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καὶ πεντήκοντα, ἔδωκε κριτὰς ἕως Σαμουὴλ τοῦ προφήτου: 21. κἀκεῖθεν ἠτήσαντο βασιλέα, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Θεὸς τὸν Σαοὺλ υἱὸν Kis, ἄνδρα ἐκ φυλῆς Βενιαμίν, ἔτη τεσσαράκοντα" 22. καὶ µεταστήσας αὐτόν, ἤγειρεν αὐτοῖς τὸν Δαβὶδ εἰς βασιλέα, ᾧ καὶ εἶπε µαρτυρήσας, ““Εὗρον Δαβὶδ τὸν τοῦ ᾿εσσαί, ἄνδρα κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν
22 µου, ὃς ποιήσει πάντα τὰ θελήµατά µου.
23. Τούτου ὁ Θεὸς ἀπὸ
ο a) sy λί Γιά 1 32 ἡλ a 3 A τοῦ σπέρματος κατ ἐπαγγελίαν Ίγειρε TH Ισραὴλ σωτῆρα ᾿Ιησοῦν, 24. προκηρύξαντος Ιωάννου πρὸ προσώπου τῆς εἰσόδου αὐτοῦ βάπ-
” 3 τισµα µετανοίας παντὶ τῷ Aad Ισραήλ.
25. ὡς δὲ ἐπλήρου ὁ
Ἰωάννης τὸν δρόµον, ἔλεγε, “ Τίνα µε” ὑπονοεῖτε εἶναι; οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐγὼ, GN ἴδού, ἔρχεται μετ Eu, οὗ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἄξιος τὸ ὑπόδημα τῶν ποδῶν
* ηγειρε, cf. ver. 22; but nyaye NABEHLP 61, Vulg., Boh., Aeth., Ath., Chrys.,
Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt.
2 twa µε, but τι ewe SAB 61, Sah., Aeth., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt; Blass follows T.R. with CDEHLP, Vulg., Boh., Syrr. P. and H., so Hilg., but in
Blass punctuation differs from T.R.
have merely to suppose that the Apostle followed the popular chronology adopted by Josephus, Ant., viii., 3, 1; x., 8, 5, especially when we remember that speak- ing in round numbers (#s) that chronology tallies very fairly with that of the Book of Judges. See Meyer-Wendt, Alford, and cf. also the almost similar reckoning in Wetstein, and Bethge, Die Paulin- ischen Reden, pp. 30, 31. Another ex- planation is given by Rendall, in loco, where ἔτεσι is taken as marking not duration of time (which would require the accusative), but the limit of time within which, etc.
Ver. 21. κἀκεῖθεν: only here of time in N.T. as in later Greek. Weiss even here interprets the expression to mean that they asked for a king from him, i.e., Samuel, in his character as prophet.—éry τεσσαράκοντα: not mentioned in O.T., but cf. Jos., Ant., vi., 14,9. The period does not seem much too long for Saul’s reign when we remember that Ishbosheth was forty years old at his father’s death, when he was placed on the throne by Abner, 2 Sam. ii. 10.—ZaovA κ.τ.λ., cf. Paul’s description of himself in Phil. 11, 5.
Ver. 22. µεταστήσας, Luke xvi. 4: refers here to Saul’s deposition from the throne, 1 Sam. xv. 16, cf. Dan. ii. 21, 1 Macc. viii. 13, not as Bethge thinks to his removal from the presence of God, cf. 2 Kings xvii. 23, nor to his death, 3 Macc. ili. 1, vi. 12. Saul therefore could not have been the bringer of the promised salvation.—evpov κ.τ.λ.: a combination
of two passages, Ps. Ixxxix. 20 and τ Sam. xiii. 14, and freely referred to as a saying pronounced by God Himself, but the latter part was pronounced by Samuel in God’s name.—téy τοῦ *leooal, but in LXX τὸν δοῦλόν pov. ἄνδρα to mark the dignity (Bethge).—kara τὴν καρδίαν, cf. Jet. iii. 15.—8s ποιήσει, cf. Isa. xliv. 28, Ps. xl. 8. The fact that these quotations are thus left in their present shape with no attempt to correct them justifies the belief that we have here St. Paul’s own words. With the first part of the quota- tion cf. Clem. Rom., Cor., xviii., 1, a striking agreement; see on the one hand as against its dependence on Acts, Wendt, Ῥ. 41 (1899), and on the other hand, Bethge, in loco, and Introd., p. 37.
Ver. 23. kat’ ἐπαγγελίαν: phrase only found in Gal. iii. 29, 2 Tim. i. 1: the Messianic promises generally, or more specifically 2 Sam. vii. 12, Ps. cxxxii. 11, Isa. xi. I, 1Ο, Jer. xxiii. 5, 6, Zech. iii. 8. In the last prophecy the LXX read the verb ἄγω which is found in the verse before us, see critical ποῖες.--᾿Ιησοῦν : emphatic at the end of the clause, as τούτον at the beginning of the verse.