Ver. 34. ἀναγαγών τε αὐτοὺς: τε closely connects this second proof of his thankfulness with the first avay,: “he brought them up into,” R.V.; Blass thinks that the ava means that he brought them up from underground, but it may simply mean that the house was built over the prison; see also Knabenbauer in Ίορο.---παρέθηκε τράπ.: the phrase is a classical one, so in Homer, also in Polyb. ; so in Homer a separate table is assigned to each guest, Odys., xvii., 333; xxii., 74. But the word is also used as implying the meal on the table see L.
ree,
209---37.
353
35. Ἡμέρας δὲ γενομένης 1 ἀπέστειλαν ot στρατηγοὶ τοὺς ῥαβδού-
Χους λέγοντες, ᾽Απόλυσον τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἐκείνους.
36. ἀπήγγειλε
δὲ ὁ δεσμοφύλαξ τοὺς λόγους τούτους πρὸς τὸν Παῦλον, Ὅτι ἀπεστάλ-
κασιν οἱ στρατηγοί, ἵνα ἀπολυθῆτε: νῦν οὖν ἐξελθόντες πορεύεσθε 3 ἐν
εἰρήνη.
37. ὁ δὲ Παῦλος ἔφη πρὸς αὐτούς,ὸ Δείραντες ἡμᾶς δηµοσίᾳ,
ἀκατακρίτους, ἀνθρώπους Ῥωμαίους ὑπάρχοντας, ἔβαλον eis φυλακήν,
καὶ νῦν λάθρα ἡμᾶς ἐκβάλλουσιν; οὐ γάρ: ἀλλὰ ἐλθόντες αὐτοὶ
1D, Syr. Η. mg., after γεν., add σννηλθον οι στρατηγοι επι το αντο εις την αγοραν και αναµνησθεντες τον σεισµον τον Ύεγονοτα εφοβηθησαν, so Blass in B, and Hilg. Belser and Zéckler both defend this and subsequent additions in D as valuable in explanation of the sudden change of resolve on the part of the magistrates; but see also Weiss, Codex D, p. 86, and Ramsay, δέ, Paul, p. 223. After εκεινονς D 137, Syr. Harcl. add ονς εχθες παρελαβες.
2 After πορενεσθε Blass and Hilg. omit εν ειρηνη, following D and Gig. ΣΑ: beginning of verse Blass, following D, prefixes αναιτιους (so Hilg.), but
brackets ακατακριτους.
and Β., cf. Tobit ii. 2, παρετέθη pov ἡ τράπεζα, S. Ps. Ixxvii.20. Paul makes no question about sitting at meat with the uncircumcised (1Λ/εἴςς).---ἠγαλλιάσατο: it is suggestive that St. Luke uses the { cognate noun of this same verb to de- \ scribe the intense exulting gladness of ‘the early Church at Jerusalem in their social life, ii. 46—here was indeed an Agape, a Feast of Love, cf. 1 Pet. i. 6, 8, iv. 13 (Matt. v. 12, Rev. xix. 7); in St. Luke the word occurs twice in his Gospel, i. 47, x. 21, and in Acts ii. 26, quotation (see above); not found in classical Greek, but formed probably from ἀγάλλομαι, Hellenistic, often in LXX. At the same time the word πεπιστευκώς, perfect participle, shows that this fulness of joy was caused by { his full profession of belief; it was the joy of the Holy Ghost which followed on his baptism: ‘rejoiced greatly with ll his house, having believed on the Lord,” gaudebat quod crediderat, Blass (reading imperfect ἠγαλλιᾶτο, see critical note). See also Viteau, Le Grec du N.T., p. 194 (1503).---πανοικὶ (-el, W.H., ΑΡΡ., p. 154), cf παραπληθεί, Luke xxiii. 18, In LXX the word is found, Exod. i. 1, but A has «κίᾳ 3 Macc. iii. 27, where A has also -κίᾳ. On St. Luke’s fondness for was and its related forms see Friedrich, p. 6. The form preferred in Attic is πανοικησία. The word in text is found in Jos., Philo, and in Plato, Eryz., Ῥ. 392 C., cf. Blass, in loco, and Proleg., p. 19. Ver. 35. ἀπέσ. of στρατηγοὶ: we are not told the reason of this sudden change in the action of the pretors, and no
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doubt the omission may fairly account for the reading in D, see critical notes. At the same time it is quite characteristic of St. Luke to give the plain facts with- out entering upon explanations. Meyer thinks that they were influenced by the earthquake, while Wendt rather inclines to the view that they were incited to this action, so inconsistent with their former conduct, by fresh intelligence as to their own hasty treatment of the missionaries; Ramsay combines both views, and see also St. Paul, p. 224, on the contrast brought out by St. Luke, and also on the Bezan text; see to the same effect Zéckler, in loco. Blass accounts for the change of front on the part of the prztors by sup- posing that they saw in the earthquake a sign that they had insulted a foreign deity, and that they had therefore better dismiss his servants at once, lest further mischief should result.—tois ῥαβ.: “the lictors” R.V. margin, apparently as the duoviri aped the prztors, so the lictors carried the fasces and not the baculi, cf. Cicero, De Leg. Agr., ii., 34; Farrar, St. Paul, i., 493; Grimm-Thayer, sub v., and references in Wetstein: διὰ τί λικτώ- pets τοὺς ῥαβδούχους ὀνομάζουσι; Plut., Quest. Rom. 67.