Ver. 6. ἄντιτασσ.: classical use, of an army ranged in hostile array, or of those opposed to each other in opinion, Thuc., iii., 83. Soin later Greek, in Polyb-
σ---δ.
καθαρὸς ἐγὼ ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν εἰς #4 ἔθνη πορεύσομαι.
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7. καὶ μεταβὰς
ἐκεῖθεν ἦλθεν εἰς οἰκίαν τινὸς ὀνόματι ἸΙούστου,! σεβοµένου τὸν Θεόν,
οὗ ἡ οἰκία ἦν συνομοροῦσα τῇ συναγωγῇ.
8.2 Κρίσπος δὲ ὁ ἀρχι-
[ ο , ~ a ‘ 8 συνάγωγος ἐπίστευσε τῷ Kupiw σὺν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ" καὶ πολλοὶ
1 B*D?2, Syr. H.; Tisch., W.H., Weiss, Wendt have Τιτιου |.
Arm. have Titov |., 5ο R.V.
SWE, Vulg., Boh.,
Instead of εκειθεν D* 137, Flor. read απο του Axvia, not Blass in B, but Hilg. ; see Corssen, wu.
δ., Ῥ. 428.
2 For doublets in D in this verse, so in Flor., Blass in B, see Harris, Four Lec-
tures, etc., p. 60.
generally to oppose, to resist. Ram- say renders ‘‘and when they began to form a faction against him,” but ¢f. Rom. xiii. 2, James iv. 6, v. 6, 1 Pet. v. 5, Prov. iii. 34.--βλασφ., cf. ΧΙ. 45, or it may be used generally as in xix. 9, and 2 Peter ii. 2.--ἐκτιναξ., cf. xiii. 51, note; cf. Matt. x. 14, and LXX, Neh. v. 13, ‘undoubtedly a very ex- asperating gesture,” Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 256; but we must remember that the opposition at Corinth seems to have been unusally great, as Ramsay himself points out, u. S., pp. 143, 256.- τὸ αἷμα ὑμῶν, cf. xx. 26, Hebraistic, cf., eg., Matt. xxvii. 25, and in LXX, Lev. xx. 16, 2 Sam. i. 16, 1 Kings ii. 37, Ezek. iii. 18, etc., {.ε., ἐλθέτω, Matt. xxiii. 35. Both here and in xx. 26 we can scarcely doubt that St. Paul had in mind the words of the prophet, Ezek. xxxiii. 6.---ἐπὶ τὴν κεφ., i.e., upon yourselves, the head being used for the person—for other ideas of the word see Wendt (1888), zx loco. De Wette interprets of moral ruin, and others of the eternal ἀπωλεία, but we cannot refine so much upon a figurative phrase. In vv. 5ὓ and 6 Spitta and Jiingst see the hand of a Reviser, the former holding that the whole passage tuns smoothly with these omissions, whilst Jiingst ascribes also the word ἐκεῖθεν, ver. 7, to the Reviser. According to Clemen, 4 and 58, the preaching in the synagogue belongs to Redactor Judaicus, the Jewish persecution in ver. 6 to the Redactor Antijudaicus. Hilgen- feld agrees with Spitta in so far that he ascribes 56 and 6b to “the author to Theophilusy’.—kxaSapos ἐγὼ: scarcely enough to say ‘‘I am pure,” have dis- charged my duty with a clear conscience, cf. xx. 26, the same idea here, better to punctuate at ἐγώ, but see Blass, in loco. ---ἁᾱπὸ τοῦ viv: from henceforth, i.e., so far as he is concerned. It is evident that the words did not apply to other places, for in xix. 8 St. Paul goes to the syna- gogue according to his wont. The phrase
is found five times in St. Luke’s Gospel, but only here in Acts. It is used once elsewhere in N.T, and there by St. Paul, 2 Cor. v. 16 (cf. John viii. 11). See Friedrich, p. 16, and Hawkins, Hore Synoptice, p. 29.
Ver. 7. petaBas ἐκεῖθεν, {.ε., from the synagogue, cf. Luke x. 7, “he re- moved,” Rendall; “Πε changed his place from the synagogue,” Ramsay: the verb is found three times with ἐκεῖθεν in St. Matthew, and in each place ‘‘ departed ” R.V., this gives perfectly good sense: cf. Ramsay, Church in the Roman Empire, p. 158, and critical note.—’lovorov: if the addition Τίτου or Τιτίου is correct, there is no need to discuss the possible identification with the companion of St. Paul in Gal. ii. 1, etc.; see Alford and Page, in loco, and critical note. The identification was adopted by Chrysos- tom and Grotius, and for a statement of the evidence on either side see Plumptre, in loco. It should be remembered that we have Barsabbas Justus, i. 23, and Jesus Justus, Col. iv. 11, see also Light- foot ‘‘Acts of the Apostles,” B.D.?, i., 32. The house of a proselyte may have been chosen because it offered easy access to those who wished to come, whether Greeks or Hebrews (see Chry- sostom’s comment), but in Paul’s thus going into the house of a proselyte hard by the synagogue we may see how his spirit had been stirred. But further: this Titus Justus was evidently a Roman citizen, one of the coloni in Corinth, and thus St. Paul would gain access through him to the more educated class in the city, Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 256, and “Corinth,” Hastings’ B.D., i. 480.—, συνομοροῦσα: there is no need to sup- pose that he left his lodgings with Aquila —this house became Paul’s place οἱ meeting (so in Ephesus, cf. xix. g, 10); he had his own synagogue there (Blass) ; in classics simple verb ὁμορέω, ὁμονρέω; compound only found here; συνόµορος, Eccl. writers.