XV. 1. ΚΑΙ τινες κατελθόντες ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰουδαίας ἐδίδασκον τοὺς
ἀδελφούς, Ὅτι ἐὰν μὴ περιτέμνησθε] τῷ ἔθει Μωῦσέως, οὐ δύνασθε
l περιτεµνησθε, but περιτµηθητε ΦΑΡΒΟΤ 13, 40, 180, Const. Apost., Epiph., so Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Hilg. After lovSatas Syr. Harcl. mg., 8, 137 add των πεπιστευκοτων απο Της αιρεσεως των Φαρισαιων, Obviously antici-
pating ver. 5.
After Μωνσεως Const. App. add και τοις αλλοις απασιν (εθεσιν)
ors διεταξατο περιπατητε: in D, Syr. Harcl. mg. (Sah.) after περιτ. και τῳ εθει Μ.
περιπατητε, cf. Xxi. 21.
Blass in B follows Const. App. The Western reading
may be original, but it may also be due to assimilation to ver. 5 and xxi. 21.
the brethren.—wepitépynode, see critical note.—t@ ἔθει Μ.: R.V. as in vi. 15, “custom of Moses’; in A.V. ‘‘ manner,” which might be used of a temporary fashion or habit; ἔθος marks a national custom, but see also Deissmann, Neue Bibelstudien, p. 79. On its national significance, see art. ‘ Circumcision,” B.D.2, and Hastings’ B.D., ‘ Beschnei- dung”; Hamburger, Real-Encyclopdadie des $udentums, i., 2, 174; Weber, Fiidische Theol., p. 266 (1897); Renan, Saint Paul, p. 66; and cf. Book of Fubilees, xv., cf. i. ; Assumption of Moses, viii.; Jos., Amt., xx., 2, 4; ο. Apion., iL, 14; Vita, κχὶῆι---σωθῆναι, i.¢., in the Messianic salvation, cf. ii. 40, iv. 12, xi. 14. On the tradition that Cerinthus was amongst these Judaisers, as he and his had already rebuked Peter, Acts xi. 2, see “Cerinthus,” Dict. of Christ. Biog., i, 447- It is very probable that the successful mission of Paul and Barnabas was really the immediate cause of this protest on the part of the narrow Judaic party. This party, as the Church in Jerusalem grew, may well have grown also; the case of Cornelius had been acquiesced in, but it was exceptional, and it was a very different thing to be asked to embrace all Gentiles in the new cove- nant, and to place them on a level with the Jewish Christians, whether they did homage or not to the Mosaic law, Hort, Ecclesia, p. 67; McGiffert, Apostolic Age, p- 192.
Ver. 2. στάσεως: the word, with the exception of Mark xv. 7, and Heb. ix. 8 (in a totally different sense), is peculiar to St. Luke: twice in his Gospel, and five times in Acts; used in classical Greek of sedition, discord, faction, and so of the factious opposition of parties in the state; frequent in LXX, but only once in any similar sense, Prov. xvii. 14. --συζητήσεως, but {yr.: ‘ questioning,” R.V., cf. John iii. 25; three times in St. Paul, τ Tim. vi. 4, 2: Tim. ti. 23, Tit. ili, 9, in a depreciatory sense in each case; not in LXX or Apocrypha.—ov«
ὀλίγης, see on xii. 18 and xiv. 28; eight times in Acts.—é€ragay, sc., ot ἀδελφοὶ, ver. 1; no discrepancy with Gal. ii. 2, see additional note.—twas ἄλλους: Titus amongst them, Gal. ii. 1, 3 ; expression found only here in N.T.; men like the prophets and teachers in xiii. 1 may have been included. On the attempt to identify Titus with Silas see Zéckler, in loco, and further Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 390, for the entire omission of Titus from Acts and its probable reason; Lightfoot, Biblical Essays, p. 281; Farrar, St. Paul, i1., 532; Alford, 1Π., 106, Proleg. A Gentile con- vert, and so keenly concerned in the settlement of the question, and in himself a proof of the “repentance unto life” granted to the Gentiles.—mpeof. : first mentioned in xi. 30, cf. note, in all official communications henceforth prominent, xv. 2, 4, 6, 22, 23, xvi. 4, xxi. 18, Light- foot, Phil., p. 1091.--- ζητήματος: five times in Acts, nowhere else in N.T.; once in LXX, Ezek. xxxvi. 37 A (see Hatch and Redpath), and in classical Greek; “question,” A, and R.V.