εἶχον ἀντειπεῖν. 15. κελεύσαντες δὲ αὐτοὺς ἔξω τοῦ συνεδρίου ἀπελθεῖν, συνέβαλον πρὸς ἀλλήλους, 16. λέγοντες, Τί ποιήσομεν 5 τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τούτοις; ὅτι μὲν γὰρ γνωστὸν σημεῖον γέγονε δι αὐτῶν, πᾶσι τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν Ἱερουσαλὴμ davepdv,® καὶ οὐ δυνάµεθα
ἀρνήσασθαι: 17. GAN’ ἵνα μὴ ἐπὶ πλεῖον διανεµηθῇ εἰς τὸν λαόν,
ἀπειλῇ * ἀπειλησώμεθα αὐτοῖς µηκέτι λαλεῖν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι τούτω
1 αντειπειν; D, Flor. insert before, ποιησαι η.
D also omits last clause of νετ.
13, and puts in altered form at end of ver. 14 τινες δε εξ αντων κ.τ.λ. The τινες δε would follow naturally enough if we read with Flor. ακουσαντες δε παντες at the beginning of ver. 13 ; but see connection of passage in comment.
2 groinoopev DP, Flor., Gig., Par., Vulg., Bas., Chrys., so Meyer and Hilg.; ποιη- σωµεν SABE, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, and so Blass in β.
3 bavepov, D reads Φανερωτερον, according to Blass (in B retained), for superl.
defended by Belser and Hilg.
άαπειλη om. ABD vers., Lucif., Bas., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Hilg. ; but retained by EP, Syr. Harcl., Chrys., so by Meyer and Weiss (Wendt doubtful but on the whole against retention) ; ¢f. v. 28, Blass retains: ‘‘optime”’.
here, the Apostles, so Weiss, and cf. Rendall, in loco.
Ver. 15. συνέβαλον πρὸς ἀλλήλους, sc., λόγους: only in St. Luke’s writings, in different significations; cf. for the construction here, Eurip., I[phig. Aul., 830, and Plutarch, Mor., p. 222, C.—see on xvii. 18.
Ver. 16. th ποιήσοµεν: for the deliberative subjunctive, which should be read here, cf. ii. 37; it may express the utter perplexity of the Sanhedrists (so Rendall); in questions expressing doubt or deliberation, the subjunctive would be more usual in classical Greek than the future indicative, Blass, w. s., p. 205.---ὅτι μὲν: pév answered by ἀλλά in ver. 17 (omitted by D.), cf. Mark ix. 12, see Simcox, Language of the N- Τ., p. 168, and for other instances of pév simi- larly used, see also Lekebusch, Afostel- geschichte, pp. 74, 75.--Ὑνωστὸν, that which is a matter of knowledge as op- posed to δοξαστόν, that which is matter of opinion (so in Plato). The word is characteristic of St. Luke, being used by him twice in the Gospel, ten times in Acts, and elsewhere in N.T. only three times (Friedrich).
Ver. 17. ἐπὶ πλεῖον may be taken as = latius (2 Tim. ii. 16, ili. 9) or = diutius (Acts xx. 9, xxiv. 4), but the con- text favours the former, The phrase is quite classical, and it occurs several times in LXX, ef. Wisdom viii. 12; 3 Macc. v. 1δ.---διανεµηθῃ: only here in N.T. but frequently used in classical writers in active and middle—to divide into portions, to distribute, to divide
among themselves — here = lest it should spread abroad (or better per- hapsin D (B)) It has been taken by some as if it had a parallel in és yay- γραινα νομὴν ἕξει, 2 Tim. ii. 17, and ex- pressed that the report of the Apostles’ teaching and power might spread and feed like a cancer (see Bengel, Blass, Zockler, Rendall), but although vépw in the middle voice (and possibly ἐπινέμω) could be so used, it is very doubtful how far διανέµω could be so applied. At the same time we may note that διανέµω is a word frequently used in medical writers, Hobart, Medical Language of St. Luke, pp. 196, 197, and that it, with the two other great medical words of similar import, διασπείρειν and avadi- δόναι, is peculiar to St. Luke. In the LXX διανέµω is only found once, Deut. xxix. 26 (25), in its classical sense
as a translation of the Hebrew abn.
--ἀπειλῃῇ ἀπειλησώμεθα: if we retain the reading in T.R., the phrase is a common Hebraism, cf. v. 28, xxiii. 14, ii. 17, 30, Luke xxii. 15, cf. John vi. 29, James v. 7, and from the LXX, Matt. xiii. 14, xv. 4. The form of the Hebrew formula giving the notion of intenseness is rendered in A.V. by “‘straitly,” as by the revisers (who omit ἀπειλῇ here) in v. 28. Similar expressions are common in the LXX, and also in the Apocrypha, cf. Ecclus. xlviii. 11, Judith vi. 4, and occa- sionally a similar formula is found in Greek authors, see especially Simcox, Language of the N. T., p. 83, and Blass, Grammatik des Ν. G., pp. 116, I17.—