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παρεδίδου eis φυλακήν. εὐαγγελιζόμενοι τὸν λόγον.]
Vill.
4. ol μὲν οὖν διασπαρέντες διῆλθον,
1 διηλθον; for this word Gig., Par., Wern. seem to have read επορευοντο, ibant. After λογον Par., Wern. and other Latin authorities add ‘circa (per) civitates et castella Jude,” κατα τας πολεις και κωµας της |., Blass in B, evidently for the sake of clearness, as also in previous επορ., cf. Wendt. After λογον E, Vulg., Par?, Wern.
add του θεου, again addition apparently for clearness (if not omission).
Blass rejects
in B; where 6 λόγος is used in Acts in this sense we almost always have this addition
or του Kuptov.
padie des fudentums, i., 7,996, ‘‘ Trauer ” ; Edersheim, Fesus the Messiah, i., p. 616, and Sketches of fewish Social Life, p. 172 ff. Ifthe mourners included Jews as well as Jewish Christians, it may well have been that the lamentation was not only a token of sorrow and respect, but also in the nature of a protest on the part of the more moderate section of the Pharisees (see also Trench’s remarks, u. s., Ῥ. 198). According to the tradition accepted by St. Augustine, it is said that both Gamaliel and Nicodemus took part in the burial of Stephen, and were after- wards laid in the same grave (Felten, Apostelgeschichte, p. 167, and Plumptre in loco).
Ver. 3. ἐλυμαίνετο: deponent verb, used in classical Greek of personal out- rage (Avpy), of scourging and torturing, of outraging the dead, of the ruin and devastation caused by an army (Wet- stein). In the LXX it is found several times, cf. especially Ps. Ixxix. (lxxx.) 13, of a wild boar ravaging a vineyard, and cf. also Ecclus. xxviii. 23. As the word is used only by St. Luke it is possible that it may have been suggested by its frequent employment in medical lan- guage, where it is employed not only of injury by wrong treatment, but also of the ravages of disease, Hobart, Medical Lan- guage, pp. 211, 212. R.V. renders “laid waste,” A.V. (so Tyndale) ‘‘ made havoc οἱ,’ but the revisers have rendered πορθέω by the latter, cf Acts ix. 21, Gal. i. 3. St. Paul’s description of himself as ὑβρισ- Ts, I Tim. i. 13, may well refer to the infliction of personal insults and injuries, as expressed here by λυμαίνομαι (cf. Paley, Hore Pauline, xi., 5).—rhv ἐκ- κλησίαν, 1.ε., the Church just mentioned at Jerusalem—Saul’s further persecution, even to Damascus, probably came later (Hort, Ecclesia, p. 53).—kara τοὺς οἴκους εἰσπορ.: the expression may denote ‘‘ en- tering into every house,’”’ R. and A.V., or perhaps, more specifically, the houses known as places of Christian assembly, the ἐκκλησίαι κατ οἶκον, see on ii. 46.
In any case the words, as also those which follow, show the thoroughness and relentlessness of Saul’s persecuting zeal. --σύρων: haling, {.ε., hauling, dragging (schlappend), cf. James ii. 6. The word is used by St. Luke three times in Acts (only twice elsewhere in N.T.), and he alone uses κατασύρω, Luke xii. 58, in the same sense as the single verb (where St. Matthew has wapado). For its employ- ment in the Comic Poets see Kennedy, Sources of N. T. Greek, p. 76, and also Arrian, Epfict., i. 29, 22, and other in- stances in Wetstein; cf. LXX, 2 Sam. xvii. 13, 4 Macc. vi. 1, ἔσυραν ἐπὶ τὰ βασανιστήρια τὸν Ἐλ.--γυναῖκας: re- peated also in ix. 2, and xxii. 4, as indicating the relentless nature of the persecution. Some of the devout and ministering women may well have been included, Luke viii. 2, 3, Acts i. 14.
Ver. 4. οἱ μὲν οὖν: marking a general statement, δὲ in following verse, intro- ducing a particulas mstance (so Rendall, Appendix on μὲν οὖν, Acts, p. 162, and see also p. 64).--διῆλθον: the word is constantly used of missionary journeys in Acts, cf. v. 40, xi. 19, ix. 32 (Luke ix. 6), cf. xiii. 6, ποῖθ.--εὐαγγελιζόμενοι: it is a suggestive fact that this word is only used once in the other Gospels (Matt. xi. 5 by our Lord), but no less than ten times in St. Luke’s Gospel, fifteen in Acts, and chiefly elsewhere by St. Paul; truly ‘fa _ missionary word,” see ver. 12. Simcox, Language of the N. Τ., p. 79, speaks of its intro-