pat , see Wetstein on x. 28. — οι
Ver. 30. προσδραμὼν δὲ: rightly taken to indicate the eagerness with which Philip obeyed.—Apa ye—the ye strengthens the dpa, dost thou really understand? num igitur? ρα without ye is only found elsewhere in Luke xviii. 8, and in Gal. ii. 17 (W.H., and also Lightfoot, Galatians, l.c.), see Blass, in
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, 4 Sc ” 9 ol , τούτω. 30. προσδραμὼν δὲ 6 Φίλιππος ἤκουσεν αὐτοῦ ἀναγινώσκοντος
3 τὸν προφήτην Ἡσαῖαν. καὶ εἶπεν, Apa ye γινώσκεις ἃ ἀναγινώσκεις ;
31. 6 δὲ εἶπε, Πῶς γὰρ ἂν δυναίµην, ἐὰν µή τις ὁδηγήσῃ] µε;
Lg a παρεκάλεσέ τε τὸν Φίλιππον ἀναβάντα καθίσαι σὺν αὐτῷ.
32. ἡ δὲ
a a a a > / = or “cf / - περιοχἡ τῆς γραφῆς ἣν ἀνεγινωσκεν, nv αυτη, ** Qs πρόβατον ἐπὶ
ΔΝ , , σφαγὴν ἤχθη. καὶ ὡς dpvds ἐναντίον τοῦ KelpovTos” αὐτὸν ἄφωνος,
cr 3 5 / 9 / > a ουτως ουκ ανοιγει το στοµα αυτου.
33. ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει αὐτοῦ ἡ
κρίσις αὐτοῦ ἤρθη,ὃ τὴν δὲ γενεὰν αὐτοῦ τίς διηγήσεται ; ὅτι αἴρεται
! oSnynon AB*HLP, Chrys., so Blass, Weiss; οδηγησει ΦΒΊΟΕ 13, so Tisch.,
W.H., R.V., Wendt, Hilg.
2 ketpovtos BP, Orig., so Lach., W.H. text, Blass, Weiss; κειραντος NACEHL, Chrys., so Tisch., W.H. marg., Hilg. But as Wendt points out, readings vary as
in LXX.
Sev TH ταπει. .
. - ηρθη D, Par., Iren. omit.
Blass brackets in B; may have
been a “‘ Western non-interpolation,” or the omission may have been for shortness. αυτου CEHLP, Syrr. (P. and H.), several verss., Chrys.; om. SAB, Vulg., Irint., so
Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, so LXX.
loco, and Grammatik, p. 254. In LXX very rare, see Hatch and Redpath, sub v., and Viteau, Le Grec du Ν. Τ., p. 22 (1893).—yuw. & avay.: for paronomasia, see Blass, Gram., p. 292, where other instances in N.T. are given, and also Wetstein, in loco. Julian’s well-known saying with reference to the Christian writings, and the famous retort, are quoted by Alford, Plumptre, Page, Meyer- Wendt, zn loco.
Ver. 31. yap; “ elegans particula hoc sensu quid quaeris?” implies, Why do you ask? for how should I be able? (cf. Matt. xxvii. 23, Mark xv. 14, Luke xxiii. 22); see Simcox, Language of N. T. Greck, p. 172; Grimm-Thayer, sub v., I. ---ἂν δυναίµην: optative with ἂν; occurs only in Luke, both in his Gospel and Acts, expressing what would happen on the fulfilment: of some supposed condi- tion: see, for a full list of passages, Bur- ton, N. T. Moods and ‘Tenses, p. 80; Simcox, “. δ., Ῥ. 112: twice in direct questions, here and in xvii. 18, but only in this passage is the condition expressed, cf. also Viteau, Le Grec du N. Τ., pp. 33 and 66 (1803).--ὁδηγήσῃ, see critical notes, and Blass, Grammatik, p. 210; if we read future indicative it will be an instance of a future supposition thus ex- pressed with more probability, Burton, µ. S., pp. 104, 105, 109, and see also Simcox, note on the passage, 1. S., Ῥ. 112. Burton compares Luke xix. 40 (W.H.), see also Viteau, Η. s., pp. 4, IIT, 226, whilst Blass maintains that there is no one certain example of this usage of
ἔάν with future indicative. The word used here (‘‘ insignis modestia eunuchi,” Calvin) is used also by our Lord Himself for the Holy Spirit’s leading and guid- ance, John xvi. 13, and also in the LXX, as in the Psalms, of divine guidance. --παρεκάλεσέν: “he besought,’ Ε.Υ. (‘‘desired” A.V.), the word is rightly taken to denote both the humility and . the earnestness of the eunuch (Bengel) : a verb frequent both in St. Luke and St. Paul, six or seven times in Gospel, twenty-two or twenty-three times in Acts. —re: note the closing connecting par- ticle, showing the necessary result of the question (Weiss). 4
Ver. 32. περιοχὴ τῆς γραφῆς ‘the contents of the passage of Scripture”’ z.¢., the one particular passage, Isa. lili. 7, δ (so Meyer-Wendt, Holtzmann, Hackett), cf. i. 16, and 1 Pet. Π. 6: περιέχει ἐν τῇ γραφῇ and ταύτης in νετ. 35 below; περιοχή has been taken to mean a- section, as in Cicero, Epist. ad Att., xiii., 25 (so in Codex A, before the Gospel of St. Mark, its περιοχαί, i.e., sectiones, are prefixed), but in Cicero also Meyer- Wendt take the word to mean the contents of a passage, cf. notes, edit. 1888 and 1899; see also Felten and Plumptre, in loco. St. Chrysostom apparently takes ypady here as=at γραφαί, “totum corpus scripturae sacre,’’? see Blass, in loco, but if so, the plural would be used as always; see above references and Light-. foot on Gal., iii., 22. The fact that the eunuch was reading Isaiah is mentioned by St. Chrysostom as another indication,