as Wendt points out, depends on the con- text.—éx8uny. : only here and in quota- tion, xiii. 41 in N.T., ‘telling the tale of the conversion of the Gentiles”; so διη- γεῖσθαι and ἐξηγεῖσθαι more frequently in Luke than in other N.T. writers. Hobart describes all three as medical terms but all three also occur frequently in LXX. ἐκδ.: cf. Hab. i. 5; several times in Ecclus., also in Josephus and Arist. (Grimm-Thayer, sub v.).—x. peyd- Any : on Luke’s fondness for the predicate péyas, Friedrich, p. 41, with χαρά as here, cf. Luke ii. 10, xxiv. 52, Acts viii. 8 (Matt. ii. το, xxviii. 8), cf. LXX, Jon. iv. 6, Isa, xxxix. 2, A. Ῥ.---ἐποίουν, im- perfect, continuous joy, as they went from place to place, perhaps visiting Cornelius or Philip the Evangelist, viii. 40, in their progress. — ἐπιστροφὴν: only here in N.T. (cf. 1 Thess. i. g), Ecclus. xviii. 21 (20), xlix. 2.
cf. 2 Macc. iv. 22 (but see Hatch and Redpath) ; with the idea of receiving with welcome, ϱ/. Mark iv. 20, Heb. xii. 6 (quotation); see Syn. δέχ. and Aan B., Grimm-Thayer; in classical Greek = ὑπο- Séxopar. —twd τῆς ἐκκ.: the whole Church is regarded as concerned in the matter ; as present at the public discus- sion in ver. 12 and as concurring in the decision, ver. 22 (30) ; the decree is issued by the Apostles and Elders, see on ver. 23.---μετ᾽ αὐτῶν, see above on xiv. 27. Ver. 5. For D see critical note.— ἐξανέστησαν : compound verb in this sense here only in N.T. (only elsewhere in quotation, Mark xii. 19, Luke xx. 28), but in classical Greek and in LXX, ef. Obad. i, 1, Ecclus. viii. rz, xvii. 23, 1 Macc. ix. 4ο. The double compound apparently gives at least some measure of emphasis, Simcox, Language of the N.T., Ρ. 43.---τινες τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς αἱρ. τῶν %.: