ἀπὸ τῆς Μακεδονίας ὅ τε Σίλας καὶ ὁ Τιμόθεος, συνείχετο τῷ πνεύµατι | ὁ Παῦλος, διαμαρτυρόμενος τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις τὸν Χριστὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν. 6.3 ἀντιτασσομένων δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ βλασφημούντων, ἐκτιναξάμενος τὰ ἱμάτια, εἶπε πρὸς αὐτούς, Τὸ αἷμα ὑμῶν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑμῶν:
1 Instead of πνευματι SABDE 13, 40, verss., Bas., Theodt., Tisch., W.H., Weiss, Blass, Wendt, R.V. read λογῳ. Blass reads συνειχε in B. After Ιουδ. ABD 1:3, 36, Vulg., verss., Bas. insert ειναι, so Tisch,, W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt.
2D, Syr. Harcl. mg., Flor. prefix πολλου Se λογου yevopevou και γραφων διερ- µηνευοµενων. Flor. continues (so Blass in β) αντετασσοντο ἰουδαιοι τινες καὶ εβλασφημουν, see especially Corssen, G. G. A., p. 431. For πορευσοµαι D'H'L, Flor. πορευοµαι. For απο τον νυν D!, not D?, reads ad’ νµων νυν, “nunc vado ad (gentes) ab vobis,” Flor. ; Blass rejects in β.; Hilg. retains.
ver. 6. McGiffert considers that this notice of work in the synagogue is un- trustworthy (p. 268) and at variance with the fact that in St. Paul’s own Epistles there is no hint of it, but cf. τ Cor. ix, 20, words which we may reasonably suppose had a special application to Corinth, or the Apostle would scarcely have so ex- oressed himself. It would have been strange if in such a commercial centre there had been no Jewish synagogue. Ver. 5. See note on xvii. 15 ; McGiffert, Apostolic Age, p. 269, recognises this among the striking points of contact between Acts and the Epistles to the Corinthians. Here Silas and Timothy are said to have been with St. Paul in Corinth, cf. St. Paul’s own statement in 2 Cor. i. 19, to the fact that the same two names occur in the salutations of τ and 2 Thess., both of which were written from Corinth, see also Paley, Hore Paulina, iv., 6, 7, and viii. 4.— συνείχετο τῷ πνεύµατι: ‘he was wholly absorbed in preaching,” λόγῳ, so Ram- say; ‘‘in teaching the word,” Grimm- Thayer, cf. Wisdom xvii. 11 (cf. 2 Cor. y. 14). The verb occurs frequently in Luke, six times in his Gospel, three times in Acts, twice in St. Paul, only once else- where in N.T., but nowhere as in the particular phrase here. It looks as if St. Paul’s preaching in Corinth was specially characterised by ‘‘ greater concentration of purpose and simplicity of method,” οὐ 1 Cor. ii. 2. The philosophic style in which he had addressed the Athenians is now abandoned, and so too, at least primarily, the proclamation of the living and true God, and of the coming of His Son to save His people in the day ot wrath, with which apparently he had commenced at Thessalonica, 1 Thess. 1. g, το. Such methods and truths had their place, but in Corinth “' Jesus Christ _and Him crucified’? was to be preached
as the power of God and the wisdom of God, and in both his Epistles all that the Apostle says about the duties of the Christian life is brought into relation with this fundamental truth(see McGiffert, u. δ., Ῥ. 266). Silas and Timothy found him wholly possessed by and engrossed in the word {so the imperfect, Page, Al- ford, Wendt). On the other hand it has been maintained that the arrival of Silas and Timothy brought St. Paul help from Macedonia, and that on the account, Phil. iv. 15, 2 Cor. xi. 9, he was able to give himself up to preaching, as he was thus relieved from the strain of working for his bread (so Wordsworth, Lewin, Rendall). But 1 Cor, ix. 1 seems to imply that St. Paul still continued to work for his livelihood at Corinth. Blass seems to find in the uniqueness of the phrase a reason for its alteration; see critical note for his view. Plumptre refers the words to the Apostle’s desire to see Rome, which the Apostle cherished for many years, and which had been further kindled by finding himself in company with those who came from Rome; and the announcement of a journey to Rome, ΧΙΧ. 21, after the Apostie had been some time in the company of Aquila and Pris- cilia both at Corinth and Ephesus, is emphasised by Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 255. But on the whole, Ramsay’s interpre- tation is very striking, p. 252, cf. the remarks of McGiffert much to the same effect, Apostolic Age, pp. 263- 266.—€vapapt., see above on p. 92.— τὸν Χ. Ἰ.: ‘that the Anointed One is Jesus,” cf. xvii. 3, so Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 226. So far the message was evidently for cae See critical note for reading in