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λέγων, ᾿Ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί, ἀκούσατέ µου: 14. Συμεὼν ἐξηγήσατο, καθὼς πρῶτον ὁ Θεὸς ἐπεσκέψατο λαβεῖν ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαὸν ἐπὶ 1 τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ: 15. καὶ τούτῳ συμφωνοῦσιν οἱ λόγοι τῶν προφητῶν, καθὼς γέγραπται, 16. “Meta ταῦτα ἀναστρέψω καὶ ἀνοικοδομήσω
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lem, but om. ΝΔΑΒΟΡΕ, 61, Vulg., Sah., Syr. P. and H., Arm., Iren., Const. Rebapt., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.
? xareoxappeva ACDEHLP, Const., Chrys., so Lach., Blass in B, κατεστραµµενα Ν(Β) 13, 33, 34, 5ο Tisch., W.H., R.V., Wendt, Weiss.
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Gentiles; (2) his opinion on the con- ditions of that reception. 4, ἀκούσατέ pov: only here and in James ii. 5.
Ver. 14. Zupeov: Peter so named only here and in 2 Pet. 11. 1. The use of the word here in its old He- brew form by James is exactly what we should expect, cf. Luke ii. 25, 34, W.H.; probably therefore the form current in Jerusalem, a form which reappears in the list of the successors of St. James in the bishopric of the Holy City, Eusebius, H. E., iv., 5, cf. Luke xxiv. 34, from which also it would appear that the Hebrew name of Peter, in the contracted or uncontracted form, was current in Jerusalem.—mp@rov like am’ Gp. ἡμ. in ver. 7.---ἐπεσκέψατο, cf. James i. 27, and above on vii. 23, Kennedy, Sources of N. T. Greek, p. 1ο5.---λαβεῖν : infinitive of purpose, ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαὸν, ex gentibus populum, “ egregium para- doxon ” Bengel; the converts from among the Gentiles were no less than Israel the people of God. On ἔθνος and λαός see iii. 25.—7@ ὀνόματι, i.¢., who should bear His Name as a people of God, or may mean simply “for Himself,” God’s name being often so used. On the “pregnant use” of the word cf. James ii. 7, v. 10, 14. St. James thus in his address agrees with St. Peter.
Ver. 15. καὶ τούτω, “and to this agree,” A. and R.V., i.e., to the fact just stated (so Wendt, Weiss, Blass, Ramsay) ; if the pronoun referred to St. Peter, as some take it, we should have had οἱ προφῆται, not as in text, οἱ A. τῶν π. The quotation Amos. ix. 11, 12, is freely cited from the LXX, and indeed the
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upon that version.—rév προφ., plural, as including those prophets whose words of prophecy had been of similar import.