143
6. ἀναστάντες δὲ ot 7. ᾿Ἐγένετο
Ver. 6. ἀναστάντες, see on ii. 14.— of νεώτεροι: the fact that they are called simply νεανίσκοι in ver. 10 seems deci- sive against the view that reference is made to any definite order in the Church. Nor is it certain that we can see in the fulfilment of such duties by the νεώτεροι the beginnings of the diaconate, although on the natural distinction between πρεσ- βύτεροι and νεώτεροι it may well have been that official duties in the Church were afterwards based, cf. 1 Tim. v. 1, Tit. ii. 1-6, 1 Pet. v. 5, Clem. Rom., i., 3; ili., 3; xxi.,63; Polycarp, Efist., v., 3 (cf. Luke xxii. 26). In comparatively early days it belonged to the duties of the deacons to provide for the burial of the strangers and the poor, but it seems hardly probable that ot νεώτεροι were appointed as a separate body to bury the dead, before any attempt had been made to relieve the Apostles of the more pressing duty of distributing the public funds, vi. 1. On the other hand it is possible that the company of public ‘‘buriers” whom the prophet saw in vision, Ezek. xxxix. 12-16, may have become quite customary in N.T. days. R.V. margin renders simply “the younger men ’”’.—ovvéoretkay, “wrapped him round,” R.V., probably in their own mantles (for no formal laying-out in robes can be supposed by the context), for which περιστέλλω would be the usual word, cf. Eur., Troad., 378 (see Grimm, Blass, Weiss). But Meyer on the other hand is against the parallel, and argues, fol- lowing Grotius, that the word should be rendered ‘placed him together,” 2.e., laid out or composed his limbs, so that he might be carried out more con- veniently (so too Overbeck, Holtzmann, Zockler). Vulgate, amoverunt, followed by Luther, Erasmus, Beza, cannot be said to be supported by any parallel use of the word (Ρατ. also same verb as Vulg.). The word is frequently used by medical writers in various senses, one of which, to bandage, to compress by bandaging, is that which seems to afford a possible parallel to its use here, Hobart, Medical Language, etc., pp. 37, 38. The use of the word by Josephus, A7t., xviii., 3 ; xix., 4, is not sufficient to justify us in tak- ing it here to express all the prepara- tions for burial.—éfevéyxavtes: outside the walls of the city, the usual place for graves—only prophets and kings had their graves in the city—Hamburger,
144
ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ ν.
ΔΝ ς
δὲ ὡς ὡρῶν τριῶν διάστηµα, καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ μὴ εἰδυῖα τὸ γεγονὸς
εἰσῆλθεν. 8. ἀπεκρίθη δὲ αὐτῇ 6 Πέτρος,] Εἰπέ por, εἰ τοσούτου τὸ Χωρίον ἀπέδοσθε; ἡ δὲ εἶπε, Nat, τοσούτου. 9. 6 δὲ Πέτρος εἶπε πρὸς αὐτήν, Τί ὅτι συνεφωνήθη ”” ὑμῖν πειράσαι τὸ πνεῦμα Κυρίου; ἰδοὺ οἱ πόδες τῶν θαψάντων τὸν ἄνδρα σου ἐπὶ τῇ θύρᾳ, καὶ ἐξοίσουσί σε. 1Ο. ἔπεσε δὲ παραχρῆμα παρὰ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξέψυδεν "
εἰσελθόντες δὲ οἱ νεανίσκοι εὗρον αὐτὴν νεκράν,. καὶ ἐξενέγκαντες.
1 For ειπεµονεν. «+ Hilg.; cf. Sah.
απεδ. D reads επερωτησω σε ει αρα To χ. Too. απεδ., SO
2 συνεφωνηθη, D has συνεφωνησεν, so Hilg.; but in β Blass has Τ.Ε. (see Chase on retrans. from Syriac—possibly active may be aretranslation of Latin convenit, Harris).
Real-Encyclopadie des Fudentums, i., 4, 475, ‘‘Grab”; Edersheim, Fewish Social Life, p. 169, cf. the use of ἐκφέρω and ἐκκομίζω in classical Greek, Latin, efferre. —0aav: partly for sanitary reasons, partly to avoid defilement; the interval between death and burial was very brief, especially in Jerusalem (Numb. xix. 11, Deut. xxi. 23; Hamburger, 4. s., i., 2, 161, ‘Beerdigung,” with reference to this passage, Edersheim, w. s., p. 168; for the existing custom in Jerusalem of speedy burial, see Hackett, in loco, and Schneller, Kennst du das Land? (eighth edition), p. 188).