Ver. 5. at μὲν οὖν éxx.: the last time ἐκκλησία is used by St. Luke, except of the Jerusalem Church, and in the peculiar case of the elders at Ephesus, Hort, Ecclesia, p.g5. Rendall, Appendix, μὲν οὖν, p. 165, connects this verse with the following paragraph, cf. ix. 31, so apparently Blass in β.--ἐστερεοῦντο: only used in N.T. in Acts, cf. iii. 7, 16, and only here in this figurative sense, and it is very possible that St. Luke as a medical man might thus employ the verb which he had twice used in its literal sense, cf. similar instances in Hobart’s Introd., p. xxxii.; here as in vi. 7, ix. 31, we have the outward growth of numbers and the inward in the stead-
6.1 Διελθόντες δὲ τὴν Φρυγίαν καὶ τὴν Γαλατικὴν χώρα», κωλυθέντες ὑπὸ τοῦ ᾽Αγίου Πνεύματος λαλῆσαι τὸν λόγον ἐν τῇ Ασία, 7.7 ἐλθόντες κατὰ τὴν Μυσίαν ἐπείραζον κατὰ τὴν Βιθυνίαν πορεύεσθαι: καὶ οὐκ
1 διελθοντες HLP, . . . Chrys.; διηλθον ΝΑΒΟΡΕ, 6τ, Syrr. Pesh.-Harcl., Sah., Boh., Arm., Aeth., so Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Hilg. This latter has therefore overwhelming evidence in its favour, however the passage may be inter- preted. την Γαλ., om. την SABCD 13, 61, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt. Par. reads ‘‘ Phrygiam et Galatie regiones,” and so Blass in B: την Φρυγιαν και τας Γαλατικας Χωρας ({.ε., ‘‘vicos Galatie”’). Belser, following Blass, sees in the expression sufficient to destroy the South Galatian theory. cf. Beitrdge, p. 74. But it can scarcely be said that this reading in Par. is of any special value.
Σελθοντες κατα, but δε after ελθ. in ΝΑΒΟ(ΤΏ)Ε 13, 61, Vulg., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss. Blass and Hilg. read γενοµενοι for ελθοντες. κατα την B., but εις in NABCD, Epiph., Did., Cyr., Chrys., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilg. πορευεσθαι CDHLP, so Hilg., but -θηναι SABE 31, 61, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Wendt, Weiss. πνευμα, add Ίησου SSABC*DE, Vulg., Syrr. Pesh.- Harcl., Boh., Armeodd.3, Aethut., Did., Cyr., so Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.; for a gloss one would have added το αγιον, cf. ver. 6, but the ex- pression πνευμα |. is not found elsewhere in N.T. For επειραζον D reads ηθελαν,
$0 Blass in B, and Hilg.; see Ramsay, C. R. E., Ρ. 88.
fast holding of the faith, extensive and intensive.
Ver. 6. διελθόντες δὲ τὴν Φ. καὶ τὴν Γ. χώραν, see critical notes, and also additional note at the end of chap. xviii. If we follow R.V. text and omit the second τὴν, and regard both Φ. and Γ, as adjectives with Ramsay and Lightfoot (so Weiss and Wendt, cf. adjective Πισ- ιδίαν, xiii. 14; but see also xviii. 23), under the vinculum of the one article we have one district, ‘‘the Phrygo-Galatic country,’’ z.e., ethnically Phrygian, politi- cally Galatian; see also Turner, ‘‘ Chron- ology of the N.T.,”’ Hastings’ B.D., i., 422, and “The Churches of Galatia,”’ Dr. Gifford, Expositor, July, 1894. But Zahn, Einleitung, i., 134, objects that if Ramsay sees in ver, 6 a recapitulation of the journey, and action in vv. 4 and 5, and includes under the term Phrygo- Galatia the places visited in the first missionary journey, “ve must include under the term not only Iconium and Antioch, but also Derbe and Lystra. But the two latter, according to xiv. 6, are not Phrygian at all, but Lycaonian. Ramsay, however, sufficiently answers this objec- tion by the distinction which he draws between the phrase before us in xvi. 6 and the phrase used in xviii. 23: τὴν Γαλατικὴν χώραν καὶ Φρυγίαν. In the verse before us reference is made to the country traversed by Paul after he left Lystra, and so we have quite correctly the territory about Iconium and Antioch described as Phrygo-Galatic; but in xviii. 23 Lystra and Derbe are also included,