In Codex Ὦ (so β) an attempt is appar- ently made to meet this difficulty by reading τινες δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπεγίνωσκον αὐτοὺς. Others have pointed out that the same word is used in iii. 10 of the beggar who sat for alms, and that here, as there, ἐπεγίν. implies something more than mere recognition (see especially Lumby’s note on the force of ἐπί); thus the revisers in both passages render ** took knowledge of”. But here as else- ‘where Professor Ramsay throws fresh light upon the narrative, St. Paul, p. 371. And however we interpret the words, St. Chrysostom’s comment does not lose its beauty: ἐπεγίν. τε. . . ἦσαν, {.ε., in His Passion, for only those were with Him at the time, and there indeed they had seen them humble, dejected—and this it was that most surprised them, the greatness of the change; Hom., x.—The τε after ἐπεγίν., and its repetition at the com- mencement of ver. 14 (so R.V., W.H., Weiss), is very Lucan (see Ramsay’s para- phrase above) ; for this closely connecting force of te cf. Weiss’s commentary, passim, With ow κ.τ.λ. Weiss com- pares Luke viii. 38, xxii. 56.
Ver.14. ἑστῶτα: standing, no longer a cripple, firmo talo (Bengel), and by his presence and attitude affording a testimony not to be gainsaid. — σὺν αὐτοῖς, {.ε., with the disciples. We are not told whether the man was a prisoner with the disciples, but just as the healed demoniac had sought to be with Jesus, so we may easily imagine that the restored cripple, in his gratitude and faith, would desire to be with his benefactors : “‘ great was the boldness of the man that even in the judgment-hall he had not left them: for had they (1.ε., their opponents) said that the fact was not so, there was he to refute them,” St. Chrysostom, Hom., x. On St. Luke’s fondness for the shorter form, ἑστώς not ἑστηκώς, both in Gospel and Acts, see Friedrich, Das Lucasevangelium, p. 8.—ov8év εἶχον ἀντ.: this meaning of ἔχω with the in- finitive is quite classical; cf. the Latin habeo diceve; on St. Luke’s fondness for phrases with εὑρίσκειν and ἔχειν see Friedrich, u. s., pp. II, 12.— ἀντειπεῖν: only used by St. Luke in the N.T., Luke xxi, 15. The miracle, as St. Chrysostom says, spoke no less forcibly than the Apostles themselves, but the word may be taken, as in the Gospel, of contradicting personal adversaries, 1.¢.,
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