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40. Φίλιππος δὲ εὑρέθη cis "Αἴωτον: καὶ
διερχόµενος εὐηγγελίζετο τὰς πόλεις πάσας, ἕως τοῦ ἐλθε-ν αὐτὸν
eis Καισάρειαν.ὶ
1 Καισαρειαν BCHLP, so Blass, Weiss, Hilg.; Καισαριαν ΝΝΑΕ 61, so T sch., W.H. (see W.H., App., p. 160, and Winer-Schmiedel, p. 45).
cf. xxi. 13; Or, aS εἷς means more than év, implying that he had come into the city and was staying there, cf. Esth. 1. 5 ; marg. Hebrew “found,” A.V., εὑρίσκω,
NNN, is very often found in the LXX
in similar phrases, e.g., 1 Chron. xxix. 17, 2 Chron. xxxi. 1, 1 Sam. xiii. 15, etc. The word may imply, however, much more than the fact that Philip was present at Azotus, and Alford sees in it a pro- bable reference to 2 Kings ii. 17 (ef. passages in O.T. above), where the same word is used, εὑρέθη. Blass takes it to mean ‘‘ vento quasi ibi dejectus,” but see
above on νετ. 39.—Afwrov, TIT «
only mentioned here in N.T., but in LXX Ashdod, Josh. xi. 22, xiii. 3, xv. 46, 1 Sam. v. 5, 2 Chron. xxvi. 6, Neh. iv. 7, xiii. 20, Jer. xx. 20, xlvii. 5, Amos i. 8, Zeph. ti. 4, Zech. ix. 6; Azotus in 1 Macc. v. 18, x.84; Herod., ii., 157: Herod. speaks of the siege of the twenty-nine years under Psammetichus as the longest in history (€ = σδ, as in "RQpopalys, Ahuramazda, Blass, in loco). An old Philistine town, and one of the five chief cities—it might be regarded as the half-way station on the great road between Gaza and Joppa. Schirer holds that the population was Jewish to a considerable extent, as we find that Vespasian was obliged to place a garrison there (Jos., B. $., iv., 3, 2); it is now a mere village of no impor- tance, and still bearing the name Esdid. Schirer, ¥ewish People, div. ii., vol. i., ΡΡ. 62, 67 ff., E.T.; G. A. Smith, Hist. Geog. of the HolyLand, pp. 192, 193; Ham- burger, Real-Encyclopddie des fudentums, i., I, 124, “Ashdod,” B.D.?, ‘‘ Azotus,”’ and also Col. Conder sub v., Hastings’ Ἐ.Γ.-- διερχόμενος εὐηγγελ., see above on νετ. 4 and also xiii. 6, and ef. Luke ix. 6 for a similar combination of the two νετΏς.- τὰς πόλεις πάσας: from their position between Azotus and Czsarea, Lydda and Joppa may well have been included, cf. ix. 32, 36, in which we may see something of the effects of St. Philip’s preaching, “hic quoque, uti in urbe Samariz, Apostolis auditores przparavit,” Bengel. — Και- σαρείαν (mentioned no less than fifteen
times in Acts): its full name was Και- σαρεία Σεβαστή, so named by Herod the Great in honour of Augustus (Jos., Ant., xvi., 5, I); sometimes also παρά- λιος or ἡ ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ (Jos., B. F., iii., 9, I; Vil., I, 3); it was also called. εε Straton’s Tower” (cf. K. 4 Στράτωνος, Apost. Const., vi., 12), although it was virtually a fresh site. Schirer derives this latter name from Straton, the name of one or more of the last kings of Sidon, who towards the end of the. Persian period were probably in possession of the strip of coast upon which the tower was built (Schirer, µ. s., div. ii., vol. i., p- 84 ff.). Herod’s lavish expenditure: and enlargement gave it such impor- tance that it came to be called Caput Fudaee, Tacitus, Hist., ii., 79, 7.2, of the Roman Province, for it never could be called truly Judean. For its magnificence, see Jos., Ant., xv., 9; Bo ο ιο οἱ πα πμ Ee was a seaport suited to his taste, which Herod wanted, and in Czsarea he found it—‘‘ Joppa, Jerusalem’s port, was Jewish, national, patriotic ; Czsarea, Herodian, Roman in obedience, Greek in culture”. The buildings were magnificent—a temple with its two statues of Augustus and of Rome, a theatre, an amphitheatre; but above all, the haven was the chief work of art, Sebastos Limen, so large and important that the name of the city was even dwarfed beside it (see especially Dr. G. A. Smith, 11. s., Ῥ. 140). Here the Roman procurators had their abode, both before and after Agrippa’s reign; here, too, was the chief garrison of the troops of the province. The population was chiefly heathen, but with a considerable mixture of Jews, and so both Gentile and Jew had equal rights, while each claimed ex- clusive powers. In the time of Felix things came to sucha pass that blood- shed ensued, and Felix exasperated the Jews by leaving the sole direction of the town in the hands of the heathen party. It was this which in the first place pro- voked the great rising of the Jews, A.D. 66 (Jos., Ant., xx., 8, 7,9; B. F., il, 13, 7; 14, 4, 5). The war broke out, and, according to Josephus, all the Jewish in-