Vv.
14. μᾶλλον δὲ προσετίθεντο
πιστεύοντες τῷ Kupiw, πλήθη ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν:) 15. ὥστε
κατὰ 1 τὰς πλατείας ἐκφέρειν τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς καὶ τιθέναι ἐπὶ κλινῶν
καὶ κραββάτων, ἵνα ἐρχομένου Πέτρου κἂν ἡ σκιὰ ἐπισκιάσῃ τινὶ
1 κατα (τας) D*P 1, Chrys., Theoph., so Meyer; και εις τας $ABD*(E), Tisch.,
W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt.
κλινων EP, Chrys., Theodrt.; κλιναριων ABD,
Cyr.-Jer., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Hilg. κραββατων B°EP ; κραβαττων ΜΑΡ"Ρ, so W.H., Weiss, Hilg.; but see Blass, Grammatik, p. 12, who reads in β, κραβατος (grabatus), and Winer-Schmiedel, p. 56. επισκιασῃ SADEP, so Tisch. (W.H. alt.), Weiss, Hilg. ; επισκιασει B 13, 31, W.H. following B, Wendt (probable). At end of verse D, Par. (Gig.!, Wern.) add απηλλασσοντο yap απο πασης ασθενειας ην ειχε εκαστος αντων, whilst E (Vulg., Lucif.) adds και ρυσθωσιν απο πασης ασ-
θενειας NS ELXOV.
Variations between D and E may be due to retranslation from
Latin, see Harris; Chase from assim. of Acts xix. 12, through Syriac ; an explanatory addition of the result of Peter’s shadow falling upon them according to Weiss, Codex D, p. 64; but Belser sees in vv. 15 and 16 in B original, revised in a.
in the dignity and office of Apostleship, properly so called, having seen the judg- ment that one of the Twelve had brought upon Ananias, one of their own number (as Lightfoot ranks Ananias amongst the hundred-and-twenty) ; (2) of non-believ- ers as contrasted with ἅπαντες; this is adopted by Blass, but it obliges him to translate κολλᾶσθαι, se εἰς immiscere= interpellare, vexare, whereas the word is more often used, as he admits, both in the Acts and in the LXX ot friendly inter-
course jJ"J) Deut. x. 20, 2 Sam. xx. 2, 2 Kings xviii. 6, Ps. cxviii. (cxix.) 31, cf. Acts viii. 29, ix. 26, x. 28, xvii. 34: (3) of the rest including 6 λαός, who stood aloof from joining their lot, but at the same time regarded them with respect ; (4) of the rest, {.6., rulers, scribes, priests, men Of position, as contrasted, ἀλλά, with the Aads, the populace, cf. iv. 21, where the same contrast is marked (so Hort, Page, Rendall), see also Luke xxi. 38. For κολλᾶσθαι see further on ver. 36. Ver. 14. μᾶλλον δέ προσετίθεντο: the favour of the people which still protected the Church (cf. ver. 17) resulted in further increase of believers, ‘‘ were the more added,” um so mehr ; imperfect, signifying the continuous growth of the Church; on the verb see ii. 41. πλήθη, plural (only here in N.T.), because not only men as in iv. 4, but women also (Weiss), but Bengel “ pluralis grandis: jam non initur numerus, uti 4, 4,” to the same effect Blass, ‘‘szpe fiebat ut magnus numerus accederet, inde plur. hic tantum N.T.”. On St. Luke’s characteristic fondness for this and similar words see iv. 32. γυναικῶν: this mention of women forms as it were an introduction to the further
mention in vi. 1 ff., cf. viii. 3, where women are again mentioned amongst the victims in the general persecution of the Church (see Plumptre’s note, zm loco). This constant reference to the share of women in the ministry of the Gospel and the life of the Church is characteristic of St. Luke in both his writings.
Ver. 15. ὥστε καὶ eis, “insomuch that they even,”’ R.V.—kata, T.R., so Alford, Meyer, ‘‘all down the streets,” as if the streets were entirely beset with sick folk (see Holtzmann, in loco),.— πλατείας, feminine of the adjective πλατύς, σο., 686s, a broad way, so here, the open streets, in classical Greek, and frequently in LXX, chiefly for Hebrew,
IMA, Tobit xiii, 17, Judith 1. 14, vii.
14, 22, 1 Macc. i. 55, ii. 9, 3 Macc. i. 18, used by St. Luke three times in his Gospel, x. 1Ο, xiii. 26, xiv. 21, but only here in Acts, see below on ix. I1. For κλινῶντεαά κλιναρίων, which is found only here in N.T., not at all in LXX, and very rarely in other Greek authors, Aristoph., Frag., 33, ᾱ, and Arrian, Epict. Diss., iii., 5, 13, where it is used for the couch of a sick person; Artem., Oneir., ii., 57. As Dr. Hobart points out, St. Luke employs no less than four different words for the beds of the sick, two in common with the other Evangel- ists, viz., κλίνη (not in John), and κρά- Barros (not in Matthew). But two are peculiar to him, viz., κλινίδιον (Luke v. 19, 24), and κλινάριον only here. Neither word is found in the LXX, but κλινίδιον, although rare elsewhere, is used in Artem., also in Plutarch, and Dion. Hal. (Antig. Rom., vii., 68), for a litter for carrying the sick, Hobart, Medical