Ver. 22. δῆμος: only in Acts, xvii. 5, xix. 30, 33, but in the same signification in classical Greek.—émwedover: later Greek in this sense (cf. the flatterers in the description of Josephus, 1. s., ἀνεβόων, that Herod was θεός, and so in the words εὐμενὴς εἴης). In N.T. only in Luke, ef. Luke xxiii. 21, Acts xxi. 34, xxii. 245 of. 2 Macc. i. 23, 3 Macc. vii. 13, 1 Esd. ix. 47. The imperfect quite corresponds to the description of Josephus: ἄλλος ἄλλοθεν φωνῆς aveB. 0. φωνή; for in- stances of similar flattery see Wetstein, and cf. Josephus, wu. 5.
Ver. 23. παραχρῆμα, see above, p. 106. ---ἐπάταξεν, cf. Exod. xi. 23, 2 Sam. xxiv. 17, 2 Kings xix. 35, 1 Chron. xxi. 15, Isa. xxxvii. 36, 1 Macc. vii. 41. See p. 188. On the confusion in the reading of Euse- bius, Η. Ε., ii., το, where for the ow! whom Josephus describes as appearing to Herod as ἄγγελος κακῶν we have the reading “the angel” of the Acts, the unseen minister of the divine will, see B.D. 1%, Ρ. 1345, and Exsebius, Schaft and Wace’s
24. Ὁ δὲ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ ηὔξανε καὶ ἐπληθύνετο. 25. Βαρνάβας
δὲ καὶ Laddos! ὁπέστρεψαν ἐξ Ἱερουσαλήμ, πληρώσαντες τὴν διακονίαν͵, συμπαραλαβόντες καὶ ᾿Ιωάννην τὸν ἐπικληθέντα Μάρκον.
1 After Σαυλος Syr. H. mg., Par. add 6 επικαλουµενος Παυλος. Par. also reads Παυλος in xiii. 1,2. This seems a mere anticipation of xiii. 9. Blass in B follows Par. (p. ix.), and regards Παυλος as original. So Belser, pp. 65, 66, warmly defends, as showing that there is no need to see in xiii. ϱ a sudden introd. of the name Paul, but that Luke, at least in the first draft of his work, had already spoken of him here as bearing a double name, like John Mark. υπεστρεψαν εξ |. A 13, 27, Syr. P. and H., Sah., Boh., Arm., Aeth., Chrys., so Tisch., Weiss, W.H. marg., R.V.; but ΜΒΗΤ.Ρ 61, Syr. H. mg., Aethro.; W.H., Wendt, R.V. marg. read εις |., and DE 15, 180, Vulg., Chrys. read απο, so Blass in B, and so Hilg. Tisch. maintains that scribe began to write απο but turned it into es. The latter prep. would not be under- stood if taken with νπεστρεψαν, as it would have no meaning, and so εξ and απο substituted. E, Syr. Pesh., Sah., and so Par. and Blass in B, added εις Αντιοχειαν (but see Weiss, Introd. to Apostelgeschichte, p. 37). But the reading εις |. can be fairly explained if the words are connected with πληρ. την διακ., so Wendt and W.H. (App., p. 94), and Zéckler, Apostelgeschichte, p. 232. Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 64, holds that εις was a deliberate alteration of an editor who thus brought the text
into conformity with xxii. 17 because the two passages referred to the same visit.
edition, in loco; see also Bengel’s im- pressive note on this verse on the differ- ence between human history and divine. —av0 ὧν = ἀντὶ τούτων ὅτι, cf. Luke i. 20, xix. 44, see also xii. 3; only once outside St. Luke’s writings in N.T., 2 Thess. ii. το; see Simcox, Language of Ν. T., p. 137; Plummer on Luke i. 20 and xii. 3; quite classical and several times in LXX.—€Soxe τὴν δ.: debitum honorem, cf. Isa. xlviii. 11, Rev. xix. 73 article elsewhere omitted (cf. Luke xvii. 18); a Hebrew phrase. How different the behaviour of St. Peter and of St. Paul, x. 26, xiv. 14. Josephus expressly says that the king did not rebuke the flat- terers or reject their flattery—xat yevop. ox.: see below. St. Luke does not say that Herod died on the spot, but simply marks the commencement of the disease, παραχρῆμα; Josephus de- scribes the death as occurring after five days. Wendt (1899 edition) admits that the kind of death described may well have been gradual, although in 1888 edition he held that the ἐξέψυξεν meant that he expired immediately; see also Zoéckler and Hackett, as against Weiss. ἐξέψ., see on v. 5, 10.—oKoh. : only here in N.T.; no contradiction with Josephus, but a more precise description of the fatal disease, ¢f. 2 Macc. ix. 5, 9, with which detailed and strange account the simple statement of the fact here stands in marked contrast. The word can- not be taken metaphorically, cf. Herod., iv., 205: and Jos., Ant., xvii., 6, 5, of the death of Herod the Great. Such a death was regardedasa punishment for pride; so in 2 Macc. and Herod., Farrar, St. Paul,