said of Enoch ἡρπάγη. Both in classical Greek and in the LXX the word implies forcible or sudden seizure (John vi. 15). ---καὶ οὐκ εἶδεν . . . ἐπορεύετο γὰρ κ.τ.λ. If these two clauses are closely connected as by R.V., they do not simply state that the eunuch went on his own way (Rendall), (in contrast with Philip who went his way), rejoicing in the good news which he had heard, and in the baptism which he had received; and R.V. punctuation surely need not prevent the disappearance of Philip from being viewed as mysterious, even if the words καὶ οὐκ εἶδον αὐτὸν οὐκέτι do not imply this. Moreover αὐτοῦ may rather emphasise the fact that the eunuch went his way, which he would not have done had he seen Philip, but would perhaps have followed him who had thus en- lightened his path (so Weiss, in loco, reading αὐτοῦ τῆν ὁδόν---αὐτοῦ emphatic: see also St. Chrysostom’s comment {η loco).—xatpwv: “the fruit of the Spirit is... joy,’ Gal. v. 22 (the word at the end of a clause is characteristic of Luke ; Luke xv. 5, xix. 6, see Vogel, p. 45). Eusebius describes the eunuch, to whom he gives the name of Indich, as the first preacher to his countrymen of the tidings of great joy, and on the possible reception in the earliest Christian times of the Gospel message in the island of Meroé at least, see ‘‘ Ethiopian Church,” Dict. ο Christ. Biog., Π., 234 (Smith & Wace). In the conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch men have seen the first fulfilment of the ancient prophecy, Ps. Ixviii. 31 (Luckock, Footprints of the Apostles as traced by St Luke, Ἱ., 219, and C. and H., p. 66).
Ver. 40. εὑρέθη els “A.: constructio pregnans = was borne to and found at,
A , τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ Χαίρων.