Ver. 24. προκηρύξ. not in LXX or Apocrypha, but in classical Greek, cf. also Josephus, Avt., x., 5, 1, and also in Plut., Ῥο]γῦ.-- πρὸ προσώπου τῆς εἰσόδου : ‘“ before the face of his entering in,” Κ.Υ. margin, cf. Luke i. 76; here used temporally, really a Hebraistic pleonasm, cf. Mal. iii. x, an εχρτες- sion used as still under the influence of that passage, Simcox, Language of the
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26. "Ανδρες ἀδελφοί, υἱοὶ γένους ᾽Αβραάμ, καὶ of ἐν ὑμῖν
φοβούμενοι τὸν Θεόν, ὑμῖν ὁ λόγος τῆς σωτηρίας ταύτης ἀπεστάλη.] 27. οἱ γὰρ κατοικοῦντες ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες αὐτῶν,” τοῦτον ἀγνοήσαντες, καὶ τὰς φωνὰς τῶν προφητῶν τὰς κατὰ πᾶν σάββατον ἀναγινωσκομένας, κρίναντες ἐπλήρωσαν: 28. καὶ µηδεµίαν αἰτίαν
1 yaw CEHLP, Vulg., Syrr. P. and H. (text), Boh., Arm., Aeth., Chrys., so Blass; np SsABD 13, 61, Sah., Syr. Harcl. mg.; so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, so
Hilg. Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.
απεσταλη EHLP; εξαπεσ. SABCD 13, 61, Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V.,
2 For τοντον ayv. «+ + των προφ. τας D has py συνιεντες τας γραφας των π. τας
... 50]. Επ] χκίν. 45.
D also reads και κριναντες επληρ., so Hilg. Par. reads
reprobaverunt for επληρωσαν, so Blass τουτον απεδοκιµασαν (omitting κριναντες επληρ.), reading κριναντες in the next verse; see on ver. 29.
N. T., Ρ. 154, and also Dalman, Die Worte Fesu, p. 23.---εἰσόδου: the entry of Jesus upon His public Messianic min- istry, a word which may also have been suggested by Mal. iii. 2, LXX.
Ver. 25. ἐπλήρου: “i.e., non multo ante finem vite,” Blass, cf. vii. 23.— δρόµον: ‘“ Paulum sapit,” cf. xx. 24, 2 Tim. iv. 7, Gal. ii. 2.--ὑπονοεῖτε: three timesin Acts, cf. xxv. 18, xxvii. 27 ; nowhere else in N.T., but see Judith xiv. 14, Tob. viii. 16, Ecclus. xxiii. 21. Note this free reproduction of the words of the Evan- gelists—essentially the same but verbally different.—ov« εἰμὶ ἐγὼ, I am not he, i.e., the Messiah; best to punctuate as in A. and R.V., so Wendt; but see on the other hand Bethge and Weiss, and the reading they adopt: τί ἐμὲ tov. εἶναι, οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐγώ; the gloss 6 XC. after ἐγώ, old enough to have crept into the text, shows that the punctuation in A.V. was a natural one, Simcox, 1. s., p. 70.
Ver. 26. ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί: the address of ver. 16 is here renewed in more affec- tionate tones, and here as in ver. 16 both Jews and proselytes are two classes, here both regarded by Paul as ἀδελφοί.---ὑμῖν, see critical notes. Some take it as mark- ing a sharp antithesis between the Jews of Antioch and those of Jerusalem (an antithesis not removed by ἡμῖν), as if the Jews at Antioch and of the Dispersion were contrasted with the Jews of the capital. But yap need not mark a con- trast, it may rather confirm the implica- tion in σωτ. ταύτης that Jesus was the Saviour, for He had suffered and died, and so had fulfilled the predictions relat- ing to the Messiah. Nor indeed was it true that those who crucified the Saviour had excluded themselves from the offer of the Gospel: 6 λόγος τῆς σ., cf. Ephes. i. 13, Phil. ii. 16, 1 Thess. ii. 13, etc.—
ἀπεστάλη: if we read the compound ἐξαπ., critical notes, R.V. ‘tis sent forth,” i.¢., from God, cf. x. 36. Weiss takes the verb as simply referring to the send- ing forth of the ‘word from the place where it was first announced. But cf. on the other hand Gal. iv. 4, 6, and ver. 23 above, where God is spoken of as the agent in the Messianic salvation, and on the possible force of 6 λόγος τῆς σωτ. and ἐξαπεστάλη here see Ramsay, Expositor, December, 1898.
Ver. 27. Both A. and Κ.Υ. take ἀγνοήσαντες aS governing τοῦτον and τὰς φωνάς. But καί may be not copula- tive but intensive—not only did they not recognise the Christ, but even condemned Him to death; so Rendall. Meyer ren- dered καί = “‘also,” and makes τὰς φωνάς the direct object of ἐπλήρ. Wendt ren- ders as A. and R.V., see critical notes.— ἀγνοήσαντες, cf. iii. 14, it is very doubt- ful how far we can see in the expression an excuse in the former passage, and guiltiness here. Paul speaks of himself as acting ἀγνοῶν and yet obtaining mercy, 1 Tim. i. 13, cf. also for the use of the word by Paul xvii. 23, and fre- quently in his Epistles.