to the confined prison-house (so Weiss and Wendt, 1899). Blass decides for the tower of Antonia on account of D.— ἠνοίχθη, see critical ποῖες.---ἐξελθόντες: for remarkable addition in D see critical notes.—ev@éws: used several times in Acts, but εὐθύς only once, see x. 16.— ἀπέστη: when there were no further hindrances to the Apostle’s flight, then the angel departed (Chrys.).
Ver. 11. γενόμενος ἐν ἑαυτῷ, cf. Luke xv. 17, and compare instances of similar phrases in Greek and Latin classical writers in Wetstein and Blass.—Kvptos, see critical notes, if without the article Nosgen (so Weiss) takes it of God, Jehovah. — ἐξαπέστειλε: a compound only found in Luke and Paul; four times in Luke’s Gospel, six or seven times in Acts, and Gal. iv. 4, 6: very frequent in LXX, and used also in active voice by Polybius.—ééetXero ἐκ χ.: close parallels in LXX, cf. Exod. iii. 8, 2 Sam. xxii. 1, Isa. ΧΙΙ. 13, Baruch iv. 18, 21, etc.— ἐκ χειυρὸς: Hebraism, cf. Luke i. 74. The expression is also classical, Blass, Gram., p. 127, for close parallel.—mpoo- δοκία: only in Luke here and in Luke xxi. 26, cf. Gen. xlix. 10, but more allied to its sense here Ps. cxix. 116, Wisdom xvii. 13, Ecclus. xl. 2, and in 2 and 3 Macc. (see H. and R.), and Psalms of Solomon, Tit. xi.; frequently in classics. Ho-
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12. συνιδών τε ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκίαν 1 Μαρίας τῆς μητρὸς Ἰωάννου τοῦ
2 ἐπικαλουμένου Μάρκου, οὗ ἦσαν ἱκανοὶ συνηθροισµένοι καὶ προσευχό-
μενοι.
13. Κρούσαντος δὲ τοῦ Métpou” τὴν θύραν τοῦ πυλῶνος,
προσήλθε ί ὑπακοῦσαι. ὀνόματι Ῥόδη : . καὶ ἐπιγνοῦσα. λθε παιδίσκ ακ . Ρόδη: 1 ὶ ἐπιγ
τὴν φΦωνὴν τοῦ Πέτρου, ἀπὸ τῆς χαρᾶς οὐκ ἤνοιξε τὸν πυλῶνα,
εἰσδραμοῦσα δὲ ἀπήγγειλεν ἑστάναι τὸν Πέτρον πρὸ τοῦ πυλῶνος.
1 Map., but with art. της preceding ΣΑΒ 33, 61, Tisch., W.H., Weiss, Wendt
—Blass omits.
2 Instead of του Π., great preponderance of authorities for avrov SABDLP 61,
maj. of vers., W.H., R.V., etc.
bart claims as a medical word, especi- ally as the verb προσδοκᾷν is also so frequent in Luke; so too Zahn, Ein- leitung in das N. T., p. 436; but see Plummer on Luke xxi. 36. Both verb and noun are also frequent in classical use.
Ver. 12. συνιδών, cf. xiv. 6; so several times in Apocrypha, so in classical writers, and also in Josephus. It may also include a consideration of the future (Bengel and Wetstein), but the aorist refers rather to a single act and not toa permanent state (so Alford).—Mapias : as no mention is made of Mark’s father, she may well have been a widow, pos- sessed of some wealth like Barnabas; see Ρε]ουν.---Ἰωάννου τοῦ ἐπικ., i. 23; iv. 36; x. 5, 18, 32; xi. 13; and below, xiii. 9. As in the case of Paul, his Roman name is used most frequently, cf. xv. 39, 2 Tim. iv. 11, Philem. 24, although in xiii. 5, 13 he is spoken of as John. No reason to doubt the identity of this John Mark with the second Evangelist: the notice of Papias that Mark was the ἑρμηνευτής of Peter, Eusebius, H. E., ili., 39, iS quite in accordance with the notice here of the Apostle’s intimacy with the family of Mark, and with his mention in 1 Pet. v. 13. Blass com- ments on Μάρκον, “quasi digito mon- stratur auctor narrationis,” and similarly Proleg., p. 11; Philology of the Gospels, pp. 192, 193. In Col. iv. 1ο the A.V. calls him “‘sister’s son to Barnabas,” 6 ἀνεψιός, but ave. properly means “first cousin’; so R.V. the cousin of Barnabas
(cf. LXX, Num. xxxvi. 11, Tob. vii. 2),
Lightfoot on Col. iv. 10; see on xv. 39.— προσευχόµενοι, cf. James v. 16; “media nocte,” Bengel; they betook them to prayer, “to that alliance which is indeed invincible,” Chrys., Hom., 26. On ἦσαν with participle as characteristic of St. Luke, see i. 16. As in the former miraculous deliverance, v. 16, all at-