was not speaking about the doctrine, A.V., his words were the doctrine (Lum- by). Felten regards the question as courteously put, and sees in it a decisive proot that Paul was not put upon his trial, since a man could not be tried on a charge of which his accusers had no knowledge. But this would not prevent a preliminary inquiry of some kind be- fore the court, prompted by dislike or suspicion.
Ver. 20. ᾖΚξενίζοντα: rather perhaps startling or bewildering than strange— so too in Polyb., cf. 1 Peter iv. 12, but see Grimm-Thayer, sub v. Ramsay renders “‘ some things of foreign fashion” as if the words were connected with the opinion that the Apostle was an an- nouncer of foreign gods, cf. also 2 Macc. ix. 6, Diod. Sic., xii., 53.—rwa: the rhetorical use of the indefinite tis here strengthening the participle, cf. viii. 9, ν. 6, Heb. x. 27.--εἶσφ. . . . ἀκοὰς: Blass suggests a Hebraism, but on the life of Greeks we must look no further than the parallel which the same writer adduces, Soph., Ajax, 147, cf. also Wet- stein. The verb is only used here in this sense in Ν.Τ.-- τί ἂν θέλοι, see critical note and Simcox, Language of the N. T., p. 412: “de rebus in aliquem exitum tendentibus,”’ Grimm ; ¢f. ii. 12; so Bethge.
Ver. 21. “AOnv. δὲ πάντες: “now all Athenians,” without any article, a characteristic of the whole people, cf. xxvii. 4, but see Ramsay, Expositor, October, 1895, p. 274, and Blass, Gram., p. 157.—émSypotvres: ‘ sojourning there,” R.V., A.V. takes no notice of the word = resident strangers: ‘‘ unde iidem mores,’ Bengel; on the population of Athens see F. Ο. Conybeare, ‘‘ Athens,” Hastings’ B.D.; Renan, Saint Paul, pp. 183, 185, 187.—evxaipovy : “ had leisure for nothing else,” R.V. margin, cf. Mark vi. 21 (only elsewhere in N.T. in 1 Cor. xvi. 12), used by Polyb., Rutherford, New Phrynichus, Ῥ. 205. How fatally the more important
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