εὐφροσύνης τὰς καρδίας ἡμῶν. 18. καὶ ταῦτα λέγοντες, μόλις 3
, ‘ 4 lo] x , > A κατέπαυσαν τοὺς ὄχλους τοῦ μὴ θύειν αὐτοῖς. q 3 fol A - 10." ᾿Επῆλθον δὲ ἀπὸ Αντιοχείας καὶ ᾽Ικονίου ᾿Ιουδαῖοι. καὶ ” A ” πείσαντες τοὺς ὄχλους, καὶ λιθάσαντες τὸν Παῦλον, ἔσυρον ἔξω τῆς
1 ppiv .. . ημων, but υμιν .. « νΌµων Ν ΒΟΡΕ, Syr. Harcl., Arm., Ir., Ath., so Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.; υμιν however is om. by WA 13, 61, Vulg. !
2 wodts, D reads µογις, and for κατεπανσαν . . . αντοις Flor. has “‘vix per- suaserunt ne immolarent sibi illi homines” (so Blass in B, cf. Hilg.). C, many min., and Syr. H. mg. add αλλα πορενεσθαι εκαστον εις τα ιδια, cf. v. 18 D, John vil. 53; Flor. adds ‘‘et discedere eos ab se” (so Blass in B preceding previous addition; Hilg. omits).
* At the begin. of verse CDE (Flor. Cassiod.), Syr. H. mg., Arm., Bed. read διατρι- βοντων δε αυτων και διδασκοντων evidently to show that the outbreak did not ensue immediately upon the intended worship. D, Flor., Syr. H. mg. (E, Vulg.) insert τινες before lov8. and change order. C, Syr. H. mg., Flor. proceed και διαλεγοµενων αυτων παρρησιᾳ επεισαν τους οχλους αποστηναι am’ αντων (‘ne crederent illis docentibus,” Flor.), λεγοντες οτι ουδεν αληθες λεγουσιν αλλα παντα ψενυδονται--- so Blass throughout in β, and Hilg., see Belser, p. 71, in support, on the ground that B thus explains fully the change in the attitude of the people; but the whole
might proceed from a reviser, and need not be original.
of the hymn sung in the procession for the sacrifice, and that St. Paul made the words his text; see Humphry, in loco; Farrar, St. Paul, i., p. 384; Felten, in loco; but it may be fairly said that the Ο.Τ. language was in itself quite suff- cient to suggest the Apostle’s words. On the remarkable parallels between this speech and the sayings of Pseudo-Hera- cleitus in his letters see Gore, Ephesians, Ρ. 253 ff., but see also Bernays, Die Hera- klitischen Briefe, p. 20.---πάντα τὰ ἔθνη: “allthe Gentiles,” R.V., the words divided mankind into two classes, but there was the same Lord over all, Rom. tii. 29.— ἐν ταῖς παρφχ. γενεαῖς: “in the genera- tions gone by,” R.V. παρῳχ.: not in LXX or Apocrypha, but classical, and used also by Josephus.—etage (cf. xvii. 30, Rom. iii. 25, 26) . « . πορεύ. ταῖς ὁδοῖς avtoev,7.¢., without summoning them as now to repent, cf. for the combination ix. 31, and for the expression 2 Cor. xii. 18, Jude v. 11, James v. 2ο (in classical Greek cf. Thuc., iii, 64, ἅἄδικον ὁδὸν ἰέναι), cf. also the contrast between God’s ways and the wilfulness of Israel in the past, Ps. Ixxxi. 13 and previous verses, expressed in the same phraseology. Ver. 17. καίτοιγε, see critical notes. If we read καίτοι the word is only found in the N.T. here and in Heb. iv. 3; used here as an adversative conjunction; see Simcox, Language of the N. Τ., p. 168, and further Blass, Gramm., pp. 242, 264; Viteau, Le Grec du N. Τ., p. 118 (1893);
see 4 Macc. 1.6.---ἀμάρτυρον: notin LXX or Apocrypha; only here in N.T., but in classical Greek, and also in Josephus, see instances in Wetstein. This witness isnot as at Athens, xvii. 27, Rom. ii. 15, to man’s consciousness and conscience, but rather to God’s presence in nature, cf. for the expression LXX, Ps. Ixxxviii. 37, 6 μάρτυς ἐν οὐρανῷ πιστός, and Pseudo-Hera- cleitus, letter ἵν., where the moon is spoken of as God’s οὐράνιος μαρτυρία; see below on ver. 17.—ovK ἀφῆκεν: non veliquit sed sivit (Β]αςς).- -ἀγαθοποιῶν, see critical notes. Neither ἀγαθουργέω nor ἀγαθοεργέω, 1 Tim. vi. 18, occur in classical Greek or LXX. T.R. uses the more familiar word; found three times in Luke’s Gospel and elsewhere in N.T.,; and also a few times in LXX (in different senses), but not in classical Greek; see Plummer on Luke vii 33, and Hatch, Essaysin B.G., p. 7.