‘Ver. 7. ἐγένετο δὲ . . « καὶ, cf. for construction Luke ν. 1, 17, viii. I, 22, ix. 51, xiv. 1, etc. Hebraistic, if not strictly a Hebraism; on καί thus uniting two co-ordinate statements with ἐγένετο see Plummer’s valuable note, p. 45; St. Luke, first edition ; and on the use of καί see Simcox, Language of the N. Τ., pp. 161, 162; Blass, Grammatik des Ν. G., pp. 256, 257.--διάστηµα: as if anomina- tive absolute, here parenthetical from ὡς, cf. Luke ix. 28. Cf. Viteau, Le Grec du N.T., p. 83 (1896). St. Luke alone uses διάστηµα (only here in N.T.), cf. Polyb., ix., I, 1; διάστηµα τετραετές, and the verb διίστηµι, cf. Luke xxii. 59, xxiv. 51, Acts xxvii. 28. In Apocryph. Act. Andrea, 14, we have ἡμιωρίου διάστηµα (Lumby), and in LXX, cf. Ecclesiast., prol., 24, 3 Macc. iv. 17.—@s = ὡσεί, fere, cf. i. 15, ii. 4, etc.—@pav τριῶν: Nésgen supposes the approach of the next hour of prayer in this mention of the time, μὴ pro od (Blass), see also Lumby’s note.
Ver. 8. τοσούτου, monstrat pecuniam, Blass, so Zéckler, Holtzmann, Felten, Weiss, and others: genitive of the price. The position of the word in the question is emphatic, cf. Luke xv. 29. Blass
would render non pluris (Bornemann, tantilli), but this is implied rather than expressed by the word here (see Wendt’s note for classical instances). The question of St. Peter and the emphatic reply of Sapphira show that opportunity was given her by the inquiry to retract, and that she wilfully persisted in her sin (Chrys.; so Calvin, ‘‘tempus ΠΠ ad resipiscendum datur’’),
Ver. 9. Tt ὅτι, ver. 4. συνεφωνήθη: only here in the N.T. in the passive, for its use in the active, xv. 15. Blass main- tains that this passive usage συμφωνεῖταί τισι is Latin rather than Greek (con- venit inter aliquos), and that it may have arisen from the intercourse between Greeks and Romans, see in loco, and Grammatik des N. G., pp. 112, 235: in LXX only in the active. Cf. also Viteau, Le Grec du N. Τ., p. 155 (1893). ‘The aggravation was that they committed the deed as with one soul, just as upon a settled compact between them,” Chrys., Hom., xii.; cf. the plural ἀπέδοσθε.--- πειράσαι: the rendering “to tempt,” does not seem to express the idea so well as “to try,” to make trial whether the Holy Ghost would discover their de- ception, whether He knew all things: cf. xv. 10, and in LXX, Exod. xvii. 2, 7, Ps, Ixxvii. (Ixxviii.) 41, 56, etc. (in Rev. ii. 2 the same verb as here = “try,” A. and R.V.).—i8ov, see oni. 1Ο. of πόδες, cf. Luke 1. 79, Rom. iii: 15, x. 15. A Hebraistic expression—the whole de- scription is full of dramatic intensity— the returning steps of the νεώτεροι are heard ἐπὶ tq θύρᾳ. But Alford thinks that they were probably bare-footed, and that the words mean that the time was just at hand for their return, cf. James ν. 9.— ἐξοίσουσίν σε, see on ver. 6.
Ver. 10. παραχρῆμα, see on iii. 7. The introduction of the word shows that
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