Ver. 36. μετὰ δέ: second missionary journey commences, ending xviii. 22. ---ἐπιστρέψαντες, reversi, cf. Luke ii. 39, W.H., xvii. 31. The word is so- used in LXX, and in modern Greek (Kennedy, p. 155).—8m, see on xiii. 2.— ἐπισκεψ., see above on vi. 3. The word was characteristic of a man like St. Paul, whose heart was the heart of the world, and who daily sustained the care of all the churches.—w@s ἔχουσι: “in fide, amore, spe . . . nervus visita- tionis ecclesiastice ’’ Bengel.
Ver. 37. ἐβουλεύσατο, but ἐβούλετο see critical note, “' wished,” volebat ; R.V., ‘““was minded” almost too strong. Pos- sibly owing to his kinship, Barnabas may have taken a more lenient view than Paul.
Ver. 38. ἠξίον, cf. xxviii. 22 (Luke vii. 7), and cf. 1 Macc. xi. 28, 2 Macc. ii.- 8, etc.—éBovaA, is a mild word compared with ἐΠίς.---συμπαραλαβεῖν, cf. xii. 25, used also by Paul in Gal. it. 1 of taking Titus with him to Jerusalem, and nowhere else in N.T. except in this passage, cf. Job i. 4, 3 Macc. i. 1, so in classical Greek.—tév ἀποστάντα am’ αὐτῶν: the neutral word ἀποχωρεῖν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν, xiii. 13, is not used here, but a word which may denote not disloyalty in the sense of apostasy from Christ, but to the mission,
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1 Tim. iv. 1 (Rendall); it is doubtful, however, whether we can press this (see Weiss, in loco).—tovrov: significant at the end of the verse, and note also decisive contradiction between ovp- παραλ., ver. 37, and μὴ συµπαραλ. here.
Ver. 39. παροξυσµός, Heb. x. 24, in different sense, nowhereelsein N.T. The verb is found twice, Acts xvii. 16, 1 Cor. xiii. 5; in the former passage of Paul’s righteous provocation in Athens, and in the latter of irritation of mind as here; the noun twice in LXX of God’s righteous anger, Deut. xxix. 28, Jer. xxxix. (xxxii.) 37 (cf. also the verb, Deut. ix. 7, 8, etc.), so too in Dem. Both noun and verb are common in medical language (Hobart) ; παροξυσµός, Φησίν, ἐγένετο οὐχ Ex Opa οὐδὲ φιλονεικία; in the result good, for Mark was stirred up to greater diligence by Paul, and the kindness of Barnabas made him cling to him all the more devotedly, cf. Oecumenius, in Ἴοεο.---ἄπο- χωρισθῆναι: “they parted asunder,” R.V., cf. διαχωρίζεσθαι ἀπό, Gen. xiii. 11, 14, cf. Luke ix. 33.---παραλαβόντα: not the compound verb, because Bar- nabas alone takes Mark.—éxmdctoa: with els also in xviii. 18, with ἀπό in xx. 6; on πλέω and the number of its compcunds in St. Luke, cf. xxvii. 4, etc. —elis Κ.: where he could be sure of influence, since by family he belonged to the Jews settled there, iv. 36. Bar- nabas is not mentioned again in Acts, and it is to be noted that St. Paul’s friendship was not permanently impaired either with him or with Mark (see Chry- sostom, in loco, and ϱ/. 1 Cor. ix.6). In Gal. ii. 13 St. Paul in speaking of Bar- nabas marks by implication his high estimate of his character and the ex- pectations he had formed of him; καὶ Β. “even Barnabas” (Lightfoot, Gal., in loco, and Hackett). According to tradi- tion Barnabas remained in Cyprus until his death, and the appearance of Mark at a later stage may point to this; but although possibly Mark’s rejoining Paul may have been occasioned by the death of Barnabas, the sources for the life of Barnabas outside the N.T. are quite un- trustworthy, ‘‘ Barnabas,” B.D.?; Hac- kett, Acts, p. 192. Whatever his fortunes may have been, St. Luke did not estimate his work in the same category as that of Paul as a main factor in the development