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- a , ἕως ᾿Αθηνῶν }: καὶ λαβόντες ἐντολὴν πρὸς τὸν Σίλαν καὶ Τιμόθεον, < , > > , 3 ΄ ἵνα ὡς τάχιστα ἔλθωσι πρὸς αὐτόν, ἐξῄεσαν. 16. Ἐν δὲ ταῖς ᾿Αθήναις ἐκδεχομένου αὐτοὺς τοῦ Παύλου, παρ- , Q A > re} ο θ A 2 id > 9 ωξύνετο τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ θεωροῦντι κατείδωλον οὖσαν τὴν
πόλιν. 17. διελέγετο μὲν οὖν ἐν τῇ συναγωγῇ τοῖς Ιουδαίοις καὶ
τοῖς σεβοµένοις, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ κατὰ πᾶσαν ἡμέραν πρὸς τοὺς
1 καθιστανοντες in AB 25, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt; D καταστανοντες, so Hilg. Blass in B follows reading in T.R. After Αθηνων D adds παρηλθεν δε την Oecooartav: εκωλυθη yap εις αυτους κηρνξαι τον Aoyoy, so Blass in B, and Hilg.; cf. also Ephraem (Harris, Four Lectures, etc., pp. 28, 47, 83). Ramsay, C. R. E., p. 160, thinks that the reviser did not observe that Paul probably sailed direct from the coast of Macedonia to Athens; in other words, he mis- took a sea voyage for a journey by land. But Harris, uw. s., p. 83, holds that Ramsay may be incorrect in this, and that the reviser meant to imply that St. Paul went to Athens by sea, but that he did not go through Thessaly, but coasted by it. It is also possible that παρηλθεν may mean “neglected’’ Thessaly in the sense that he did not preach to them, and in this sense Harris, p. 84, believes that Blass would find it possible to defend the Lucanity ofthe gloss ; see also Wendt (1899), p. 288, note.
2 @ewpovyros, instead of dat. as in T.R., NABE 40, 61, 180, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt; D has the dat., so Blass in B, and Hilg., which seems conformity
to αυτφ.
been sent to Philippi, with which St. Paul was frequently in communication at this time, Phil. iv. 15. But after their return to Corinth from their mission, they found that St. Paul had already gone on to Corinth, and there they re- joined him, See on the whole subject, Ramsay, St. Paul, pp. 233, 240, as against McGiffert; Wendt (1899) and Felten, in Ίοεο; Paley, Hore Paulina, ix., 4.
Ver. 16. ἐκδεχομένου, cf. 1 Cor. xi. 33, xvi. II, rare in classical Greek in this sense.—trapwiivero : “' was provoked,” R.V., only found elsewhere in N.T. in St. Paul’s own description of ἀγάπη, 1
- Cor. xiii. 5, and cf. xv. 39 (see note) and Heb. x. 24 for the cognate noun, see on the latter, Westcott, 12 loco. In LXX both verb and noun are used for burning with anger, or for violent anger, passion, Hos. viii. 5, Zech. x. 3, Deut. xxix. 28, Jer. xxxix. (xxxii.) 37; cf. Dem., 514, 1Ο; ὠργίσθη καὶ παρωξύνθη (Meyer-Wendbt). ---τὸ πνεῦμα: expression principally used in Paul, cf. 1 Cor. ii. 11, Rom. i. 9, viii. 16, etc. Blass calls it pertphrasis hebraica, and cf. Luke i. 47.---θεωροῦν- τες: “beheld,” R.V., as of contempla- tion in thought, Latin, contemplari.— κατείδωλον: ‘full of idols,” R.V.—the rendering ‘ wholly given to idolatry” was not true, 7.e., idolatry in the sense of worshipping the innumerable idols. If the city had been sincerely devoted to idol worship St. Paul might have had more to appeal to, ‘‘verum monumenta
pietatis reperiebat Paulus, non ipsam, que dudum evanuerat,” Blass. A.V. follows Vulgate, ‘‘idololatrie deditum”’. The adjective is found only here, but it is formed after the analogy of κατάδεν- Spos, κατάµπελος, so Hermann, ad Vig., Ρ. 638 (1824), ‘‘ κατείδωλος πόλις non est, uti quidam opinantur, simulacris dedita urbs, sed simulacris referta”. No word could have been more fitly chosen to describe the aspect of Athens to St. Paul as he wandered through it, a city which had been described as ὅλη βωμός, ὅλη θῦμα θεοῖς καὶ ἀνάθημα, see below on νετ. 17. Before he actually entered the city, as he walked along the Hamaxitos road, St. Paul would have seen altars raised at intervals to the unknown gods, as both Pausanias and Philostratus testify, see ‘‘ Athens,” F. C. Conybeare, in Hast- ings’ B.D. ‘ He took these incomparable figures for idols,” writes Renan (Saint Paul, p. 172) as he describes the beauti- ful sculptured forms upon which the eyes of the Apostle would be fixed, but the man who could write Rom. i. must have been keenly alive to the dangers which followed upon ‘the healthy sensualism of the Greeks”.