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17. Ὡς δὲ ἐν ἑαυτῷ ! διηπόρει 6 Πέτρος, τί ἂν ein τὸ ὅραμα ὃ Eide, καὶ ἰδού, οἱ ἄνδρες οἱ ἀπεσταλμένοι ἀπὸ τοῦ Κορνηλίου, διερωτήσαντες τὴν οἰκίαν Σίμωνος, ἐπέστησαν ἐπὶ τὸν πυλῶνα: 18. καὶ φωνήσαντες το.
περὶ τοῦ ὁράματος, εἶπεν αὐτῷ τὸ
ἐπυνθάνοντο, εἰ Σίμων ὁ ἐπικαλούμενος Πέτρος ἐνθάδε ξενίζεται.
Tod δὲ Πέτρου ἐνθυμουμένου 2
Γινεῦμα, 180d, ἄνδρες τρεῖς ὃ ζητοῦσί σε’ 20. ἀλλὰ ἀναστὰς κατάβηθι, Δ , ‘ > A ‘ , , λα 2 /
καὶ πορεύου σὺν αὐτοῖς, μηδὲν διακρινόµενος ’ διότι ἐγὼ ἀπέσταλκα
αὐτούς. 21. καταβὰς δὲ Πέτρος πρὸς τοὺς ἄνδρας τούς ἄπεσταλ-
fol > µένους ἀπὸ τοῦ Κορνηλίου πρὸς] αὐτόν, εἶπεν, Ιδού, ἐγώ εἶἰμι ὃν
: After εαυτῳ D, Par., Aug., add εγενετο, ‘‘ when P. came to himself, he doubted Ἱ οµήσς επ τε.
2 ενθυµμουµενου, but ΝΔΑΒΟΡΕΙ,Ρ have διενθ., so ail edd.
Boh., so W.H. text, Weiss, Wendt (probably).
Par., Syr. Harcl. και διαπορουντος before περι.
ὄπρεις SACE 13, 61, many verss. ; Lach. [W.H. marg.], R.V., Hilg.; ὃνο B, W.H. text, Weiss ; om. DHLP, Syr. H., Apost. Const., Cyr.-Jer., Chrys., Aug., Amb. ; so Tisch., Blass, Wendt. Those who favour omission contend that τρεις comes from xi. 11, ὃνο from ver. 7. But Weiss maintains that 8vo is quite correct, as in ver. 7, the soldier is regarded as a guard for the two servants who convey the message : this was overlooked, and δυο was either allowed to drop out, or was changed into rpets, cf. xi. iz. Itis possible that if τρεις was original it fell out after ανδρες (-APECTPEIC).
αυτῳ το Πν. om. B, Par. prefixes ert before διεν., and
ness where God had already bestowed His cleansing mercy in Christ” (Rendall). We cannot limit the words, as has been attempted, to the single case of Cornelius, or refer them only to the removal of the distinction between clean and unclean meats.
Ver. 16. πάλιν: if we read εὐθύς, see critical notes, we have St. Mark’s ‘characteristic word (used by St. Luke only here in Acts, and once in Luke vi. 49), a suggestive fact in a section of the book in which the pen or the language of St. Peter may fairly be traced.
Ver. 17. διηπόρει: “was much per- plexed,” R.V., cf. il. 12, v. 24; see Page’s note, Acts, p. 145.—rt ἂν εἴη: on the optative in indirect questions used by St. Luke only, with or without ἂν, see Simcox, Language of the N. Τ., p. 112; Burton, N. T. Moods and Tenses, pp. 80, 133.-- διερωτήσαντες: only here in N.T., not in LXX, but in classical Greek for asking constantly or continually; pre- position intensifies. Here it may imply that they had asked through the town ‘for the house of Cornelius (Weiss).— πυλῶνα, cf. xii. 13 (and Blass, im loco). R.V. renders not “porch,” as in Matt. xxvi. 71, but “gate,” as if it were θύρα. The πυλών was properly the passage which led from the street through the front part of the house to the inner ‘court. This was closed next the street
by a heavy folding gate with a small wicket kept by a porter (see Alford on Matt., wu. s., and Grimm-Thayer, sub v.).
Ver. 18. φωνήσαντες: “having called out some one of the servants” (Blass, Alford, Kuinoel), but = “called” simply, R.V.; ‘‘vocantes porte curatorem,’”’ Wetstein.
Ver. 19. ἐνθυμουμένου: compound verb best, see critical notes: ‘* pondered on the vision,’? Rendall; διενθ. verb = to weigh in the mind, only here, not found in LXX or elsewhere, except in ecclesiastical writers.—ay8pes τρεῖς, so A. and R.V., see critical notes.
Ver. 20. μηδὲν Stak. : ‘ nothing doubt- ing,” 1.6, without hesitation as to its lawfulness, cf. Matt. xxi. 21, Rom. xiv. 23, Mark xi. 23, James i. 6; the verb is not so used in classical Greek. See Mayor’s note on James i. 6, apparently confined in this sense to N.T. and later Christian writings. For the active voice see xi. 12, xv. 9. If we read a stop after διακ. and διότι or ὅτι immediately following, we may translate, ‘ nothing doubting; for I have sent them,” LY but if no punctuation (so Rendall, Weiss) translate, ‘‘ nothing doubting that I have sent them,” ἐ.ε., the fact that I have sent them. In either case ἐγώ emphatic. Nothing had been spoken to him of his journey, but in the path of unhesitating obedience he was led to the meaning of the revelation (cf. John xiii. 7).