Ver. το. πλήρης: for an interesting pa- rallel in Plato cf. Wetstein, in loco, Plato, Legg., 908 Ὁ.--ῥᾳδιουργίας: only here in N.T., cf. xviii. 14, hellenistic, R.V. “villainy,” A.V. “mischief’’ (soGenevan),
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, - - ὁδοὺς Κυρίου 1 τὰς εὐθείας; 11. καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ χεὶρ τοῦ Κυρίου ἐπὶ σέ,.
καὶ ἔση τυφλὸς μὴ βλέπων τὸν ἥλιον ἄχρι καιροῦ.
παραχρῆμα.
6 > δὲ éwéwecev” ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸν ἀχλὺς καὶ σκότος, καὶ περιάγων ἐζήτει
Χειραγωγούς.
12. τότε ἰδὼν 6 ἀνθύπατος τὸ γεγονὸς ἐπίστευσεν,
3
ἐκπλησσόμενος ἐπὶ τῇ διδαχῇ τοῦ Κυρίου.
1 Κυριον, but ΔΝ Β του Κ., so W.H. text, cf. Hos, xiv. 9 (1ο) (but see var, lec.), so
Weiss, Wendt.
2 ewereoev, but επεσεν SABD 61, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Wendt, Hilg.; see, on the other hand, Weiss, Apostelgeschichte, Introd., pp. 19, 20.
3 ewuotevoev—DE prefix εθανµασεν και; after επισ. D adds tw Θεῳ, so Blass and.
Hilg.
but other E.V. ‘‘deceit’’; the idea of de- ceit, however, is more properly contained in δόλου R.V., “guile”. ῥᾳδ., lit., ease in doing, so easiness, laziness, and hence fraud, wickedness, cf. πανονργία, fre- quently used, although not necessarily so, in a bad sense.—vié διαβόλου, John viii. 44, the expression may be used in marked and indignant contrast tothe name “Son of Jesus,” cf. ill. 25, iv. 36. But without any reference to ver. 6 the ex- pression would describe him as the natural enemy of the messengers of God. On the phrase and its use here see Deiss- mann, Bibelstudien, p. 163. Note the thrice παντὸς — πάσης ---πάσης, “ter repetitur emphatice”” Wetstein. ---δια- στρέφων, cf. LXX, Prov. x. g, and Isa. lix. 8, Micah iii. Ο.---τὰς ὁδοὺς . . . τὰς εὐθείας: similar expressions frequent in LXX, so of the ways of the Lord in contrast to the ways of men, Ezek. xxxiii. 17, Ecclesiast. xxxix. 24, Song of the Three Children, ver. 3.
Ver. 11. καὶ viv ἰδοὺ, cf. Hort, Ec- clesia, Ῥ. 179.—ph βλέπων τὸν ἥλιον: emphasising the punishment, as it would imply that he should be stone-blind (Weiss). —@xpt καιροῦ: “until a season,” R.V. margin, “until the time” (Ren- dall), 1.ε., the duly appointed time when it should please God to restore his sight, cf. Luke iv. 13, xxi. 24 (Acts xxiv. 25). The exact expression is only found here and in Luke iv. 13. Wendt (1899) asks if the ceasing of the punishment is con- ceived of as ceasing with the opposition in ver. 8. See his earlier edition, 1888, and the comment of Chrys., so Oecu- menius: οὐκ dpa τιμωρία ἦν GAN tacts: SO too Theophylact.—rapayp7pa, see above on p. 106. — ἐπέπεσεν, see critical notes. If we retain T.R. with Weiss, the word may be called characteristic of St. Luke, see above on 216 its use as denoting an attack of disease
is quite medical, Hobart, p. 44.—ayAvds: only here in N.T., not in LXX. Galen. in describing diseases of the eye mentions ἀχλύς amongstthem. So Dioscorides uses. the word of a cataract, and Hippocrates also employs it, Hobart, p. 44. The word is no doubt frequent in Homer, sometimes of one deprived of sight by divine powe:, and it also occurs in Polyb. and Josephus. But here it is used in conjunction with other words which may also be classed as medical, παραχ., σκότος, to say nothing of (ἐπ)έπεσεν.- σκότος: marks. the final stage of blindness—the word is- no doubt a common one, but it is used, as also some of its derivatives, by medical writers in a technical sense, and Dios- corides in one place connects σκοτώµατα and ἀχλύς together.—tepidywv: only absolutely here in N.T., so sometimes in classical Greek, and sometimes with acc. loci, as also in N.T. (cf. Maitt. iv. 23, ix. 35, εἴο.).---ἐζήτει, imperf., he sought but did not find.—ye.paywyovs : only here in N.T., not in LXX, cf. the verb in ix. 8, xxii. 11, and in LXX, Judg. xvi. 26: A, Tobit xi. 16 (but not A, B); used by Plutarch, etc.