο εἰς τὸ ξύλον. 25. Κατὰ δὲ τὸ μεσονύκτιον Παῦλος καὶ Σίλας προσευχόµενοι ὕμνουν τὸν Θεόν -…

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‘in the imperfect; they were singing, and the prisoners were listening, when the earthquake happened. Ver. 26. ἄφνω, see on ii, 2.---σεισμὸς, cf. iv. 31, where the divine nearness and presence were manifested in a similar manner; the neighbourhood and the period were conspicuous for such con- ον 23—28. ἐπηκρο…

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Ver. 28. μηδὲν πράξ. σεαυτῷ κακόν: Blass remarks that the distinction be- tween πράσσειν and ποιεῖν is not always precisely observed in N.T., and takes it as = Attic, µ. ποιησῆς. Ἠπράσσειν is not found in St. Matthew or St. Mark and only twice in St. John, whilst by St. Luke it is used six times in his Gospel, …

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Ver. 34. ἀναγαγών τε αὐτοὺς: τε closely connects this second proof of his thankfulness with the first avay,: “he brought them up into,” R.V.; Blass thinks that the ava means that he brought them up from underground, but it may simply mean that the house was built over the prison; see also Knabenbauer in Ίορο.--…

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Ver. 36. viv οὖν, Lucan, cf. κ. 33, xv. 10, Xxili. 15.—év εἰρήνῃ (omitted by D) : the jailor may well have used the words in a deeper sense after the instruction of Paul, and his own admission to citizen- ship in a kingdom which was “righteous- ness, peace, joy in the Holy Ghost”’. Ver. 37. Δείραντες ἡμᾶς δ.: in…

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Ver. 39. See addition in D, critical note. The fear of a further riot expressed by the magistrates is exactly what we should expect in the cities of the AZgean lands, which were always weak in their municipal government. D also expresses the naive way in which the magistrates not only try to throw the blame upon…

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Additional Note.—Chap. xvi. 12, ‘“‘which is a city of Macedonia, the first of the district,” R.V. This might mean, so far as πρώτη is concerned, that Philippi was the city nearest in the dis- trict, and the city which they first reached. Neapolis, which actually came first on the route, was not generally regarde…

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CHAPTER XVII.—Ver.1. διοδεύσαντες. Se: ‘‘and they went along the Roman road"? (Ramsay): verb only found in Luke, Luke viii. 1, and here, but frequent in LXX, and used also by Polyb. and Plut., cf. Gen. xiii. 17, etc., so in 1 Macc. three times. ‘The famous road, the Via Egnatia, Horace, Sat., Ἱ., 5, 97, extended…

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357 2. κατὰ δὲ τὸ εἰωθὸς τῷ Παύλῳ εἰσῆλθε πρὸς αὐτούς, καὶ ἐπὶ σάββατα τρία } διελέγετο αὐτοῖς ἀπὸ τῶν γραφῶν, 3. διανοίγων καὶ παρατιθέ- µενος, ὅτι τὸν Χριστὸν ἔδει παθεῖν καὶ ἀναστῆναι ἐκ νεκρῶν, καὶ ὅτι 1 διελεξατὸ (pro -λεγετο, which Meyer retains) NAB 13, 61, 103, Syrr. Ῥ. and H., Boh., so Tisch., W.H., R.V.,…

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ee) οι οο οὗτός ἐστιν 1 6 Χριστός, ᾿Ιησοῦς, ὃν ἐγὼ καταγγέλλω ὑμῖν. 4. καί > 2A 2 , - lA ~ , ‘ τινες ἐδ αὐτῶν ἐπείσθησαν, καὶ προσεκληρώθησαν τῷ Παύλῳ καὶ τῷ Σίλα, τῶν τε” σεβομένων Ἑλλήνων πολὺ πλῆθος, γυναικῶν τε τῶν 1ο Χρ. |., so HLP and most mins., Theophyl., but B has ο Χρ. ο t., so W.H. text, Weiss, Wendt…

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Ver. 4. προσεκληρώθησαν: ‘there were in addition gathered to them” (Ramsay), giving the verb a passive meaning answering to its form ; or ‘“‘ these were allotted to them, associated with them, as disciples [by God],” cf. Ephes. i. 11. The verb is often used in Philo, also found in Plutarch, Lucian, but only her…

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360 ἐζήτουν αὐτοὺς ἀγαγεῖν εἰς τὸν δῆμον 6. ph εὑρόντες δὲ αὐτούς, ἔσυρον τὸν Ιάσονα καί τινας ἀδελφοὺς ἐπὶ τοὺς πολιτάρχας, βοῶντες, "Ort οἱ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἀναστατώσαντες, οὗτοι καὶ ἐνθάδε πάρεισιν, 7. οὓς ὑποδέδεκται Ιάσων: καὶ οὗτοι πάντες ἀπέναντι τῶν δογµάτων former, owing no doubt to his Hellenis- ing ; see…

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----το. Καίσαρος πράττουσι, βασιλέα λέγοντες ἕτερον εἶναι, ᾿Ιησοῦν. 8. ἐτάραξαν δὲ τὸν ὄχλον καὶ τοὺς πολιτάρχας ἀκούοντας ταῦτα : 9. καὶ λαβόντες τὸ ἱκανὸν παρὰ τοῦ ᾿Ιάσονος καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν, ἀπέλυσαν > , αυτους, το, Οἱ δὲ ἀδελφοὶ εὐθέως διὰ τῆς νυκτὸς ἐξέπεμψαν τόν τε Παῦλον καὶ τὸν Σίλαν εἰς Βέροιαν: οἵτινες πα…

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362 Πραξεις Αποστολων Xvii.

τὴν συναγωγὴν τῶν Ιουδαίων ἀπῄεσαν. 11. οὗτοι δὲ ἦσαν 1 εὐγενέσ- τεροι τῶν ἐν Θεσσαλονίκη, οἵτινες ἐδέξαντο τὸν λόγον μετὰ πάσης προθυµίας, τὸ καθ ἡμέραν ἀνακρίνοντες τὰς ypadds, εἰ ἔχοι ταῦτα οὕτως. 12. πολλοὶ μὲν οὖν ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπίστευσαν,; καὶ τῶν Ἑλληνίδων 1 For ενγενεστεροι D, Par.! read ευγενεις, but not Blass …

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11-16. 363 γυναικῶν τῶν εὐσχημόνων καὶ ἀνδρῶν οὐκ ὀλίγοι. 13. ὡς δὲ ἔγνωσαν οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Θεσσαλονίκης Ἰουδαῖοι, ὅτι καὶ ἐν τῇ Βεροίᾳ κατηγγέλη ὑπὸ τοῦ Παύλου ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἦλθον κἀκεῖ σαλεύοντες τοὺς ὄχλους. 14. εὐθέως δὲ τότε τὸν Παῦλον ἐξαπέστειλαν ot ἀδελφοὶ πορεύεσθαι Gs? ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν ' ὑπέμενον δὲ ὅ τ…

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364 - a , ἕως ᾿Αθηνῶν }: καὶ λαβόντες ἐντολὴν πρὸς τὸν Σίλαν καὶ Τιμόθεον, < , > > , 3 ΄ ἵνα ὡς τάχιστα ἔλθωσι πρὸς αὐτόν, ἐξῄεσαν. 16. Ἐν δὲ ταῖς ᾿Αθήναις ἐκδεχομένου αὐτοὺς τοῦ Παύλου, παρ- , Q A > re} ο θ A 2 id > 9 ωξύνετο τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ θεωροῦντι κατείδωλον οὖσαν τὴν πόλιν. 17. διελέγετο μὲν οὖν ἐ…

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Ver. 17. μὲν ovv... τινὲς δὲ, see Rendall, Ρ. 162, Appendix on μὲν οὖν, for the antithesis; a simple instance of two parties acting in opposition. Page however finds the antithesis to μὲν οὖν in ver. 19. ἐπιλαβ. δὲ (5ο W. H.), and regards τινὲς δὲ . . . συνέβαλλον αὐτῷ 16—18. παρατυγχάνοντας. Φιλοσόφων συνέβαλ…

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366 σπερµολόγος οὗτος λέγειν; οἱ δέ, Ξένων δαιµονίων δοκεῖ καταγγελεὺς > 1 ειναι ΄ ὅτι τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν αὐτοῖς εὐηγγελίζετο. 1 οτι τον |. . . . ενηγγελιζετο om. by D, Gig., one of these places where ex- planatory clauses are omitted in D, and also by Blass in B, and Hilg. Blass, p. x., cf. xiv. 12, …

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1δ, need not refer to the two sects of philo- sophers this unfavourable criticism on St. Paul; “ Epicureans,’’ Conybeare in Hastings’ B.D. Certainly the οἱ δέ has no οἱ µέν as if two opposing schools were meant. The punctuation in R.V., which simply states the fact that amongst those in the Agora certain also τ…

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367 ore Atheniensium auctor excepit” Blass), and applied to one who was quite outside any literary circle, an ignorant, vulgar plagiarist. At the same time it is per- haps difficult to find any single word more to the point than ‘“babbler,” A. and R.V. (Tyndall), for, as Alford urges, it both signifies one who …

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19. ἐπιλαβόμενοί τε αὐτοῦ, ἐπὶ τὸν “Aperov! πάγον ἤγαγον λέγοντες, Δυνάμεθα γνῶναι, τίς ἡ Kawh αὕτη ἡ ὑπὸ σοῦ λαλουμένη διδαχή, 1 Τη SADE, Sah., Boh. we have Αριον, but Αρειον in BHP, Weiss, W.H.., Blass, Hilg. η after αντη omitted in BD, Lach. [W.H.], Blass, Hilg., but retained in R.V. and by Weiss. deities, Jes…

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309 20. ξενίζοντα Ὑάρ τινα εἰσφέρεις eis τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν" βουλόμεθα 2 a lol 2 οὖν γνῶναι, τί ἂν θέλοι 1 ταῦτα εἶναι. 21. ᾿Αθηναῖοι δὲ πάντες καὶ a / a ot ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι εἰς οὐδὲν ἕτερον edxaipour,” ἢ λέγειν τι καὶ ἀκούειν καινότερον. let αν θελοι DEHLP, Chrys., so Meyer; τινα θελει NAB 18, 36, 40, 6τ, 180, …

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was not speaking about the doctrine, A.V., his words were the doctrine (Lum- by). Felten regards the question as courteously put, and sees in it a decisive proot that Paul was not put upon his trial, since a man could not be tried on a charge of which his accusers had no knowledge. But this would not prevent a …

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Σταθεὶς δὲ ὁ Παῦλος ἐν µέσῳ τοῦ ᾿Αρείου πάγου, ἔφη, "Ανδρες ᾿Αθηναῖοι, κατὰ πάντα ὡς δεισιδαιµονεστέρους ὑμᾶς θεωρῶ. interests of life were sacrificed to this characteristic (note imperfect tense), rest- less inquisitiveness, their great orator, Demosthenes, knew when he contrasted this idle curiosity with the vi…

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22—23. 371 23. διερχόμενος γὰρ καὶ ἀναθεωρῶν 1 τὰ σεβάσµατα ὑμῶν, εὗρον καὶ βωμὸν ἐν ᾧ ἐπεγέγραπτο,” ° Αγνώστω cd. ὃν οὖν ἀγνοοῦντες 1 For αναθεωρων D (Clem.) has διιστορων (nowhere found in N.T., not used in LXX or classical Greek). 2 For επεγεγραπτο D (Gig.) has ην γεγραμμενον, so Hilg., and reads Ayveotoy Θ…

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> fm ~ ee r can εὐσεβεῖτε, τοῦτον ἐγὼ καταγγέλλω ὑμῖν. 24. 6 Θεὸς 6 ποιήσας τὸν a Φιν A ‘ ~ κόσμον καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ, οὗτος οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς κύριος ὑπάρχων, to sacrifice τῷ προσήκοντι θεῷ, and so the plague ceased, with the result that we find in Athens many βωμοὺς ἀνωνύμους, see the passage quoted in full in…

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24—25. 373 οὐκ ἐν χειροποιήτοις ναοῖς KaToLKEl, 25. οὐδὲ ὑπὸ χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων θεραπεύεται προσδεόµενός τινος, αὐτὸς διδοὺς πᾶσι ζωὴν καὶ πνοὴν chosen by Paul as a word familiar to his hearers. Both by Aristotle and Plato it had been used as including the orderly disposition of the heaven and the earth (according…

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374 καὶ τὰ πάντα" 26. ἐποίησέ τε ἐξ ἑγὸς αἵματος 1 πᾶν ἔθνος ἀνθρώπων, a hs, ~ ὸ όσ' ~ A [ή , 2 κατοικεῖν ἐπὶ wav τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς, ὁρίσας προτεταγµένους 1] αιµατος SAB 13, 40, 61, Vulg., Sah., Boh., Aethpp., Clem., so Tisch., W.H., R.V. [Blass], Wendt; Meyer retains with DEHLP, Syrr. P. and H., Arm., Irint., …

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26---27. καιροὺς καὶ τὰς ὁροθεσίας τῆς κατοικίας αὐτῶν: 27. Inte τὸν ἢ Κύριον, εἰ dpa γε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτὸν καὶ εὕροιεν, καίτοιγε 5 οὐ 1 Θεον for Κυριον NABHL 61, Vulg., Syrr. Ῥ. H., Boh., Sah., Arm., Chrys., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Wendt, Weiss; D, Gig., Iren., Clem. read το Θειον; and Syr. H. mg. adds τι; and D, …

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28. ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν μακρὰν ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν ὑπάρχοντα. καὶ κινούµεθα καί ἐσμεν' ὡς καί τινες τῶν καθ ὑμᾶς ποιητῶν xli., 1. ‘God is near thee; He is with thee; He is within” (quoted by Light- foot, Philippians, p. 290). The relation of man to God is a personal relationship : God is not “' careless of the s…

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Ver. 29. Ὑένος οὖν ὑπάρχοντες: for ὑπάρχειν, see above on ver. 24; is the inference simply that because we are dependent upon God for all things, it is absurd to suppose that the divine nature can be like to the work of men’s hands? This is correct so far as it goes, but is not the further thought implied that a…

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Ver. 30. τοὺς μὲν οὖν χρ.: a contrast drawn between the past times of ignor-, ance, and the present times with God’s summons to repentance, but instead of a finite verb we have the participle ὑπεριδών, and 5ο δέ is omitted in the apodosis ; see Rendall, in loco, and Ap- pendix on μὲν οὖν, p. 163, and to the sam…

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30—32. 379 τοῖς ἀνθρώποις πᾶσι πανταχοῦ μετανοεῖν : 31. διότι] ἔστησεν ἡμέραν, ἐν ᾗ μέλλει κρίνειν 3 τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ, ἐν ἀνδρὶ ᾧ ὥρισε, πίστιν παρασχὼν πᾶσιν, ἀναστήσας αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν. 32. ᾽᾿Ακού- Ἰ καθοτι for διοτι is supported by ΝΑΒΡΕ, Ath., Bas., Cyr., Theodt., Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt,…

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Ver. 32. οἱ μὲν ἐχλ. . . . οἱ δὲ: verb only here in N.T., implies outward ges- ture as well as words of scorn (χλεύη, χεῖλος, cf. µυκτηρίζω, μυκτήρ). We usually think of the οἱ pev as the Stoics, and the οἱ δέ as the Epicureans; ¢.g., Wetstein after describing the Epicureans adds οἱ 84=Stoici : cf. Cicero, De Na…

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33—34- µέσου αὐτῶν. 34. τινὲς δὲ ἄνδρες κολληθέντες αὐτῷ 381 [ή ἐπίστευσαν ' , ἐν ots καὶ Διονύσιος 6 ᾿Αρεοπαγίτης, καὶ γυνὴ ὀνόματι Δάμαρις,! καὶ ἕτεροι σὺν αὐτοῖς. 1 Before και ετερ. D (Flor.) add ευσχηµων. The words και Ύννη ovop. A. are omitted in D (retained by Blass in B), see comment., and also by Hil…

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- XVIII. 1. META δὲ ταῦτα χωρισθεὶς 6 Παῦλος 1 ἐκ τῶν ᾽Αθηνῶν ἦλθεν εἰς Κόρινθον: 2. καὶ εὑρών τινα ᾿Ιουδαῖον ὀνόματι ᾽Ακύλαν, 1ΜΦΑΒ 13, 69, Vulg., Boh., Arm., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, omit Se. NBD, Vulg., Sah., Boh., Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt omit ο Πανλος. dealing with idolatry and polytheism …

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ο εᾷι Ποντικὸν τῷ Ὑένει, προσφάτως ἐληλυθότα ἀπὸ τῆς Ιταλίας, καὶ Πρίσκιλλαν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ, διὰ τὸ διατεταχέναι Κλαύδιον χωρίζεσθαι 1 Instead of Π. γνναικα avrov Syr. Harcl. mg., Flor., Gig., Blass in β read συν Π. γνναικι αυτου, and Flor. adds ησπασατο αντους, so Blass in B. After avrous Syr. Harcl. mg., Flor., s…

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384 XVill. πάντας τοὺς Ἰουδαιους ἐκ τῆς Ρώμης, προσῆλθεν αὐτοῖς: 3.) καὶ διὰ τὸ ὁμότεχνον εἶναι, ἔμενε Trap αὐτοῖς καὶ εἰργάζετο: ἦσαν γὰρ 1 At the commencement of the verse Syr. Harcl. mg., Flor. (Aug.) add ο δε Π. εγνωσθη te AxvdAq, and before opotexvov Syr. Harcl. mg., Aug. add ομοφνλον και, so Blass in B (cf.…

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