Ver. 24. διελ. τὴν Π. “having made a missionary journey through Pisidia,” see above on xiii. 6. Here it seems clearly implied that Pisidian Antioch was not in Pisidia, see above on xiii. 14, and Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 124.
Ver. 25. καὶ A, ἐν Πέργῃ τὸν λόγον: in the beginning of their journey they probably made a slight stay at Perga, but without preaching there—possibly
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᾽Αττάλειαν: 26. κἀκεῖθεν ἀπέπλευσαν eis ᾽Αντιόχειαν ὅθεν ἦσαν παραδεδοµένοι τῇ Χάριτι τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰς τὸ ἔργον ὃ ἐπλήρωσαν.
for the reason mentioned above which prompted them to hurry on to Antioch, and possibly because, as C. and H. (so Felten) think, the inhabitants at the time of the Apostles’ first visit were all leaving Perga for the cool mountain districts, their summer retreats, whereas on the return journey of the missionaries Perga would again be full (C. and H., pp. 131, 158, smaller edition).—év Π., see critical ποίθς. -- κατέβησαν, went down, i.e., to the sea coast where Attalia lay, cf. xvi. 8 (xiii. 4), Jonah i. 3, so in classical Greek ἀναβαίνω, to go up from the οοαδί.---᾽Αττάλειαν: mentioned because it was the harbour of embarka- tion, and so called from Attalus II. Phila- delphus, king of Pergamus, its builder, B.C. 159-138; is a port for the trade of Egypt and Syria, Strabo, xiv., 4. It bears the modern name of Adalia, and until quite recent days it was the chief harbour of the south coast of Asia Minor. See B.D.?, and Hastings’ B.D., ‘Attalia”’ (Ramsay). The distance from Perga was about sixteen miles, and the travellers would reach it across the plain: formerly they had gone up the Cestrus to Perga, and probably they now go to Attalia to find a ship for Antioch. See Hackett, in loco, and C. and H.
Ver. 26. κἀκεῖθεν, cj. vii. 3, and Luke xi. 53, in six other places in Acts in a local sense as here, only once elsewhere in N.T., in Mark ix. 30, in same sense; see also xiii. 21.--ἦσαν παραδεδοµ.: “they had been committed,” R.V., in xv. 40 ‘‘commended’”’; in both passages A.V. ‘‘recommended,” a rendering which has changed its meaning; only in these two passages in this sense, but cf. 1 Pet. ii. 23 (John xix. 30).— ἐπλήρωσαν, cf. xii. 25, xiii. 25, still, as hitherto, St. Paul found the χάρις of God “ suf- ficient”.
Ver. 27. συν. τὴν ἐκκλ., cf. xv. 30, as was natural, for they had been sent out by ἴπεπι.--- ἀνήγγειλαν: xv. 4 (xx. 20, 27), lit., to carry back tidings (so in classical Greek, as from a less to a greater), cf. 2 Cor. vii. 7; used here as in Aischylus, Xen., Polyb., of messengers reporting what they had seen or heard (Grimm). Blass takes it as simply = ἀπαγγέλλω as in LXX and later Greek. --ὅσα: ‘how many (or ‘how great’)
things ”.— per’ αὐτῶν, i.e, on their behalf; το. αν. 4joIbuke ο 8 παιος. 3η, ος ας θα απι «αρ Psivicexvi. πο,
3, Hebrew OY σον, Ps) ἐκιχ 65,
and cannot = per ifsos, which would require 8.4d—the phrase may therefore be described as a Hebraism; it occurs only in Luke; Friedrich, p. 33.--ὅτι ἤνοιξε - . . θύραν: a striking coincidence with St. Paul’s use of the same metaphor elsewhere, cf. 1 Cor. xvi. 9, 2 Cor. ii. 12, Col. iv. 3, and cf. Rev. iii. 8. St. Paul’s Galatian Epistle clearly shows that his missionary work in Galatia had met with much success, and that the Churches now founded held a large place in his affec- tions, cf. Gal. iv. 14, 15. Enough had
- been accomplished, even if all his desires
were still unfulfilled, to make him eager for a continuation of the work to which he had been called as an Apostle of the Gentiles, see McGiffert, Apostolic Age, ΡΡ. 191, 192; Hort, Ecclesia, p. 66: ‘ per- haps the greatest epoch in the history of the Ecclesia at large”: Spitta refers the whole verse to his Redactor, p. 171.