Ver. 5. ὁ μὲν οὖν .. . προσευχὴ δὲ: both A. and R.V. regard προσ. δὲ in the same verse as the antithesis, but see Page’s note, where the antithesis is found in ver. 6, ὅτε δέ. If we retain the former interpretation, ver. 5 may be regarded as a kind of parenthesis, the ὅτε δέ in ver. 6 forming a kind of antithesis to ver. 4.— ἐκτενής, see critical notes; if we read ἐκτενῶς = “earnestly,” Κ.Υ. (Latin, in- tente), adverb is Hellenistic, used (by St. Luke xxii. 44, and) once elsewhere in 1 Peter i, 22 (cf. the adjective in 1 Peter iv. 8), so of prayer in Clem. Rom., Cor., xxxiv.,7. In LXX cf. the use of the word in Joel 1. 14 (but see H. and R.), Jonah iii. 8, Judith iv. 12 (see H. and R.), 3 Macc.’ v. 9. The adjective is also found in 3 Mace. iii. 10 and v. 29. Their praying shows “non fuisse animis fractos,” Calvin. The word passed into the services of the Church, and was often repeated by the deacon: δεηθῶμεν ἐκ. or ἐκτενέστερον.
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6, “Ore δὲ ἔμελλεν αὐτὸν προάγειν 1 ὅ Ἡρώδης, τῇ νυκτὶ ἐκείνῃ ἦν
ὁ Γιέτρος κοιµώμενος μεταξδὺ δύο στρατιωτῶν, δεδεµένος ἁλύσεσι
sual, Φύλακές τε πρὸ τῆς θύρας ἐτήρουν τὴν φυλακήν.
7. καὶ ἰδού,
= 9 Δ a - ἄγγελος Κυρίου ἐπέστη,” καὶ as ἔλαμψεν ἐν τῷ οἰκήματι' πατάξας δὲ τὴν πλευρὰν τοῦ Πέτρου, ἤγειρεν αὐτὸν λέγων, ᾿Ανάστα ἐν τάχει.
NS 367 3 > A ¢ ἁλύ > A - και ἐξέπεσον αὕτου αἱ ἄλυσεις EK των χειρωγ.
πρὸς αὐτόν, Περίζωσαι, καὶ ὑπόδησαι τὰ σανδάλιά σου.
J ουτω.
8. εἶπέ τε 6 ἄγγελος 3 ΄ 3 ἐποίησε δὲ
καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ, Περιβαλοῦ τὸ ἵμάτιόν σου, καὶ ἀκολούθει
1 προαγειν DEHLP, Chrys., so Meyer, Blass, and Hilg.; προαγαγειν A 8, 15, 61, so Tisch., W.H., marg., Weiss; προσαγειν $3 5, 29; προσαγαγειν B 13, 57, so W.H.
text, Wendt.
Compounds in προ and προς often interchanged (see Weiss, p. 20).
2 Western text, B, adds τῳ Πετρῳ after επεστη, for ελαμψεν reads επελαμψεν, adds απ᾿ αυτου (the angel), and instead of τῳ οικ. reads τῳ τοπῳ εκεινῳ. παταξ., instead D, Gig. read νυξας, so Hilg., cf. John xix. 34.
3 εξεπεσον, but -εσαν SWABDE 61, Tisch., W.H., Blass, Hilg., Weiss, W.H.,
ΑΡΡ., Ρ. 171, and Kennedy, p. 169.
Ver. 6. τῇ νυκτὶ ἐκείνῃ: “that very night,”’ t.¢., the night before the trial.— κοιµώμενος, cf. 1 Peter ν. 7 and Ps. cxxvii. 2: ‘‘ for so He giveth His beloved sleep”: “and there too it is beautiful that Paul sings hymns, whilst here Peter sleeps,’ Chrys., Hom., xxvi: cf. xvi. 25. τὸ Wav ῥίψας ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον, Oecumenius (cf. Blass, in 1οεο).---ἀλύσεσι Svat, cf. xxi. ‘ 33; on the usual Roman custom see Jos., Ant., xviii., 6, 7, in the account of Herod’s own imprisonment by Tiberius; ¢f. Pliny, Epist., x., 65 ; Seneca, Epist.,i., 5, ““eadem catena et custodiam (vinctum) et militem copulabat,” perhaps most natural to sup- pose that Peter was bound on either hand to each of the soldiers, the two chains being used perhaps for greater security on account of the former escape. ---φύλακες, {.6., the other two of the quaternion to make escape impossible.
Ver. 7.. ἐπέστη: often as here with the notion of coming suddenly, in classi- cal Greek it is often used of dreams, as in Homer; or of the coming of heavenly visitors, very frequent in Luke, and with the same force as here, Friedrich, pp. 7 and 87, and almost always in second aorist, see also Plummer on Luke 11. 9.— οἰκήματι: only here in N.T., used in Wisdom xiii. 15 (and perhaps in Tobit ii. 4), but not in same sense. Dem. and Thuc. use it for a prison: Κ.Υ. “the cell,”’ lit., the οαπαδετ.-- πατάξας δὲ τὴν πλευρὰν: to rouse him, an indication of the sound and quiet sleep which the prisoner slept in spite of the fateful morrow (so Weiss); cf. vii. 24, and ver.