Ver. 20. οὐ . . . μὴ: on the two negatives forming an affirmative cf. 1 Cor. xii. 15; Viteau, Le Grec du N. T., p- 220 (1893). Winer-Moulton, lv., 9, compares Aristoph., Ran., 42; see also Burton, N. T. Moods and Tenses, p. 184.
Ver. 21. προσαπειλησάμενοι: ‘ when they had further threatened them ” R.V., or the word may mean “ added threats to their warning ” ver. 18 (‘‘ prius enim tan- tum preceperunt,” Erasmus). So Wendt as against Meyer; cf. in LXX, Ecclus. xiii. 3, S., and Dem., p. 544, 26.—améAveav: “‘dimiserunt [iii. 13] non absolverunt,”’ Blass; see St. Chrysostom’s striking con- trast between the boldness of the Apostles and the fear of their judges (Hom., xi.).—
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λαλεῖν.
πο,
21. of δὲ προσαπειλησάµενοι ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς, μηδὲν
εὑρίσκοντες τὸ πῶς κολάσωνται αὐτούς, διὰ τὸν λαόν, ὅτι πάντες
> ή a SY ~ ὃν ο lal ἐδόξαζον τὸν Θεὸν ἐπὶ τῷ γεγονότι.
22. ἐτῶν γὰρ jv πλειόνων
τεσσαράκοντα” ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐφ ὃν ἐγεγόνει τὸ σημεῖον τοῦτο τῆς
ἰάσεως.
23. ᾿Απολυθέντες δὲ ἦλθον πρὸς τοὺς ἰδίους, καὶ ἀπήγγειλαν ὅσα
πρὸς αὐτοὺς of ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ ot πρεσβύτεροι εἶπον.
24. οἱ δὲ
ἀκούσαντες,ὸ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἦραν Φωνὴν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν, καὶ εἶπον,
1 D seems to read µη ευρισκοντες αιτιαν, so Hilg., see Harris (p. 99).
2 reooap., SEE ON i. 3.
3 After axovoavres D adds και επιγνοντες την Tov θεου ενεργειαν, so Hilg.—Belser and Zéckler hold that the clause cannot be a later addition, but Weiss objects that
no reference is found to the words in ver. 29 which follows.
επιγινωσκω is used
more frequently by St. Luke than by the other Evangelists, but ενεργεια is entirely
confined to St. Paul in the N.T.
τὸ πῶς: finding nothing, namely (τὸ), how they might, etc.; this use of the article is quite classical, drawing atten- tion to the proposition introduced by it and making of it a compound substantive expressing one idea, most commonly with an interrogation ; itisused by St. Lukeand St. Paul, and both in St. Luke’s Gospel and in the Acts, cf. Luke i. 62, ix. 46, xix. 48, xxii. 2, 4, 23, 24, Acts xxli. 30, Rom, viii. 26, 1 Thess. iv. 1, cf. Mark ix. 23. So here the Sanhedrists are re- presented as asking themselves τὸ πῶς κολ. (Friedrich and Lekebusch both draw attention to this characteristic of St. Luke’s writings). See Viteau, Le Grec du Ν. Τ., pp. 67, 68 (1893). κολ. only here and in 2 Pet. ii. g in N.T.; cf. 3 Macc. vii. 3, where it is also used in middle, expressing to cause to be pun- ished, cf. 1 Mace. vii. 7, AS.—81a τὸν λαόν belongs not to ἀπέλυσαν, but rather to μὴ εὑρίσκ. κ.τ.λ.--ἐδόξαζον: see on ii. 46; cf. Luke ii. 20, 2 Cor. ix. 13, for the construction; the verb never has in Biblical Gr. mere classical meaning of to think, suppose, entertain an opinion (but cf. Polyb., vi., 53, 10; δεδοξασµένοι ἐπ᾽ ἀρετῇ); in the LXX very frequently of glory ascribed to God, see Plummer’s note on Luke ii. 20.
Ver. 22. ‘Characteristic of St. Luke to note the age, as in the case of A£neas, ix. 33, and of the cripple at Lystra, xiv. 8, cf. also Luke viii. 42 (although Mark also here notes the same fact), xiii. 11. The genitive with εἶναι or γίγνεσθαι, instead of the accusative, in reference to the question of age, is noted by Fried- rich as characteristic of St. Luke; ο
Luke ii. 42 (iii. 23), viii. 42, and here; but cf. Mark v. 42.--ἐγεγόνει: in this episode “with its lights and shades” Overbeck (so Baur) can only see the idealising work of myth and legend, but it is difficult to understand how a narra- tive which purports to describe the first conflict between the Church and the Sanhedrim could be free from such con- trasts, and that some collision with the authorities took place is admitted to be quite conceivable (Weizsacker, Apostolic Age, i., 46, E.T.); we should rather say that St. Luke’s power as an historian is nowhere more visible than in the dramatic form of this narrative (Ramsay, St. Paul, tu, S.).