22—20.
a # , , ε a τοὺς συγγενεῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς ἀναγκαίους φίλους. 25.1 Ὡς δὲ ἐγένετο εἰσελθεῖν τὸν Πέτρον, συναντήσας αὐτῷ ὁ Κορνήλιος, πεσὼν ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας προσεκύνησεν. 26. ὁ δὲ Πέτρος αὐτὸν ἤγειρε λέγων,
᾿Ανάστηθι”. κἀγὼ αὐτὸς ἄνθρωπός εἶἰμι. 27. καὶ ,συνομιλῶν αὐτῷ,
εἰσῆλθε, καὶ εὑρίσκει συνεληλυθότας πολλούς, ἔφη τε πρὸς αὐτούς, 25. Ὑμεῖς ὃ ἐπίστασθε ὡς ἀθέμιτόν ἐστιν ἀνδρὶ ᾿Ιουδαίῳ κολλᾶσθαι ἢ προσέρχεσθαι ἀλλοφύλῳ: καὶ ἐμοὶ ὁ Θεὸς ἔδειξε µηδένα κοινὸν ἢ ἀκάθαρτον λέγειν ἄνθρωπον ' 29. διὸ καὶ ἀναντιῤῥήτως * ἦλθον µετα-
1 For the whole verse D, Syr. Harcl., Gig. read προσεγγιζοντος δε του Π. (εις την Κ.) προδραµων εις των δουλων διεσαφησεν παραγεγονεναι αυτον. D, Syr. Harcl. read also ο δε Κ. εκπηδησας και συναντησας αυτῳ. Hilg. reads as above and Belser strongly supports B text, p. 60; so Harris, Four Lectures, etc., p. 63, who calls these details ‘‘ as lifelike as anything we could wish,” but see also Corssen, G. G. 4., p- 437, Weiss, Codex D, p. 68, and Wendt, zn loco, edit. 1899, where he refers the
expansion in Western text to a misunderstanding of εισελθειν in a text.
After eyev.
SABCELP, Tisch, Weiss., W.H. read του.
2D, Syr. Harcl., Par., Wern. read τι ποιεις; (cf. Acts xiv. 15); whilst D omits αναστηθι, the others read it after moves. Par.?, Wern. add τον Θεον προσκννει, cf. Apoc. xix. 10, xxii. 9g, so after ειµι DE, Gig., Par., Wern. add ws και ov.
3 After υμεις D, Aug. insert βελτιον, so Hilg. (cf compar. in iv. 16, β). * αναντιρρητως, so Tisch., Blass, Weiss ; but αναντιρητως BD, 61, W.H., Hilg.
one of worship towards one regarded after the vision as a divine being; but on the other hand the language of the vision by no means involved such a be- lief on the part of Cornelius (see ver. 5), and as a worshipper of the one true God he would not be likely to pay such divine worship.
Ver. 26. The conduct of Christ may be contrasted with that of His Apostles, so Blass: ‘illi (Petro) autem is honor recusandus erat, cf. Apoc., 19, 10; 22, 8; quem nunquam recusavit Jesus, Luc., 4, 8; 8, 41” (see Hackett’s note and Knaben- bauer in /oco).
Ver. 27. καὶ συνομιλῶν αὐτῷ: “and as he talked with him,” R.V.; only here in N.T., not in LXX (but συνόµιλος, Symm. Job xix. 19), cf. xx. 11 for similar use of the simple verb ὁμιλέω, which is also used in a similar sense in LXX and in Josephus (so too in Xen.), and also in modern Greek (Kennedy).— εἰσῆλθε, {.ᾳ., into the room, in dis- tinction to ver. 25 of entrance into the house, or it may signify the completion of his entering in (so De Wette, Weiss).
Ver. 28. ἀθέμιτον: only once again in N.T., and significantly in 1 Pet. iv. 3, but cf. for a similar sense to its use here 2 Macc. vi. 5, vii.1. Onthe extent to which this feeling was carried see Edersheim, Fewish Social Life, pp. 26-28; Taylor’s Sayings of the $ewish Fathers, pp. 15, 26, 137 (second edition); Weber, Fidische