Ver. 16. ἐγὼ yap: he is a chosen vessel unto me, and therefore ὑποδ. Wendt disagrees with Meyer, who finds the showing in the experiences of the sufferings (so Hackett and Felten), and
I3—I9. ΠΡΑΞΕΙΣ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΩΝ 237 16. ἐγὼ γὰρ ὑποδείξω αὐτῷ, ὅσα δεῖ αὐτὸν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματός µου παθεῖν. 17-1 ᾽Απῆλθε δὲ ᾽Ανανίας καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν, καὶ ἐπιθεὶς ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν τὰς χεῖρας εἶπε, Σαοὺλ ἀδελφέ, ὁ Κύριος ἀπέσταλκέ µε, Ιησοῦς ὁ ὀφθείς σοι ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ᾖ ἤρχου, ὅπως ἀναβλέψης καὶ πλησθῇς Πνεύματος Αγίου. 18. καὶ εὐθέως ἀπέπεσον ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ λεπίδες, ἀνέβλεψέτε παραχρῆμα,” καὶ ἀναστὰς ἐβαπτίσθη, καὶ λαβὼν τροφὴν ἐνίσχυσεν.Σ 19. Ἐγένετο δὲ 6 Σαῦλος μετὰ τῶν ἐν
1 Blass, following Flor., reconstructs (60 very simil. Hilg.) τοτε εγερθεις (as if the vision came in sleep; cf. Corssen, G. G. A., p. 437 (1896), who thinks that the expression is an interpolation and compares β text in xvi. g ff., p. 436, u. 5.) Αν. απηλθεν και εισ. εις την οικ.; 50 again Flor. has επεθηκε αυτῳ THY χειρα εν τῷ ονοµ. I. Χ. λεγων.
2 wapaxpynpa om. ΝΑΡΟΗΡ, Vulg., Boh., Syr. Pesh., Arm., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt. gC? 40, Boh. read δε instead of τε.
3 ενισχυσεν, so Tisch., Blass, Weiss, Hilg.; ενισχυθη BC*, so W.H., Wendt (probably). 6 Σαυλος om. SABCE 13, 61, Vulg., many vers., so Tisch., W.H., R.V.; beginning, perhaps, of a Church lectionary. Flor. reads ‘‘ dies autem plurimos et in Ccivitate. D cum discentibus transegit,” perhaps some influence of xvi. 12, xiv. 28, xxv. 14. Blass suspects Δαμασκφῳ and brackets in B. Blass places St. Paul’s visit to
Arabia before this period, a visit which St. Luke omits.
refers the word with De Wette, Over- beck, to a revelation or to some directing counsel of Christ, cf. xiti. 2, xvi. 6, 9, xx. 20, SO too Blass—cf. 2 Cor. xi. 25-28. Either interpretation seems better than that of Weiss, who refers the yap back to wopevov, as if Christ were assuring Ananias that Saul would not inflict suffering upon others, but J will show him how much he (αὐτόν, with emphasis) must suffer, etc., cf. also Bengel’s comment.
Ver. 17. ἐπιθεὶς ἐπ᾽ a. τὰς χ.: not as bestowing the Holy Ghost (for see context), but as recovering from his blindness, cf. Mark xvi. 18. Σαούλ, see on ver. 4, perhaps too the word used by Jesus would reassure Saul.— ἀδελφέ: as a Christian brother, and not merely as a brother in nationality, ii. 29, xxii. 1, xxvill. I7—for the word sec further, Kennedy, p. 95, and see on i. 15.— 6K... . Ιησοῦς: the words must have further reassured Saul—the title by which he had himself addressed Jesus i¢ more than justified.
Ver. 18. καὶ εὐθέως: as the imme- diate result of the laying on of hands the recovery of sight is given, but the baptism follows for the reception of the Holy Ghost, cf. xxii. 13 ff.—émémweoov - +» ὡσεὶ λ.: the words cannot be taken as merely figurative with Weiss or Zéck- ler, or with Blass as merely indicating the speediness of the cure—some scaly
substance had formed over the eyes, probably as the result of the dazzling brightness which had struck upon them, cf. Tobit iii. 17, xi. 13, and ii. το (cf. vi. 8), λευκώματα = white films (see H. and R., sub v., λεύκωμα). St. Chrysostom’s comment is also to be noted: καὶ ἵνα μὴ νοµίσῃ φαντασίαν τις εἶναι τὴν πήρωσιν, διὰ τοῦτο ai λεπίδες. Here, as else- where, we may see traces of St. Luke’s accuracy as a physician. Both ἀποπίπ- τειν and λεπίς are used only by St. Luke in N.T. (λεπίς, although found six times in LXX, does not occur in the sense before us), and both words are found conjoined in medical writers, the former for the falling off of scales from the cuticle and particles from the diseased parts of the body or bones, etc., and λεπίς as the regular medical term for the particles or scaly substances thrown off from the body (see instances in Hobart, p. 39, and Felten, in loco), and ¢f. also Zahn, Ein- leitung in das N. Τ., Π., Ρ. 436 (1899).— ἀναστὰς, see above on viii. 26; the word may here be taken literally (although not necessarily so), as of Saul rising from a sitting or reclining position (so Weiss). ---ἐβαπτίσθη: no doubt by Ananias— there was no reception into the Church without this.—AaBov τροφὴν, see on νετ. 9.—évioxvoev: here used intran- sitively (1 Macc. vii. 25, 3 Mace. ii. 32), if we adopt readmg of Τ.Κ. which ts