Ver. 28. μηδὲν πράξ. σεαυτῷ κακόν: Blass remarks that the distinction be- tween πράσσειν and ποιεῖν is not always precisely observed in N.T., and takes it as = Attic, µ. ποιησῆς. Ἠπράσσειν is not found in St. Matthew or St. Mark and only twice in St. John, whilst by St. Luke it is used six times in his Gospel, thirteen times in Acts, elsewhere in N.T. only by Paul. the annals of suicide (C. and H.); see also Plumptre’s note im Ίοεο.-- ἅπαντες' γάρ ἐ.: ‘Multa erant graviora, cur non deberet se interficere; sed Paulus id arripit, quod maxime opportunum εταί Bengel.
Ver. 29. φῶτα;: “lights,” R.V., plurai, and only in plural in later Greek, cf. 1 Macc. xii. 29, of fires in a military en- campment; “the prisoners’ chains were
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- , ‘ n , ο ‘ 9 » § τῷ Παύλῳ καὶ τῷ Σίλα: 30. καὶ προαγαγὼν αὐτοὺς έξω,” ἔφη, Κύριοι,
τί µε δεῖ ποῖειν ἵνα σωθῶ; 31. οἱ δὲ εἶπον, Πίστευσον ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον
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32. καὶ ἐλάλησαν
αὐτῷ τὸν λόγον ὃ τοῦ Κυρίου, καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ αὐτοῦ. / 33 ee ETRY ait το οἶκίᾳ αὐτοῦ. /~33-
“34. ἀναγαγών τε αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ, παρέθηκε τράπείαν,
καὶ ἠγαλλιάσατο πανοικὶ πεπιστευκὼς τῷ Θεῷ.
At beginning of verse Blass in B prefixes ακουσας δε ο δεσμοφυλαξ (quo audito
cust. carc. Gig., Wer.).
ΣΤ, Syr. H. mg. add (και) τους λοιπους ασφαλισαµενος after εξω, see on this touch Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 222, who accepts it as most prob. genuine, retained by Blass and Hilg.; Syr. H. mg. adds *appropinquavit et”’ (προσηλθεν in β).
ὅπου Κ., W.H. text, R.V. marg., Blass, Wendt, Weiss, following §Q*B, read Θεου;
see Weiss, Apostelgeschichte, p. 5.
loosed, and worse chains were loosed from himself; he called for a light, but the true heat was lighted in his own heart”? Chrys., Hom., xxxvi.—eloemj- δησε, cf. xiv. 14, ἐκπ., both verbs only in Luke in N.T. In LXX, cf. Amos v. το, Sus., ver. 26, especially the latter, found also in classical Greek.—évrpopos γεν., see αὔονε.- προσέπεσε: he may have known of the words of the maiden, ver. 17, and recognised their truth in the earthquake, and in the calmness and de- meanour of Paul; hence too his question.
Ver. 30. Κύριοι, in respect, cf. John πχ. 15.—tva σωθῶ»; the word of the maiden σωτηρία and the occurrence of the night may well have prompted the question. The context, ver. 31, seems to indicate the higher meaning here, and the question can scarcely be limited to mere desire of escape from personal danger or punishment. On the addition in D see critical note.
Ver. 31. ἐπὶ τὸν Κ.: “non agnoscunt se dominos” Bengel—they point him to the One Lord.—olkos . . . οἰκίᾳ: the first word is most frequently used in Attic Greek, and in the N.T. for household, cf. ver. 15, but both words are used in Attic, and in the N.T., for familia. σὺ καὶ 6 οἶκός σου: ‘and thou shalt be saved, thou and thy house,” R.V., not as if his faith could save his household, as A.V. might imply, but that the same way was open to him and to them (Alford, see also Meyer-Wendt, and Page).
Ver. 32. καὶ ἐλάλησαν: before bap- tism instruction.
Ver. 33. ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ Spa τῆς νυκτὸς, cf. νετ. 18, ‘at that hour of the night”; the jailor will not delay for a moment his first Christian duty, Matt. xxv. 36.— ἔλουσεν ἀπὸ τῶν πληγῶν: “and washed them of their stripes,” Ramsay ; 7.¢., the stains of the wounds caused by the lictors (for similar construction of Aovew ἀπό see Deissmann, Neue Bibelstudien, p. 54). Hobart, p. 112, compares Galen’s words, τὸ αἷμα τοῦ TeTpwpévov µέρους ἆπο- πλΏῖναι.- καὶ οἱ αὐτοῦ πάντες: for the bearing of the words on Infant Baptism, see on ver. 15. It may of course be said that the expression evidently implies the same persons who are instructed in ver. 32, but it cannot be said that the phrase may not include any other members of the household. The two washings aré, put in striking juxtaposition: the waters \ of baptism washed the jailor from deeper ~ stains and more grievous wounds than those of the lictors’ rods, Chrys., Hom., αχχν].---παραχρῆμα, emphatic, see above on p. 106.