καταγγέλλουσιν ὑμῖν ὁδὸν σωτηρίας. διαπονηθεὶς δὲ ὁ Παῦλος, καὶ ἐπιστρέψας, τῷ
πολλὰς ἡμέρας.
18 τοῦτο δὲ ἐποίει ἐπὶ
πνεύµατι εἶπε, Παραγγέλλω σοι ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ
ἐξελθεῖν 1 ἀπ᾿ αὐτῆς.
καὶ ἐξῆλθεν αὐτῇ τῇ dpa.
19. ᾿Ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ
κύριοι αὐτῆς, 1 ὅτι ἐξῆλθεν ἡ ἐλπὶς τῆς ἐργασίας αὐτῶν, ἐπιλαβόμενοι τὸν Παῦλον καὶ τὸν Σίλαν εἵλκυσαν εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας > -
| Instead of εξελ. D has wa εξελθῃς; instead of εξ. αντῃ Ty ωρᾳ D has ευθεως;: so Blass in B, and Hilg. Belser strongly supports D, see his remarks, Beitrdge, p.77 ;
Blasseretains changes in β.
2 Instead of οτι εξηλθεν η ελπις Blass and Hilg. read οτι απεστερηνται της εργ. αυτων, and adds with D ης ειχον δι αυτης; but this spoils the play on the
εξηλθεν, see belowe
FS αρχοντας, but Gig., Lucif. (not D), Blass (‘‘recte’), read στρατηγους,
omitting στρατηγοις in ver. 20.
Ver. 18. διαπονηθεὶς, only here and in iv. 2in N.T.; its use in LXX in two passages only does not help us much, see iv. 2, and in classics 1t 15 not used in the sense required here. Aquila uses it four
times of the Hebrew NY in passages
which show that the word may combine the ideas of grief, pain, and anger, Gen. vi. 6, xxxiv. 7, 1 Sam. xx. 3, 34. It may be noticed that the word and other com- pounds of πονεῖν are frequent in medical writers.—MapayycAdw, see oni. 4. The same strong word is used of our Lord, Luke viii. 29, where He charged another unclean spirit to come out.—dévépart, see above on iii. 6, ‘‘ Demonology,” Hastings’ B.D., where reference 1s made to Sayce, Hibbert Lect., pp. 302-347, as to the belief in the powerful efficacy of the mame, the name meaning to an ancient Semite personal power and existence.— ἐξελθεῖν ἀπ᾿ αὐτῆς: the phrase occurs in Luke much more frequently than in any other N.T. writer; nine times in his Gospel of the coming out of evil spirits, as here. Rendall sees in the phrase the medical accuracy of the writer in describ- ing the process of the cure; the evil spirit must not only come out, but de- part, pp. 104, 280; it must however be remembered that St. Matthew uses the same phrase twice of the departure of evil spirits from men, xii. 43, xvii. 18. Paul charges the evil spirit to depart; it departed, and with it departed the master’s hope of gain (see also Weiss, im loco). ---αὐτῇῃ τῇ Spa: ‘that very hour,” R.V., cf. xxii. 13, eo ipso tempore; peculiar to Luke, cf. Luke il. 38, x. 21, xii. 12, xx. 19, xxiv. 33 (so too Friedrich, p. 37). Weare not told anything further of the history of
the girl, but we may well believe that she too would partake of the generous help of Lydia, and of the other Christian women at Philippi, who would see in her no longer a bondservant to the many lords who had had dominion over her, but a sister beloved in the One Lord. Ver. το. ὅτι ἐξ. ἡ ἐλπὶς «.7.A.: “* The most sensitive part of ‘ civilised’ man is his pocket,” Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 237, and we can see how bitter was the hos- tility excited both here and at Ephesus when the new faith threatened existing pecuniary profits.—émAaB.: here with hostile intent, see above on ix. 27 and further on xvii. το.-- εἵλκυσαν: with violence, so ἕλκω in James ii. 4 (Acts xxi. 30), cf. Saul before his conversion, viii. 3, σύρων. ‘‘ Everywhere money the cause of evils: O that heathen cruelty! they wished the girl to be still a demoniac, that they might make money by her!” Chrys., Hom., xxx., 5.—els τὴν Gy.: where the magistrates would sit, as in the Roman forum.—dpxovras . . . στρα- τηγοῖς: it is of course possible that the two clauses mean the same thing, and that the expressions halt, as Lightfoot and Ramsay maintain, between the Greek form and the Latin, between the ordinary Greek term for the supreme board of magistrates in any city ἄρχοντες, and the popular Latin designation στρατηγοί, pretores (“non licet distinguere inter apy. etorpar.,”’ Blass, 5ο Ο. Holtzmann, Weiss, Wendt). But the former may mean the magistrates who happened to be presiding at the time in the forum, whereas the milder verb προσαγαγόντες may imply that there was another stage in the case, and that it was referred to the στρατηγοί, the pretors (as they