Ver. 22. ote: the word is often found in public resolutions and official decrees, Herod., i., 3; Thuc., iv., 118 L) and S.).—rots amoo. ... ἐκλεξ. . . . γράψ.: on the irregular construction see Page and Rendall, and instances in Alford and Lumby; and further, Burton, N. T. Moods and Tenses, Ρ. 173.- σὺν ὅλῃ τῇ ἐκκλ., cf. ver. 12, πᾶν τὸ πλῆθος, cf. Iren., Hear. iii., 12.—
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Σίλαν, ἄνδρας ἡγουμένους ἐν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς, 23. γράψαντες διὰ χειρὸς αὐτῶν τάδε: Οἱ ἀπόστολοι καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι } καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοί, τοῖς κατὰ τὴν ᾽Αντιόχειαν καὶ Συρίαν καὶ Κιλικίαν ἀδελφοῖς τοῖς ἐξ ἐθνῶν..
1 και οι αδελφοι Ν«ΕΗΙ.ΕΡ, Syrr. P. and H., ArmZoh., Aethut., Chrys., so Weiss, Apostelgeschichte, p. 57; om. και οι SQ*ABCD, 13, 61, Armusc., Irint., Ath., Tisch.,
W.H., R.V., Wendt.
Blass, following Sah., Orig., reads αδελφοις here and brackets
the same word after Κιλ., so Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 171, rejecting the word as an accidental corruption; ‘‘ The Apostles and the Elders unto the brethren,” etc., R.V. renders ‘* The Apostles and the elder brethren,” a title which the Jerusalem Church might use in addressing younger Churches (Rendall), but see commentary.
ἐκλεξ. ἄνδρας πέµψαι: “to choose men out of their company, and send,” Κ.Υ. In A.V. we lose sight of the fact that the choice was thus made in the rendering “chosen men,” a rendering which takes ἐκλεξ. middle as if passive (see Wendt’s just criticism, and cf. ver. 40 ἐπιλεξ.). Ἰούδαν τὸν ἐπικ. B., see critical note, sometimes regarded as a brother of Joseph Barsabbas in i. 23. Ewald thinks that he was actually identical with him. Nothing further is known of him, but if he was a brother of Joseph Barsabbas, he too may have been amongst the per- sonal followers of the Lord; hence his leading position, see also B.D.? “' Judas,” Ρ. 1δ3ο.-- Σίλαν, cf. ver. 40, xvi. 19, 25, 2Q, XVii. 4, 1Ο, 14, XVili. 5, 2 Cor. i. 10, I Mhessi hii ο Γπεεθ ασ στ Ῥευ ν. τὸ. The name may have been contracted for Silvanus, but it may also have been a Greek equivalent for a Hebrew name
vow = Tertius, or πο, Gen. x. 24,
see especially Winer-Schmiedel, p. 143, note, and Zahn, Eznleitung, i., p. 23,
who prefers bays, », bitten, erfragen “. Paul always used the form Σιλονανός (so x Pet. v. 12), Blass, Gram., pp. Το, 71, Winer-Schmiedel, µ. s., and also pp. 74, 75. On the supposed identity of Silas with Titus, who is never mentioned in Acts, see above; and Wendt, in loco. If the two passages, 2 Cor. i. 19 and Viii. 23, on which the advocates of this view rely make the identity possible, the description of Titus, Gal. ii. 3, is com- pletely at variance with the description of Silas in this chapter (‘‘perversa, ne quid durius dicam, conjectura’’ Blass, in commenting on the supposed identity). ---Ἠγουμένους, ας νετ. 33, προφῆται ὄντες: the word is also used in Heb. xill. three times, once of those who had passed away, ver. 7, and in vv. 17 and 24 of actual authorities to be obeyed. The word is applied in the LXX to
various forms of authority and leadership (see also references to the word in classical Greek, Grimm-Thayer), and cf. Clem. Rom., Cor., i., 3 (xxi., 6), with v. 7, χχχν]]. 2, lv. 1, lx. 4. It is quite possible that it may have essentially = διδάσ- καλοι, xiii. 1 (cf. xiv. 12, ἡγούμ. τοῦ λόγου), cf. Heb. u. s., with Didaché, iv., 1, and see Zockler, Apostelgeschichte, p. 249; Harnack, Proleg. to Didaché, p. 95; or the mere fact that Judas and Silas may both have been personal followers of Jesus would have conferred upon them a high degree of authority (Plumptre); or the term ἤγου. may be used as a general one, and we cannot say to what particular office or qualifica- tion it may have extended besides that involved in ver. 32. For use of the word in sub-apostolic times see Gore, Church and the Ministry, p. 322, etc., Moberly, Ministerial Priesthood, pp. 166, 186. The word may be called charac- teristic of St. Luke (Friedrich, p. 22, cf. Luke xxii, 26, Acts vii. το (of civil rule), xiv. 12).