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1 παρ᾽ αυτοις om. SAB 36, 40, Vulg., Syr. H. text, Aeth., so Tisch., W.H., R.V.,. Weiss, Wendt, Blass,
2 After ειπων SABE 13, 15, 105, 180, Vulg. (exc. demid.), Sah., Boh., Arm., Aethro. om. Se... « lepoo., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt; retained by T.R., so- Meyer, after (D)HLP 36, 40, Syrr., demid., Chrys., Oec., ΤΗΙ., Gig., Wer.; D has την εορτην ηµεραν, Omitting the second την. Blass, p. xx., thinks D here affected by the corresponding Latin, ‘‘sollemnem diem advenientem”’. The reading may have arisen from a desire to give a reason for St. Paul’s urgency in making a brief journey to Jerusalem, a journey to which the avaBas of ver. 22 was regarded as referring (cf. xx. 16). But whether we follow the Bezan text or not, Ramsay holds that the shorter reading of the great MSS. still implies a hurried visit to Jerusalem, which could only be for some great occasion—the Feast of the Passover close at hand (so Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 263). Possibly the performance of his vow may have occasioned this urgent desire (Belser). But in xix. 1 D has a further expansion of the text, and speaks of a purposed but unaccomplished journey of St. Paul to Jerusalem, so that we cannot find in xviii. 22 an intimation of the accomplishment of this journey (cf. Corssen, G.G.A., p. 440, 1896; Hilgenfeld, Zw. Th., 1896, p. 82), and avaBas, xviii. 22, does not refer to a journey to Jerusalem at all on this view. But the reference of β in xix. 1 to the proposed journey in xviii. 21 has been doubted: Paul may have visited Jeru- salem, xviii. 22, then travelled through Galatia and Phrygia, ver. 23, and have formed anew an intention to pay another visit to Jerusalem (so Belser, strongly against Blass, Beitrage, p. 97, and also Die Selbstvertheidigung des heiligen Paulus, p. 140 ff., App. I.; the visit in xviii. 22 having been already accomplished for the performance of his vow). But if xix. 1 does refer back to the journey of xviii. 21, Wendt maintains. that the original occasion for the addition in that verse may still have been the fact that avaBas was understood of a journey to Jerusalem. For the two additions may proceed from different hands; that in xviii. 2t has much better attestation than that in xix. 1, and may owe its origin to the correct reference of avaBas in ver. 22 toa journey to Jerusalem; whilst the later addition in xix. 1 may have been occasioned by that of xviii. 21, because the reference in ver, 22 to a journey to Jerusalem was no longer recognised (Wendt, 1899, note, p. 306); see further on xix. 1.
especially after xvi. 13. It seems most probable that St. Luke uses the words in an anticipatory way, and passes on to the doings of the chief figure, Paul. In spite of all that he had suiered at the hands of his countrymen, St. Paul is still an Israelite, yearning for the hope of Israel, and desirous that others should participate in his hope, see critical note on B and Wendt (18990), note, p. 305.— διελέχθη: aorist, not imperfect as in ver. 4; ‘delivered a discourse to the Jews,” so Ramsay, in contrast to the continued stay at Corinth marked by the imper ect ; so Alford.
Ver. 20, ἐπένευσεν: only here in Ν.Τ., but cf. 2 Macc. iv. το, xi. 15, xiv. 20, frequent in classical Greek. St. Paul must have had some very pressing reason for refusing such an invitation from his Own countrymen,
Ver. 21. See critical note. The Feast, as Ramsay maintains, St. Paul, p. 264