Ver. 32. καὶ αὐτοὶ προφ. ὄντες: Wendt, so Meyer, takes καὶ αὐτοί not with προφ. ὄντες (these words in com- mas), but with the words which follow, indicating that Judas and Silas gave encouragement to the brethren person- ally (cf. ver. 27), as the letter had verb- ally; but punctuation of Τ.Ε. in R.V., W.H., Weiss, etc. On καὶ αὐτοί and its frequency in St. Luke, Friedrich, p. 37; Hawkins, Hore Synoptice (1899), p.
ἐπεστήριξαν. 33. Ποιήσαντες δὲ χρόνον, ἀπελύθησαν μετ εἰρήνης ἀπὸ τῶν ἀδελφῶν πρὸς τοὺς ἀποστόλους. 34.7 ἔδοξε δὲ τῷ Σίλα
1 αποστολους EHLP, Syrr. P. and Ἡ., Bohwi., Arm., Chrys.; but αποστειλαντας αυντους NABCD, Vulg., Sah., Bohboett., Aethro., so Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Blass and Hilg.
2 Om. SABEHLP 61, Vulg. (am. fu. demid.), Syr. Pesh., Syr. H. text, Bohboett., Chrys., so Tisch., W.H., R.V. text, Weiss, Wendt. In CD 13, Vulgclem. + tol., Sah.,. Bohwi., Syr. Harcl. mg., Arm., Aethut., so Blass and Hilg. Also D, Gig., Wern., Prov.,. Vulg.clem., Cassiod. add povos Se lovSas επορευθη (Wern. adding “‘reversus est Hiero- solyma,”’ cf. also Vulg.cl.). It is difficult to see why if 343 was genuine it should have been omitted, but the sentence may have been introduced to account for the presence of Silas at Antioch in νετ. 40; so Weiss and Corssen. (In C and D αυτους. instead of αυτου, and in a few mins. αντοθι.) Ver. 344 is defended as genuine by Ramsay, St. Paul, pp. 174, 175; Zahn, Einleitung, i., p. 148 (whilst both regard 34b as a gloss); cf. Belser, Beitrdge, p. 73, on the same ground, viz., that ver. 33 does not declare that Judas and Silas actually departed, but only that they were free to depart. The Bezan reviser found the first part of the verse in his text and added’ the second. Blass retains both parts of the verse in B. Ifthe first clause was intro- duced to explain a supposed difficulty about Silas, it must be remembered that the difficulty was more fanciful than real, since Barnabas takes Mark from Ferusalem,
xiii. 13 (see Ramsay, 1. s.).
W.H., 4ῤΡ., p. 96, considers the first clause as probably
Alexandrian, as well as Western, while Corssen regards them both as Western.
33.--παρεκάλεσαν: A. and R.V. “ex- horted”’; R.V. margin, “comforted,” Ramsay, ‘“‘encouraged’’ (so Hort; or “‘exhorted’’), Possibly the word may include something of all these meanings (see also Alford’s ποίε).--ἐπεστήριξαν, cf. xiv. 22.
Ver. 33. ποιήσαντες δὲ χρόνον, cf. xviii. 23, and xx. 3, only in Acts in N.T., cf. 2 Cor. xi. 25, James iv. 13. For the phrase both in LXX and classical Greek (so in Latin), see Wetstein, Blass, Grimm. In LXX cf. Prov. xiii. 23, Eccl. vi. 12
(Tob. x. 7), so Hebrew FDI. —per’ εἰρή-
νης: exact phrase only Heb. xi. 31 in N.T.; in LXX several times; in Apocryha, in 1 and 3 Macc.—mpés τοὺς atoo.: but if as in R.V., “unto those that had sent them”’ (see critical notes and Hort, Ecclesia, p. 73), {.ε., the whole synod at Jerusalem, not only the Apostles.
Ver. 34. Omitted in R.V. text, but not in margin. See critical notes.
Ver. 35. διέτριβον, cf. xii. 19, and see also on xvi. 12. In LXX ef. Lev. xiv. 8, Jer. xlii. (xxxv.) 7, Judith x. 2, 2 Macc. xiv. 23. So also in classics with or with- out χρόνον.---διδάσ. καὶ εὐαγγ. : possibly the first may refer to work inside the Church, and the second to work out- side, but the distinction can scarcely be pressed. Within this time, according to Wendt, falls the incident between Paul and Peter, Gal. ii. 11. On the other hand, see Weiss, Apostelgeschichte, p. 194, who thinks that the τινας ἡμέρας
excludes, Gal. ii., etc., but the phrase is very indefinite, and may have included months as well as days, cf. xvi. 12, and ix. 23. On the incident referred to see additional note at end of chapter.