Χ. 45---4δ.
45. καὶ ἐξέστησαν ot ἐκ περιτομῆς.
πιστοὶ Scot! συνῆλθον τῷ Πέτρῳ, ὅτι καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη ἡ δωρεὰ τοῦ
"Ἁγίου Πνεύματος ἐκκέχυται" 46. ἤκουον γὰρ αὐτῶν λαλούντων
γλώσσαις;” καὶ µεγαλυνόντων τὸν Θεόν.
47. τότε ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Πέτρος,
Μήτι τὸ ὕδωρ κωλῦσαι δύναταί τις τοῦ μὴ βαπτισθῆναι τούτους,
οἵτινες τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ Άγιον ἔλαβον καθὼς 3 καὶ ἡμεῖς ; 48. προσέταξε
τε αὐτοὺς * βαπτισθῆναι ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ Κυρίου.» αὐτὸν ἐπιμεῖναι ἡμέρας τινάς.
τότε ἠρώτησαν
logo. retained by Tisch., W.H. πιατρ., Blass, Hilg., and even Weiss with NADEHLP; but Lach., W.H. text, Wendt follow B, d, Vulg.
2 yAwooats, D? prefixes καιναις, d prevaricatis (= ποικιλαις, so Hilg.), Sah.,
aliis, see below.
3 καθως EHLP; ws SAB, Iren., Chrys., Epiph., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass,.
Weiss. Hilg. has wowep with D.
*avrovs BDEHLP, Cyr.-Jer., Chrys., so W.H., Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilg. ;
αντοις, Tisch. following ΧΑ 33.
ὅτον K. SABE verss. have instead Ίησον Χριστον, so all edd., so also Blass in B ; but D has του κ. i. Χ., so Hilg.; Meyer retains Τ.Ε.
Zoéckler).—éwéweoe, cf. x. 44, Xi. 15, and for the frequency of the word in Acts and its use in Luke’s Gospel, see Friedrich, p. 41. By this wonderful proof St. Peter and his Jewish brethren with him saw that, uncircumcised though they were, Cornelius and his household were no longer ‘‘common or unclean”: ‘The Holy Ghost,”’ said the Jews, ‘never fel! upon a Gentile’. Bengel comments, ‘‘Alias baptismus susceptus est ante adventum Spiritus Sancti . . . Liberum gratia habet ordinem ᾽'.--ἀκούοντας, as in ver. 33.
Ver. 45. οἱ ἐκ π., see ver. 23, cf. Rom. iv. 12, and for the phrase as describing St. Paul’s most bitter and narrow op- ponents, see Gal. ii. 12, Col. iv. 11, Tit. i. ro. The fact was thus fully testified, even by those who were not in sympathy with it.—«at ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη ‘‘nam uno admisso jam nulli clausa est janua” Bengel. Cf. ii. 38, a gift which they thought did not appertain to the Gentiles ; see on ver. 44, and Schottgen, Hoy. Heb., in loco.
Ver. 46. λαλούντων γλώσσαις, see on ii. 13; here no speaking in differ- ent languages is meant, but none the less the gift which manifested itself in jubilant ecstatic praise was a gift of the Spirit, and the event may well be called ‘‘the Gentile Pentecost’’; see on xi. 15 and Plumptre, zx loco ; Wendt, edition 1899. The words of ver. -47 need not mean that this gift of tongues
was manifested precisely as the Pente- costal gift.
Ver. 47. µήτι τὸ ὕ. . . . τοῦ μὴ βαπ- τισθῆναι, cf. xiv. 18: on construction, Burton, p. 159; so also in LXX and classical Greek, Blass, Gram., p. 230; Viteau, Le Grec du N. T., p. 172 (1893). —oitives, quippe qui, so Blass in this passage.—r6 ὕδωρ: ‘‘the water” R.V., not simply “water” as A.V., as Bengel admirably says, ‘‘ Non dicit: jam habent Spiritum, ergo aqua carere possunt’’. In baptism both the water and the Spirit were required, xi. 16. The greater had been bestowed; could the lesser be withheld? See the striking passage in Moberly, Ministerial Priesthood, p. 108, on the fact that Cornelius and his com- panions, even after they had first received the presence of the Holy Ghost, were nevertheless ordered to be baptised.
Ver. 48. προσέταξε, cf. St. Paul’s tule, 1 Cor. i. 17. If Philip the Evan-, gelist was at Czsarea at the time, the baptism may have been intrusted to him. --ἐπιμεῖναι: diutius commorari, Blass, so manere amplius, Bengel, cf. xxi. 4, 1Ο, xXViii. 12, 14, and xv. 34 B (Blass); only in Luke and Paul, frequent in Acts, not found in Luke’s Gospel, cf. John viii. 7; only once in LXX, Exod. xii. 39, in classics as in text.—tpépas τινάς, no doubt spent in further instruction in the faith: aurez dies, Bengel.