11-16.
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γυναικῶν τῶν εὐσχημόνων καὶ ἀνδρῶν οὐκ ὀλίγοι. 13. ὡς δὲ ἔγνωσαν
οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Θεσσαλονίκης Ἰουδαῖοι, ὅτι καὶ ἐν τῇ Βεροίᾳ κατηγγέλη
ὑπὸ τοῦ Παύλου ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἦλθον κἀκεῖ σαλεύοντες τοὺς
ὄχλους.
14. εὐθέως δὲ τότε τὸν Παῦλον ἐξαπέστειλαν ot ἀδελφοὶ
πορεύεσθαι Gs? ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν ' ὑπέμενον δὲ ὅ τε Σίλας καὶ 6
Τιμόθεος ἐκεῖ.
15. Ot δὲ καθιστῶντες τὸν Παῦλον ἤγαγον αὐτὸν
1 After σαλ. SABD 13, 40, 61, verss., except Aeth., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss,.
Wendt, Blass, Hilg., add και ταρασσοντες.
ver. 8. so Hilg. and Blass in β. reason of this turbulent action.
Meyer thinks the words a gloss and ϱ/.
D also reads οτι (ο) λογος του Θεου κατηγγελη εις Βεροιαν και επιστευσαν, The και επιστ., the reception of the Gospel, was the At end of verse D, Syr. Pesh. add ου διελιµπανον
(cf. Acts viii. 24 B), so Blass and Hilg. In Luke vii. 45 we have διαλειπω, and only
in that place in N.T.
But διαλιµπανω occurs also, Tob. x. 7, ον διελιµπανε
θρηνουσα Τωβιαν (but S al.). This may have suggested viii. 24. It may perhaps be noted that διαλιµπανω is a medical word = διαλειπω (Galen).
2 Before επι read according to SABE 13, 40, 61, Vulg., Syr. Pesh., Boh., so Tisch.,
W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, ews instead of ws; Meyer retains ως.
In D, Sah., Aeth.,
word omitted. vumepevov, but vrepeway S95 61, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt; νπεµεινεν AD 27, 137, Sah., Syr. Pesh., so Lach, Hilg., and Blass in B. τε (for δε) WABE, Syr. P. and H., Aeth., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt.
from one place to another, and the use of his name alone shows that he was their chief aim.—xéxet: the word is often taken with σαλεύοντες, for it was not their advent which had happened previously, but their incitement to risk against Paul, so Page, Weiss, Wendt, Rendall, etc.; on the word see above on xiv. 7.--σαλεύοντες, cf. also for its figu- rative use 2 Thess. ii. 2, very frequent in LXX, and sometimes in figurative sense, as often in the Psalms, cf. 1 Macc. vi. 8, see above on ii. 25, and critical note on D.
Ver. 14. εὐθέως δὲ τότε: evidently the same riot and danger followed as at Thessalonica; St. Luke often passes over the difficulties and dangers which drove Paul from place to place (Ramsay).—os: if we read ἕως, R.V., see critical note, «ας far as to the sea,” but ὡς ἐπί might well mean ad mare versus, ad mare, so Alford, Blass, and instances in Wetstein. There is no need to suppose that the words express a feigned movement to elude pursuit, ‘“‘as if towards the sea” (see this meaning supported by Rendall, p. Ιο8).---ἐπὶ τὴν θ.: probably he would embark at Dium near the foot of Olym- pus, which was connected by a direct road with Bercea (Lewin, C. and H., but see, however, Renan, Saint Paul, p. 166, note).—tmép. . . . ἐκεῖ, i.¢., remained behind at Bercea, probably to gain the first intelligence from Thessalonica as to the possibility of St. Paul’s return,
and to bring the news to the Apostle, whose next stage may not have been decided upon until he reached the coast.
Ver. 15. καθιστῶντες, see critical note, ἐ.6., the Bercean brethren. In N.T. only here in this sense, cf. Josh. vi. 23, 2 Chron. xxviii. 15, so also in classical Greek and in later Greek (instances in Wetstein); they accompanied Paul pro- bably for protection as well as guidance (it has sometimes been supposed that disease of the eyes rendered the guidance necessary, but the word is used quite generally); see further additional note at end of chapter and critical note above, Ramsay, Church in the Roman Empire, ΡΡ. 159, 160. If we compare xviii. 5 it looks as if Timothy and Silas only over- took Paul at Corinth, and that he had left Athens before they reached that city. But from 1 Thess. iii. 1 it appears that Timothy was with Paul at Athens, and was sent from thence by him to Thessa- lonica, and this is quite in accordance with Paul’s earnest wish that Timothy and Silas should come to him as quickly as possible (if we suppose that they only rejoined him in xviii. 5, they must have taken a much longer time than was necessary for the journey). But if Paul remained alone, as he states, 1 Thess. iii. 1, at Athens, Silas must also have been sent away; and we may well suppose that as Timothy was sent to comfort the Thessalonians for St. Paul’s delay in returning to them, so Silas may have