35---36.
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36. πρὸ γὰρ τούτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀνέστη Θευδᾶς, λέγων εἶναί τινα
ἑαυτόν,! ᾧ
προσεκολλήθη ? ἀριθμὸς ἀνδρῶν ὡᾠσεὶ τετρακοσίων: ὃς
ἀνηρέθη.ὃ καὶ πάντες ὅσοι ἐπείθοντο αὐτῷ διελύθησαν καὶ ἐγένοντο
1 εαντον NA*BCHP, Vulg., Sah., Boh., Syr. Harcl., Arm., Eus., Chrys., so Tisch., W.H., R.V.; εαντον peyav (ΟΥ µεγαν εαυτον) A*DE tol., Flor., Gig., Syr. Pesh.,
Όνα», Οσ., Εματ.
Ὁπροσεκολληθη 13, Chrys., ΟΥτ.; προσεκλιθη SABC? 17, 31, Cyr., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt (Blass in B), Hilg. ; προσεκληθη 0"Ρ"ΕΗΡ- προσεκλιθη
orig. only here in N.T., others = interpretations of it.
ωσει SVHP, Cyr.; but ως
NcABCDE, Chrys., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Hilg.
ἕ ανῃρεθη, instead D has διελυθη αυτος δι αυτου (διελυθησαν omitted below). Eus. and Par. read κατελυθη (the latter dissolutus est = διελ. or κατελ.) ; see Blass, who maintains with Belser that this word rather than ανηρεθη is required by Gamaliel’s
argument, but why ?
εγεν. in Par.’ but διελ. (dissoluti sunt) retained.
αυτῳ, after this word διελ. omitted by D, και om. in d, and και
(Weiss holds that the corrector
refers ος the subject of κατελυθη not to Θευδας but to αριθµος.)
against Gamaliel’s appearance as a mem- ber of the Council, cf. Derenbourg, w. s., ΡΡ. 201, 213. On the words attributed to Gamaliel see below.—vopodiSdoKados: only in St. Luke and St. Paul, cf. Luke v. 17, 1 Tim. i. 7, almost = ypappartets, νομικός, not found in LXX.—Bpayv (τι): = ‘ta little while,’ R.V., Luke xxii. 58, ‘‘a little space,” A.V.; ambiguous, in classical Greek the word might be used as either βραχύ, a short distance, Xen., Anab., iii., 3, 7, or ἐν βραχέϊ, “ina short time,” Herod., v., 24, cf. Thuc., vi., 12. In Acts xxvii. 28 the word may be taken either of space or time (see Blass). In the LXX it is used of space in 2 Sam. xvi. 1, and 2 Sam. xix. 36, and most likely of degree in Psalm viii. 6 (although the expression may be taken of time, cf. Heb. ii. 7,9, R.V.), and of time in Psalm xciii. 17, and in Isa. lvii. 17 (Weiss, Westcott; but see Hatch and Redpath, doubtful). But whether we take the word of space or time in this passage, it is noteworthy that St. Luke alone of the N.T. writers can be said to use βραχύ temporally (in Hebrews it is a quotation), Friedrich, and so Kloster- mann, Vindicie Lucana, p. 54.—¢&w ποιεῖν (hinausthun): only here in this sense, cf. Blass, in loco, for classical instances, and cf. Psalm cxli. 8 (Sym- machus)—Weiss, Wendt.
Ver. 35. ἄνδρες ᾿Ισραηλεῖται, see on ii, 22. προσέχετε ἑαυτοῖς: phrase only found in St. Luke, cf. Luke xii. 1, xvii. 3, xxi. 34, and Acts xx. 28. προσέχειν without the pronoun is found six times in Matthew alone of the Evangelists, but in LXX frequently used in the phrase πρόσεχε σεαυτῷ. The phrase may be connected with ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τού-
τοις, ‘fas touching these men, what you are about to do,” R.V., hence the reading ἀπὸ τῶν, εἴο., E. Or we may take it with µέλλετε πράσσειν, “what you are about to do to these men”. In favour of the latter it may be said that the construction πράσσειν τι ἐπί τινι is very common, whereas προσέχειν ἑαυτοῖς is never found in construction with ἐπί, and that this rendering rightly marks the evidently emphatic position of τοῖς ἀνθρώποις (so Weiss, Wendt, Holtz- mann, Hackett).—ri µέλλετε πράσσειν, quid acturi sitis, Vulgate. Burton, N. T. Moods and Tenses, p. 36, µέλλειν never found with future infinitive except in the phrase µέλλειν ἔσεσθαι used in Acts, almost always has a present in- finitive, although its force is akin to that of the future (Grimm-Thayer) ; also Simcox, Language of the Ν. T., p. 120. µέλλειν is used over thirty times in Acts in all its parts, and is found very often in St. Luke’s Gospel.