Κύριον ᾿Ιησοῦν. 21. καὶ ἣν χεὶρ Κυρίου pet αὐτῶν: πολύς τε ἀριθμὸς πιστεύσας ἐπέστρεψεν ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον. 22. Ἠκούσθη δὲ ὁ λόγος εἰς τὰ Gta τῆς ἐκκλησίας τῆς ἐν ἹἹεροσολύμοις περὶ αὐτῶν: καὶ ἐξαπέστειλαν Βαρνάβαν διελθεῖν ] ἕως Αντιοχείας. 23. ὃς παρα- γενόμενος καὶ ἰδὼν τὴν χάριν 3 τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐχάρη, καὶ παρεκάλει πάντας τῇ προθέσει τῆς καρδίας προσµένειν τῷ Κυρίῳ' 24. ὅτι ἦν ἀνὴρ ἀγαθὸς καὶ πλήρης Πνεύματος ᾽Αγίου καὶ πίστεως. καὶ προσετέθη ὄχλος ἱκανὸς τῷ Κυρίῳ. 25.° ᾿Εξῆλθε δὲ εἰς Ταρσὸν ὁ Βαρνάβας ἀναζητῆσαι Σαὔῦλον, καὶ εὑρὼν αὐτὸν ἤγαγεν αὐτὸν εἰς ᾽Αντιόχειαν.
1 διελθειν om. ΑΒ 61, Vulg., Syr. Pesh., Boh., Arm., Aeth., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt (against Meyer); but retained by Blass and Hilg., so in D, Syr. Harcl., Chrys.—perhaps added from xi. 19.
2 xapw την τον Θ., so SAB, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt om. την in T.R., so DEHLP, Chrys., Hilg.
3 Blass (cf. Hilg.) reconstructs according to D, Gig., Par., Syr. Harcl. mg.: ακονσας δε οτι Zavdos εστιν εις Ταρσον εξηλθεν αναζητων αυτον και συντυχων παρεκαλεσεν ελθειν εις A. οιτινες παραγενοµενοι ενιαυτον ολον συνηχθησαν Ty εκκ. κ. εδιδαξαν οχλον ικανον (D has ενι. ολ. συνεχυθησαν οχλ. ικ., ΟΠΙ{5 και εδιδ.). It is difficult to see why this should have been shortened if original; perhaps added to definitely show why Barnabas went to Tarsus, and to mark that Saul was not brought to Tarsus
but “ besought {ο come”’. see Weiss, Codex D, pp. 71, 72.
andria, but Ausonius hesitates between Antioch and Alexandria, as to the rank they occupied in eminence and vice. The famous words of Juvenal: ‘in Tiberim defluxit Orontes,” Sat., iii., 62, describe the influences which Antioch, with its worthless rabble of Greeks and para- sites, with its quacks and impostors, its rivalries and debaucheries, exercised upon Rome. Gibbon speaks of the city in the days of Julian as a place where the lively licentiousness of the Greek was blended with the hereditary softness of the Syrian. Yet here was the µητρό- πολις, not merely of Syria, but of the Gentile Christian Churches, and next to Jerusalem no city is more closely associ- ated with the early history and spread of the Christian faith. See “ Antioch” (G. A. Smith) in Hastings’ B.D.; Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chaps. xxiii., xxiv.; Renan, Les Afétres, chaps. xii., ΧΙΙ. ---- ἐλάλουν: ‘used to speak,” so Ramsay.
Ver. 21. χεὶρ Κ., cf. iv. 28, 30, xiii. 11, Luke i. 66; frequent in Ο.Τ. τε closely connects the two clauses, showing that the result of “‘ the hand of the Lord ” was that a great number, etc. (Weiss).
Ver. 22. τῆς ἐκκ. τῆς ἐν ‘I.: in con- trast here to Antioch, in which the exist- ence of an Ecclesia was not yet formally recognised ; but cf. ver. 26, Hort, Ecclesia,
συνεχυθησαν, D (Par."), evident mistake, Blass emends; Hilg. has συνεχυσαν.
ΡΡ. 59-61.— περὶ αὐτῶν: “concerning them” R.V., z.¢., the persons who had believed and turned tothe Lord. Meyer takes it of the preachers, Felten of both preachers and converts.
Ver. 23. τὴν χάριν: if we add τὴν, see critical notes, “‘the grace that was of God” Hort, Ecclesia, p. 60, so Alford.— παρεκάλει: a true son of encourage- ment, exhortation—see on iv. 36, im- perfect because Barnabas remained at Antioch, and the result is indicated in νετ. 24, προσετέθη. This mention of Barnabas and the part played by the primitive Church is referred by Clemen to his Redactor Antijudaicus, p. 109. If we read ἐν τῷ K. with R.V. margin we could render ‘‘to abide by the purpose of their heart in the Lord,” so Hort, u. s., p. 60; Rendall; cf. 2 Tim. iii. το; and Sym- machus, Ps. x. 17 (Weiss). τῷ Κ., {.ε., Christ ; with this verse cf. xv. 32, where St. Luke similarly insists upon the due qualification of divine gifts; Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 45.