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19. ΟΙ μὲν οὖν διασπαρέντες ἀπὸ τῆς θλίψεως τῆς γενομένης ἐπὶ Στεφάνω.} διῆλθον ἕως Φοινίκης καὶ Κύπρου καὶ ᾽Αντιοχείας, μηδενὶ
λαλοῦντες τὸν λόγον εἰ μὴ µόνον Ιουδαίοι. 20. ἦσαν δέ τινες
lol A ~ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες Κύπριοι καὶ Κυρηναῖοι, οἵτινες εἰσελθόντες eis
᾽Αντιόχειαν ἐλάλουν πρὸς τοὺς Ἑλληνιστάς,” εὐαγγελιζόμενοι τὸν
1 ew. Στεφανῳ NBHLP 61, Bas., Chrys, Theophl., best supported; επι Στεφανου perhaps a gloss since επι was taken temporally ; απο του Στεφανου D, so Hilg. (but not Blass in B). Κυπρον, Par. reads Τνρου; Blass rejects.
2 EAAnvioras BD?EHLP 61, W.H., R.V. marg., so Sanday (cf. Shirley, Apostolic Age, pp. 27, 28; Wordsworth, and Hastings’ B.D., art. “Christian,” p. 384); EAAnvas. Μ92Α. (discounted by reading EAAnvas wrongly in ix. 27), D!, Arm., Eus., Chrys., Tisch., Weiss, Blass, R.V. text. 1 ευαγγελιστας claimed as supporting EAAnv- ιστας, but see Sanday, η. infra. Lightfoot and a large number of recent writers (Page, Ramsay, Zéckler, Holtzmann, Felten, Rendall, G. A. Smith, McGiffert) accept EAAnvas (although, in some cases, admitting that MS. authority is adverse), because demanded as antithetical to the preceding ἰουδαιο.. It is urged that Ελληνιστ. are included under Ἰονδ., but whilst in one sense this is so, it is also possible to draw a distinction between the two, lov’. may be used as = Εβραιοι in vi. I, or as in xiv. I, xviii. 4 where evidently Jews and proselytes (not heathen) are distinguished, so that whilst as far as Antioch Fews only had been addressed, now the Cyprians and Cyrenians addressed Hellenists, God-fearers (like Cornelius), ‘“Greeks who came into relations with the Jews,” whilst not addressing as yet those who were entirely heathen. In view of the great importance and future position of the Church of Antioch, it is not unlikely that Luke should carefully note the elements of which it was originally composed. The real turning-point in the sphere of Peter and Paul is not yet, but in xiii. 46. See W.H., Select Readings, p. 94; Hort, fudaistic Christianity, pp. 59, 60; Ecclesia, p. 61; Sanday, Expositor,
pp. 60-62, and Ramsay, p. 47 (1896).
uncircumcision ; sometimes referred to ἡμῖν, 5ο Bengel, Nosgen, Wendt, some- times to αὐτοῖς, so Weiss, Blass.—tis ἥμην δ., cf. Exod. iii. 11, 2 Kings viii. 13, Blass, Gram., p. 173 ; in reality two ques- tions: Who was I? Was I able to with- stand God? Winer-Moulton, Ixvi., 5.— éyo,emphatic,‘ merum organon,” Bengel.
Ver. 18. ἠσύχασαν, cf. xxi. 14 and Luke xiv. 3, so in LXX, Neh. v. 8 (Job xxxii. 6, Hebrew different); also in a different sense in Luke xxiii. 56, 1 Thess. iv. 11, only in Luke and Paul in N.T.— ἐδόξαζον, see critical notes, imperfect of continuous action—the writer about to pass to other things thus depicts the state of things which he leaves, cf. viii. 3 (Blass).—Apaye, see critical notes.
Vv. 19-26. Further spread of the Gos- ael to Antioch.
Ver. το. οἱ μὲν οὖν, cf. viii. 4. μὲν οὖν introduces a general statement, whilst δέ (νετ. 20) marks a particular instance. ---ἐπὶ Σ.: “about Stephen” A. and R. V. (best) ; somerender “‘against Stephen,” and others ‘“‘post Stephanum”’’. See also critical note.
Ver. 20. ἄνδρες Κύπ. καὶ Κνρ., cf. iv. 36, xxi. 16; ii. το, νΙ. Ο.-- Ἑλληνιστάς,
see critical notes.—evayyeALopevor τὸν Κ. Ἰ.: on construction with accusative of the message, Simcox, Language of the N. T., p. 79. We can scarcely take the phrase given here, instead of ‘‘ preaching that Jesus was the Christ,” as a proof that the word was preached not to Jews but to Gentiles.—Avtidxerav: on the Orontes, distinguished as °A. ἡ πρός, or ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ, and bearing the title µητρό- πολις. There appear to have been at least five places in Syria so called under the Seleucids. For the Arabs Damascus was the capital, but the Greeks wanted to be nearer the Mediterranean and Asia Minor. The city built in 500 B.c. by Seleucus Nicator I. became more and more beautiful, whilst all the trade of the Mediterranean was connected with it through its harbour Seleucia. Ali the varied elements of the life of the ancient world found a home there. From the first there were Jews amongst its in- habitants. But in such a mixed popula- tion, whilst art and literature could gaim the praise of Cicero, vice as well as- luxury made the city infamous as well as- famous. Josephus calls it the third city of the empire, next to Rome and Alex-