dese ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ
16. Ανδρες ἀδελφοί, eer! πληρωθῆναι τὴν γραφὴν ταύτην, ἣν προεῖπε τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Άγιον διὰ στόματος Δαβίδ, περὶ ᾿Ιούδα τοῦ γενοµένου ὁδηγοῦ τοῖς συλλαβοῦσι τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν: 17. ὅτι κατηριθµηµένος ἦν σὺν
1 Sep ΝΑΒΟΡΕ, Origen, Eus., Ath., W.H., Weiss. δει D*, Vulg., Boh.; so Gig., Par., Aug. (Iren., Vig.), Hilgenfeld. Blass, p. xvii., in his Preface to β, argues that as Irenzus omits 172-20 and elsewhere seems to be ignorant of the death of Judas, so his text also omitted from κατηρ. εν nptv to γενηθητω. In his revised edition Luke added 178-290 and also substituted εδει for the original δει: ‘ut significaretur ex parte jam esse ratum factum vetus vaticinium, exitu nempe Jude”’. But the omission of Irenzeus may be accidental, or it has been suggested that he too may have regarded 17a-20 as a parenthesis and not actually part of Peter’s speech.
Δαβιδ; but in NBD, 5ο W.H., Weiss Δανειδ.
ACE read AAA; see Winer-
Schmiedel, p. 65, Blass, Proleg. (Acta Apfost.), p. 34.
Ver. 16. "Ανδρες ἀδελφοί: a mode of address indicating not only respect but also the solemnity of the occasion and the importance of the subject. There is nothing unclassical in this use of the vo- cative without ὦ at the beginning of speeches. Demosthenes, at least on some occasions, used the phrase Ανδρες ᾿᾿Αθηναῖοι without & Simcox, ubi supra, p- 76, note, and see also Winer-Schmie- del, p. 258, ποῖε.---ἔδει: very frequent in St. Luke’s Gospel and the Acts; in the former nineteen, in the latter twenty- five times, and in all parts of the book, Friedrich, ubi supra, p. 22 (Lekebusch). It expresses a divine necessity, and is used by all the Evangelists, as by St. Peter here, and by St. Paul (τ Cor. xv. 25), of the events connected with and following upon the Passion.—8et, opor- tet; expresses logical necessity rather than personal moral obligation ὤφειλεν, debuit, or the sense of fitness, ἔπρεπεν, decebat. The three words are all found in Heb. ii. 1,17, 10, on which see West- cott, Hebrews, p. 36, and Plummer’s St. Luke, p. 247. St. Peter’s speech falls into two parts, one introduced by ἔδει, and the other introduced by δεῖ, ver. 21. ---την γραφὴν: the reference is undoubt- edly to the particular passages in the Ο.Τ. which follow, cf. Luke iv. 20, Acts vill. 35 ; see Lightfoot on Galatians iii. 22. There is no reference to Psalm xli. 9, -or this passage would have been quoted, but to the passages in ver. 20.---πληρω- “GAvat, cf. Luke xxiv. 44, 45. πληρόω (which is very frequently used by St. Luke, Friedrich, ubi supra, p. 40) means more than ‘‘ fulfil” in the popular acceptation of the word; it implies “‘to fill up to the full”; ‘Not only is our Lord the subject of direct predictions in the Old Testament, but His claims go to the full extent of affirming that all the truths ‘which are imperfectly, and frequently very
darkly shadowed forth in the pages, are realised in Him as the ideal to which they pointed” (Row, Bampton Lectures, pp. 202, 203).— 6 πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. St. Luke uses this, or a similar expression, πνεῦμα ἅγιον or τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, about forty times in Acts alone, whilst in St. Luke’s Gospel alone it is used about as many times as in the three other Evangelists together (Lekebusch, Apostelgeschichte, p. 65, and Plummer, St. Luke, p. 14).--ὁδηγοῦ τοῖς συλλ. τὸν Ἰησοῦν. St. Peter simply states a fact, but does not heap scorn or abuse upon Judas (Chrysostom, Hom., iii., cf. Theophylact). St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. John simply say of Judas 6 παραδιδούς, “ he who delivered Him up,” or employ some similar expression ; he is never called “the traitor” (St. Luke vi. 16, ἐγένετο προδότης, “ became a traitor,” see Plummer, in loco). This self-restraint is remarkable on the part of men who must have regarded their Master’s Death as the most atrocious of murders (see Row, Bampton Lectures, ΡΡ. 179, 180, note). At the same time the word ὁδηγός seems to bring before us the scene in Gethsemane, how Judas went before the multitude, and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him (Luke xxii. 47), and to show us how vividly the memories of the Passion were present to St. Peter; cf. %) Peter il, 2τΠ:].