Ver. 5. µετάπεμψαι: middle, his mes sengers were to perform his wishes; only in Acts in N.T., where it occurs nine times, but found twice in LXX and in Maccabees; so too mostly in the middle in classical writers, although the active is also found in same sense.—Z{peva (twa), see critical notes; as unknown to Cornelius, marked out by his surname as the one of the many who were called Simon. j
Ver. 6. §evilerat, see ver. 33.— mapa θάλασσαν: perhaps to secure water for the purpose of his trade, perhaps because it seems that a tanner was not allowed to carry on his business unless outside the walls of a town, see on ix. 43, at a distance of fifty cubits, see Wendt, in loco; Hackett, p. 135.
Ver. 7. οἰκετῶν: one related to the οἶκος, a milder and a narrower term than δοῦλος, which would simply de-
4—Il.
αν
A , 2 A . 3 3 ο) o τῶν προσκαρτερούντων αὐτῷ, 8. καὶ ἐξηγησάμενος αὐτοῖς ἅπαντα,
ἀπέστειλεν αὐτοὺς εἲς τὴν Ιόππην. ο. TH δὲ ἐπαύριον ὁδοιπορούντων ἐκείνων καὶ TH πόλει ἐγγιζόντων, ἀνέβη Πέτρος ἐπὶ τὸ δῶμα προσεύξ-
‘ ο φ ασθαι, περὶ ὥραν ἕκτην.
ΤΟ. ἐγένετο δὲ πρόσπεινος, καὶ ἤθελε
γεύσασθαι" παρασκευαζόντων δὲ ἐκείνων, ἐπέπεσεν { ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν έκστασις,
II. καὶ θεωρεῖ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνεωγμένον, καὶ καταβαῖνον ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν
σκεῦός τι ὡς ὀθόνην μεγάλην, τέσσαρσιν ἀρχαῖς” δεδεµένον, καὶ
1 επεπεσεν, but εγενετο in NABC 40, 61, Boh., Or., Did., so Tisch., W.H., R.V.,
Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.
}δεδεμενον και om. NABC?E go, Vulg., Boh., Aeth., Or., so Tisch., W.H., R.V.,
- Weiss, Blass (but see crit. below), Wendt (as against Meyer).
d, Gig., Par. (Syr.
Harcl.), Apost. Const. (Hilg.) read τεσσ. αρχαις δεδ. σκενος Te ws οθονην λαμπραν καθ. επι της γης, SO Blass in β, “ recte fort. ”’ (cf., xi. 5).
note ownership; more closely associated with the family than other servants, οἰκέτας τε καὶ δούλους, cf. Rom. xiv. 4, 1 Pet. ti. 1δ.---εὐσεβῆ: not of itself showing that the soldier had entered into any relationship with the Jews, but in connection with ver. 2 it can scarcely imply less than in the case of Cornelius; of each it might be said, as of St. Paul in his service of Christ, δουλεύων τῷ Κ. μετὰ πάσης Ταπεινο- φροσύνης (xx. 19), and both master and servant were about to become οἰκέται of a nobler household : οἰκεῖοι τοῦ Θεοῦί and συμπολῖται τῶν ἁγίων; see xi. 14. -- προσκαρτερούντων, see above on chap. i. 14. A good reference is given by Wendt to Dem., 1386, 6, θεραπείνας τὰς Νεαίρᾳ τότε προσκαρτερούσας (so too Polyb., xxiv., 5, 3); but see on the other hand Blass, im loco. Kuinoel supposes that they acted as house-sentries, but there is no need to limit the service to that; cf. viii. 13, and LXX, Susannah, ver. 6.
Ver. 8. ἐξηγησάμενος ἅπαντα: only in Luke in N.T., except once in John1. 18, cf. Luke xxiv. 35, Acts xv. 12, 14, xxl. 1ο, andin LXX, Judg. vii. 13, 1 Chron. xvi. 24, 2 Kings viii. 5, etc. The word plainly suggests the mutual confidence existing between Cornelius and his household (ἄπαντα, as if nothing were forgotten in the communication), Weiss.
Ver. ο. ὅδον.: the distance was thirty miles; only here in N.T., not LXX; but ὁδοιπορία is found in N.T. and LXX; ὁδοιπόρος in LXX απά Ecclus., but not in N.T.: all three words are found in classical Greek. It is perhaps to be noted that the word here used was also much employed in medical
language (Hobart).—8@pa: sometimes. taken here to mean a room on the roof, o1 an upper room, but the idea of prayer under the free canopy of heaven is better fitting to the vision ; see Kennedy, Sources of N. T. Greek, p. 121; = flat roof in N.T. and LXX; in modern Greek = terrace. — περὶ ὥραν ἕκτην: about swelve o’clock, midday ; see G. A. Smith, Hist. Geog., pp. 138-142.