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Affirmed (ébacxev). The imperfect implies something ha- bitual. “ Paul kept asserting.”
21. Of the Emperor (rod XeBacrtod). Lit., the august one ; hence a translation of Augustus, which was not a proper name, but a title of the Roman emperors.
26. Lord («cupé@). An instance of Luke’s accuracy. The title “lord” was refused by the first two emperors, Augustus and Tiberius. The emperors who followed accepted it. In the time of Domitian it was a recognized title. Antoninus Pius was the first who put it on his coins.
27. Crimes (airias). Rev., more correctly, charges.
CHAPTHER. XX VI. 2. Happy (waxdpuov). See on blessed, Matt. v. 3. Answer (a7roXoyetoSar). See on 1 Pet. iii. 15. 3. Expert (yywornv). Lit., a knower. Questions (f)rnuatTwv). See on ch. xv. 2.
4. My manner of life, etc. The repeated articles give ad- ditional precision to the statement: “¢he manner of life, that which was from my youth; that which was from the beginning.”
6. For the hope (ém”’ édmééu). Lit. “on the ground of the hope.” ;
Made of God. The article clearly defines what promise, “the one, namely, made of God.”
7. Twelve tribes (Swdexdpudov). Only here in New Testa- ment. A collective term, embracing the tribes as a whole. Meyer renders our twelve-tribe-stock.
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Instantly (év éxteveia). Only here in New Testament. Lit., in intensity. See on fervently, 1 Pet. i. 22. Compare more earnestly, Luke xxii. 44; without ceasing, Acts xii. 5; fervent, 1 Pet. iv. 8. See, also, on znstantly and istant, Luke vii. 4; XXxili. 23.
Serving. Compare ch. xxiv. 14; and see on Luke i. 74.
Come (xatavrijca.). Lit., to arrive at, as if at a goal. Com- pare ch. xvi. 1; xviii. 19; xxv. 13, ete. Rev. attain.
8. That God should raise the dead (ei 0 Qeds vexpors éyeiper). Much better, as Rev., if God raises the dead. He does not put it as a supposition, but asa fact: if God raises the dead, as you admit that he has the power to do, and as your own writ- ings tell you that he has done.
10. Saints (rév dyiwv). Lit., the holy ones. Paul did not call the Christians by this name when addressing the Jews, for this would have enraged them; but before Agrippa he uses the word without fear of giving offence. On this word dys, holy, which occurs over two hundred times in the New Testament, it is to be noted how the writers of the Greek scriptures, both in the New Testament and, what is more remarkable, in the Sep- tuagint, bring it out from the background in which it was left by classical writers, and give preference to it over words which, in pagan usage, represented conceptions of mere externality in religion. Even in the Old Testament, where externality is em- phasized, dys is the standard word for holy.*
* Thus, though the priest is fepeds, the holy place is 7d @yov, and the most holy place, r& &yia tev Gylwv: kepdy is never used in the Septuagint for the temple, except in 1 Chron. xxix. 4; Ezek. xlv. 19; and in both cases the temple is referred to in its outward aspect. In Ezek. xxvii. 6, xxviii. 18, Ta fepd is used of the heathen sanctuaries of Tyre. In the New Testament iepds never implies moral excellence. Excepting in the neuter form, 7d fepdr, the temple, it occurs but twice (1 Cor. ix. 18; 2 Tim. iii. 15), and is never used ofa person. eurds is reverend ; ayvds, pure, in the sense of chastity, freedom from admixture of evil ; and is applied once to God himself (1 John iii. 3). “Oguos is holy by sanction, Trench remarks the sharp distinction maintained
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Gave my voice (xarjveyxa Whgov). Lit., laid down my vote. See on counteth, Luke xiv. 28. Some suppose that Paul here refers to casting his vote as a member of the Sanhedrin ; in which case he must have been married and the father of a family. But this there is no reason for believing (compare 1 Cor. vii. 7, 8); and the phrase may be taken as expressing merely moral assent and approval.