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εἶπε δὲ τὸ Πνεῦμα τῷ Φιλίππῳ, Πρόσελθε καὶ κολλήθητι τῷ ἅρματι
Ἰ τον προφ. Ho. EHLP 61, Boh., Syr. Harcl.; Ho. τον προφ. SABC 13, 69 Vulg., Syr. Pesh., Sah., Arm., Aeth., so Tisch., W.H., R.V. See for this note v. 30
his Gospel, i. 52, and once again by St. Paul, τ Tim. vi. 15. In LXX frequent {used of God, Ecclus. xlvi. 5, 2 Macc. XV. 3, 23, etc. ; so too of Zeus by Soph.), for its meaning here cf. Gen. 1. 4, Latin, aulicus.—Kavdanns: not a per- sonal name, but said to be a name often given to queens of Ethiopia (cf. Pha- raoh, and later Ptolemy, in Egypt), Pliny, N. H., vi., 35, 7. In the time of Euse- bius, H. E., ii., 1, Ethiopia is said to be still ruled by queens, Strabo, xvii., I., 54; Bion of Sok, Ethiopica (Miller, Fragm. Hist. Grec., iv., p. 351). Ac- cording to Brugsch the spelling would be Kanta-ki: cf. “‘ Candace,” B.D.?, and “Ethiopia,” Hastings’ B.D.—ydafys: a Persian word found both in Greek and Latin (cf. Cicero, De ΟΠ, ii., 22; Virg., En.,i., 119; and see Wetstein, in loco). In LXX, Ezra vi. 1 (Esth. iv. 7), treasures ; ν. 17, Vii. 20, treasury ; vii. 21, treasurers ; cf. also Isa. xxxix. 2, and γαζοφυλάκιον in LXX, and in N.T., Luke xxi. 1, Mark xii. 41 (2), 43, John viii. 20. ‘‘ Observat Lucas, et locum, ubi prefectus Gazz Philippo factus est obviam, Gazam fuisse vocatum’”’? Wetstein; see also on the nomen et omen Felten and Plumptre, and compare on the word Jerome, Epist., cviii., 11. If the second ὅς is retained (R.V.) it emphasises the fact that the eunuch was already a proselyte Weiss).—tpookuvyio ων: proves not that (he was a Jew, but that he was not a heathen (Hackett). The proselytes, as well as foreign Jews, came to Jerusalem to worship. We cannot say whether he had gone up to one of the feasts; St. Chrysostom places it to his credit that he had gone up at an unusual time.
Ver. 28. ἅρματος: the chariot was regarded as a mark of high rank: very frequent word in LXX, but in N.T. only here, and in Rev. ix. 9, cf. xviii. 13. ‘‘Chariot,’’ Hastings’ B.D., properly in classics a war-chariot, but here for ἁρμά- µαξα, a covered chariot (Blass), Herod., Vii., 4τ.---ἀνεγίνωσκεν: evidently aloud, according to Eastern usage; there is no need to suppose that some slave was read- ‘ing to him (Olshausen, Nosgen, Blass). _As the following citation proves, he was
reading from the LXX, and the wide- spread knowledge of this translation in Egypt would make it probable a priort (Wendt), cf. Professor Margoliouth, “Ethiopian Eunuch,” Hastings’ B.D. It may be that the eunuch had bought the roll in Jerusalem ‘“‘a pearl of great price,”’ and that he was reading it for the first time ; ver. 34 is not quite consistent with the supposition that he had heard in Jerusalem rumours of the Apostles’ preaching, and of their reference of the prophecies to Jesus of Nazareth: Philip is represented as preaching to him Jesus, and that too as good news. ‘The eunuch came to worship—great was also his studiousness—observe again his piety, but though he did not understand he read, and after reading, examines,” Chrys., Hom., xix., and Jerome, Efist., liii., 5. See also Corn. a Lapide, in loco, on the diligence and devotion of the eunuch. Ver. 29. τὸ πνεῦμα εἶπεν: nothing inconsistent with the previous statement that an angel had spoken to him, as Weiss supposes by referring the angel visit to a reviser. There was no reason why the angel should accompany Philip, or reappear to him, whilst the inward guidance of the Spirit would be always present, as our Lord had promised.— κολλήθητι, cf. ν. 13, in Acts five times, and in each case of joining or attaching oneself closely to a person, of social or religious communion with a person, twice in Luke’s Gospel, cf. xv. 15 for its sense here, and elsewhere only once in the Evangelists, Matt. xix. 5, and that in a quotation, Gen. ii. 24, cf. its use three times in St. Paul, Rom. xii. 9, 1 Cor. vi. 16, 17. In classical Greek similar usage, and cf. LXX, Ruth ii. 8, Ecclus. ii. 3, xix. 2, 1 Macc. iii. 2, vi. 21, etc. Hebrew