The number of the names together were about, etc. (qv Te SyXos 6voudtwv él To avTd). Much better as Rev., and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about, etc. "Oxros, multitude, would not be used of a number about to be stated.
16. Men and brethren (dvdpes adergoi). Lit., men, brothers. Brother-men. More dignified and solemn than the simple
brethren.
This scripture. The best texts substitute the. See on Mark xit. 10,
The Holy Ghost (76 IIvedpa 7d “Aysov). Lit., Zhe Spirit, the Holy.
Guide. See on lead, Luke vi. 39.
17. Numbered (xarnpiSpnpuévos). Only here in New Testa- ment.
With (cvv). The best texts read év,among. So Rev.
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Obtained (éraye). Strictly, “received by lot.” Reyv., better, received. Compare Lukei. 9. In classical Greek, of receiving public magistracies.
Part (Tov xAjpov). The A. V. does not give the force of the article, the lot which was his. So Rev., “Acs portion:” Ht., lot.
Ministry. See on minister, Matt. xx. 26. Compare bish- opric, ver. 20.
18. Purchased (éxrjcaT0). See on possess, Luke xviii. 12. Better, as Rev., obtained. Judas did not purchase the field, but the priests did with the money which he returned to them (Matt. xxvii. 7). The expression means merely that the field was purchased with the money of Judas.
Falling headlong (apnvijs yevopuevos). Lit., having become headlong.
He burst asunder (éddx«noe). Only here in New Testa- ment. Lit., to crack, to burst with a noise. So Homer, of the bones cracking beneath a blow (“Tliad,” xiii., 616). Compare Aristophanes, ‘“ Clouds,” 410.
19. Aceldama. Or, more properly, Akeldamach. The word is Aramaic, the language then spoken in Palestine.
20. Habitation (éavdus). Only here in New Testament. The word is used in classical Greek of a place for cattle. So Herodotus (i., 111): “ The herdsman took the child in his arms, and went back the way he had come, till he reached the fold” (éravdwv). Also of a farm-building, a country-house.
Bishopric (érucKxomyv). See on 1 Pet. ii. 12. Rev., better, office, with overseership in margin. Compare Luke xix. 44.
Another (&repos). And different person. See on ch, ii. 4.
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21. Went in and went out. An expression for constant intercourse. Compare Deut. xviii.19; Ps. exxi.8; John x. 9; Acts ix. 28.
Among us (颒 jas). The margin of Rev., over us, i.e., as our head, isa sound rendering, and supported by Matt. xxv. 21, 23; Luke ix. 1. The rendering before, im the presence of, occurs Matt. x. 18; Luke xxi. 12.
22. Witness (udptupa). One who shall bear testimony: not a spectator, a mistake often made on Heb. xii. 1. Compare Acts il. 32.
23. Barsabas. <A patronymic, son of Saba: like Bar Jona, Matt. xvi. 17.
24. Which knowest the hearts (xapdvoyyaora). Only here and eh. xv. 8. Lit., heart-knower.
25. That he may take part (AaPety tov Kdfpov). Lit., to take the lot. But the best texts read Tov rozrop, the place. Rev., to take the place.
By transgression fell (zapé8n). See on trespasses, Matt. vi. 14. The rendering of the A. V. is explanatory. Tev., better, fell away.
His own place. Compare “ the place in this ministry.” Tov isiov, his own, is stronger than the simple possessive pronoun. It is the place which was peculiarly his, as befitting his awful sin —Gehenna.
26. He was numbered (cvyxarewndicdn). Only here in New Testament. See on counteth, Luke xiv. 28.
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1. Was fully come (cupzAnpotatar). Used by Luke only. See on Luke ix. 51. Lit., as Rev., margin, was being fulfilled. The day, according to the Hebrew mode, is conceived as a measure to be filled up. So long as the day had not yet ar- rived, the measure was not full. The words denote zn process