Ver. 11. κρατοῖντος: in his joy and gratitude, “holding them” in a physical sense, although it is possible that it signifies that the healed man joined. himself to the Apostles more closely as a follower (iv. 14), fearing like the de- moniac healed by Christ (Luke viii. 38). lest he should be separated from his benefactors, cf. Cant. iii. 4.---ἐπὶ τῇ στοᾷ. ™ «ad. Σ.: better ‘“ portico,” R.V. margin; colonnade, or cloister (John x. 23). It derived its name from Solomon, and was the only remnant of his temple. A comparison of the notices in Josephus, B. $.,V., 5,1; Ant., xv., 11, 5 and xx.,9, 7, make it doubtful whether the foundations only, or the whole colonnade, should be referred back to Solomon. Ewald’s idea that the colonnade was so called because it was a place of concourse for the wise in their teaching has not found any support: Stanley’s Fewish Church, ii.,
lol A A > ΤΙ. Κρατοῦντος δὲ 1 τοῦ ἰαθέντος χωλοῦ τὸν Πέτρον καὶ ᾿Ιωάννην, συνέδραµε πρὸς αὐτοὺς was 6 λαὸς ἐπὶ τῇ στοᾷ τῇ καλουµένῃ
Σολομῶντος, ἔκθαμβοι. 12. ἰδὼν δὲ Πέτρος ἀπεκρίνατο πρὸς τὸν
9 3’ 3 a , , > ἃ , Α c¢ A Is 5 / λαὸν, Άνδρες Ισραηλῖται, τί θαυµάζετε ἐπὶ τούτῳ, ἢ ἡμιν τί ἀτενι-
9 ς 257 ‘4 a > , / lol a 3 / ὁ ἵετε,” ὡς idia δυνάµει ἢ εὐσεβείᾳ πεποιηκόσι τοῦ περιπατεῖν αὐτόν ;
1 του ιαθεντος; but αυτου in NABCDE 61, Vulg., Syrr. Ῥ. H., Sah., Boh., Arm., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss; Rec.=prob. beginning of a church lectionary. Butén ver. 11 Western text quite different. D, Flor. εκπορευοµενον (ΕΙ. -νων) δε του MM. και lw. συνεξεπορευετο κρατων αντους, and D continues (not Flor. = a) οι δεθαµβηθεντες εστησαν ev TY στοᾳ TH καλ. Σ. εκθαµβοι (but in B Blass brackets the last word) ; Hilg. follows D. There is a distinction evidently drawn between the area of the Temple and Solomon’s Porch, ‘‘nam porticus illa extra aream sacram fuit,” Blass; and tepov might perhaps be so used as distinct from the outer court or cloisters. If so, the Western text may contain the more precise account of a writer who wishes to bring the Apostles and the lame man from the one into the other, in accordance with the topography with which he was familiar. But if, as Weiss admits, εκπορ.... συνεξεπορευετο is implied in the κρατων and change of locality, cf. vv. 8 and 11, we may have another case in which the theory of Blass may hold good, and Luke him- self may have revised for shortness (see Belser’s retention of the B reading, and Blass, Acta Apost., in loco). Σολομωντος Μ(Α)ΒΟΡ 1, 13, 31,61; so Tisch., W.H., Weiss (but see Winer-Schmiedel, p. 93).
2D, Flor., Par. begin αποκριθεις Se 6 Π. ειπεν προς avtovs—o λαος and was o λαος both omitted. ws ιδια. . . περιπ. αντον, for this D, Flor., Gig., Severian. read ws ηµων τη ιδια Suv. η ευσεβ. πεποιηκοτων του περιπ. αυτον, So Hilg.—gen. abs, characteristic of the Western text (see Weiss, Codex D, p. 60); cf. ii. 1, 15; may be careless transcription or through translation, D has τοντο both before and after πεποιηκοτὠν (Harris, Latinising; Chase, due to Syriac); but see iv. 7—the second
τουτο perhaps confusion with του or το.
184; Edersheim, Temple and its Services, pp. 20, 22, and Keim, Geschichte Fesu, iii., 161. It was situated on the eastern side of the Temple, and so was some- times called the Eastern Cloister, and from its position it was a favourite re- sort.—tq καλ.: the present participle is used just as the present tense is found in the notice in St. John’s Gospel, chap. v. 2 (see Blass, Philology of the Gospels, pp. 241, 242), and if we cannot conclude from this that the book was composed before the destruction of the Temple, the vividness of the whole scene and the way in which Solomon’s Porch is spoken of as still standing, points to the testi- mony of aneye-witness. Nosgen argues that this narrative and others in the early chapters may have been derived directly from St. John, and he instances some verbal coincidences between them and the writings of St. John (Apostelgeschichte, p. 28). But if we cannot adopt his conclu- sions there are good reasons for referring some of these Jerusalem incidents to St. Peter, or to John Mark, see introduction and chap. xii. Feine rightly insists upon this notice and that in ver. 2 as bearing the stamp of a true and trustworthy tradition.