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ἡ δὲ διϊσχυρίζετο οὕτως ἔχειν.
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ἐξήγαγεν ἐκ τῆς φυλακῆς.
εἶπε δέ, ᾽Απαγγείλατε Ιακώβω καὶ τοῖς
1 Before ο αγγ. D (Pesh.) prefix τυχον, so Blass, Hilg. (as if only a possible
solution, see Weiss, p. 72). classical Greek adv.)
(τυχον only occurs in N.T, in 1 Cor. xvi. 6, but in
2D omits Π. with Par., but all edit. retain except Blass in B and Hilg.
3 D reads εξανοιξαντες δε και ιδοντες αυτον εξεστ., a graphic touch perhaps orig.,
but if so, hardly corrected for brevity.
4 For σιγαν D (Vulg., Gig., Par.) wa σιγησωσιν, and D, Syr. H. mg., Par. εισηλθεν xat—may be explanatory by reviser; Belser defends as orig., p. 65.
p. 4ο.--ὑπακοῦσαι, R.V., ‘to answer,” cf. above, Xen., Symp.,i., 11 (so in Plato, Phedo, 59 ¢, etc.).—‘P68y: a rose, cf. Dorcas and other names of the same class. The name occurs in myths and plays, see Blass’s note.
Ver. 14. τῆς χαρᾶς: with article, the joy which she felt at the voice of Peter, cf. Luke xxiv. 41 for the same emphatic expression.—eiod.; see above on νετ. 1Ο, only here in N.T., cf. 2 Macc. v. 26.
Ver. 15. Μαίνῃ: used as in a colloquial expression, not meaning literal insanity, see Page’s note on xxvi. 24, 50 in 2 Kings ix. II, ἐπίληπτος seems to be used.— διϊσχυρίζετο: only here and in Luke xxii. 59 (cf. xv. 2 B). In Luke, A.V. renders ‘confidently affirmed” as it should be here, and as it is in R.V.; found in classical Greek, and so also in Jos., Ant., ii., 6, 4, but not in LXX;; cf. also its use in Acta Petri et Pauli Apocryph., 34, 39 (Lumby). Both ἰσχνρίζεσθαι and its compound here are used in medical lan- guage, and both in the same way as in this passage. If we compare the parallel passages, Matt. xxvi. 73, Mark xiv. 70, Luke xxii. 59, in Matthew we have εἶπον, in Mark ἔλεγον, but in Luke the strong word in the passage before us ; Hobart, Ῥ. 77, and see also a similar change in parallel passages on p. 76.—O ἄγγελος αὐτοῦ ἐστιν, cf. Matt. xviii. το, Heb. i. 14. According to Jewish ideas they would believe that Peter’s guardian angel had assumed his form and voice, and stood before the door, see Edersheim, Fesus the Messiah, ii., 748-755, especially 752 ; **Abocrypha”’ (‘“* Speaker’s Commentary’’) “ Angelology,” i., 171 ff.; Weber, Fi- dische Theol., pp. 170, 171 (1897); “ Angels,” B.D., τῇ, Blass, Nosgen, J.
Lightfoot, in loco. We may contrast the reserve of the canonical books of the Jews with the details of their later theology, “ Engel,’ Hamburger, Real- Encyclopddie des Fudentums, i., 2 and 3.
Ver. 16. ἐπέμενε, cf. John viii. 7, with a participle as here ; only found elsewhere in N.T. in Luke and Paul; see on x. 4δ.--ἀνοίξ., another natural touch; those assembled went to the door themselves.
Ver. 17. xatageloas... σιγᾶν : only in Acts xiii. 16, xix. 33, xxi. 40, prop. to shake down (as fruit from trees), thus to shake up and down (the hand), to beckon with the hand for silence, used with accusative, and later with dat. instrument. yeupl: so in classical Greek and Josephus, cf. Ovid, Met., i., 206; fEneid, xii., 692, and instances in Wet- stein; not in LXX as parallel to this; on the phrase, and also on σιγᾶν, as characteristic of Luke, see further Friedrich, pp. 26, 7ο.-- διηγήσατο, ix. 27, only in Luke and Mark (except Heb. xi. 32). — ᾽᾿Απαγγείλατε: “ tell,” R.V., characteristic of Luke, eleven times in his Gospel, thirteen or four- teen in Acts.—laxéBw: “(πε Lord’s brother,” Gal. 1. 19, ii. 9, 1 Cor. xv. 7 (from Mark vi. 3 it has been inferred that he was the eldest of those so called). This James may have become more prominent still since the murder of James the son of Zebedee. On his position in the Church at Jerusalem see below on xv. 13, and also on xi. 30. For arguments in favour of the identification of this James with James the son of Alphzus, see B.D., 13, Ρ. 1512; Felten, Apostelgeschichte, p. 239; and, on the other hand, Mayor, Introd. to Epistle of