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Tupdwvou! tivds. 10. τοῦτο δὲ ἐγένετο ἐπὶ ἔτη δύο, ὥστε πάντας
τοὺς κατοικοῦντας τὴν ᾿Ασίαν ἀκοῦσαι τὸν λόγον τοῦ Κυρίου 2 ᾿Ιησοῦ,
᾿Ιουδαίους τε καὶ “EAAnvas. IT. Δυνάμεις τε οὐ τὰς τυχούσας
ἐποίει ὁ Θεὸς διὰ τῶν χειρῶν Παύλου, 12. ὥστε καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀσθενοῦντας ὃ ἐπιφέρεσθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ χρωτὸς αὐτοῦ σουδάρια ἢ σιµι- κίνθια, καὶ ἀπαλλάσσεσθαι ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν τὰς νόσους, τά τε πνεύματα
1 τινος om. SAB 13, 27, 29, 81, Sah., Boh., Syr. Pesh., Vulg. fu.-tol., Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt. After T. D, Gig., Wer., Syr. H. mg. add απο ωρας πεµπτης εως δεκατης. The addition is accepted by Blass, Belser, Nestle, Zéckler as original, whilst even Wendt sees in it a passage in which D has retained some elements of the original text otherwise lost, p. 313 (1899), and Weiss, Codex D, p. ττο, thinks that it may have been added according to an old oral tradition, cf. xii. το. Ram- say, C. R. Ε., p. 152, and St. Paul, p. 271, maintains that the tradition is probably true, and he gives proofs from Martial, ix., 68, xii., 57, and Juv., vii., 222-6, that the schools opened at daybreak; so that by eleven o’clock the scholars would be
dismissed, and Paul could use the school. 2 Ingov after K. om. ΜΑΒΡΕ, Vulg. Syrr: P.H., Boh., Sah., Arm., Aeth., Tisch.,
W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt.
δεπιφ., but αποφ. HABE 13, 36, 40, Vulg., Arm., Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss,
Wendt. Blass in β has emo.
in loco, cf. Latin, auditorium, Zoéckler compares St. Augustine’s lecture-hall in Rome before his conversion.
Ver. 10. ἐπὶ ἔτη δύο: exclusive of the quarter of a year in ver. 8 and in xx. 31 the Apostle speaks of three years’ residence in Ephesus, “in the usual ancient style of reckoning an intermediate period by the superior round number,” Turner, ‘‘Chron. of N. T.,’’ Hastings’ B. D., see also Page and Wendt, in loco. --πάντας: not only the position of Ephesus, but the fact that it was just the place which would be frequented for its famous temple and festivals by crowds of strangers, both Jew and Greek, from all parts of proconsular Asia, “‘ Ephesus,” Hastings’ B. D.,i., 720. Nor must we suppose that St. Paul and his fellow- workers confined themselves literally to Ephesus. The seven Churches of Asia may reasonably be referred for their foun- dation to this period—all of which were centres of trade, and all within reach of Ephesus. Timothy, moreover, may well have been working at Colosse, since in the Epistle to the Colossians he is men- tioned with Paul in the inscription of the letter, although the latter had not been personally known to the Churches of Colosse and Laodicea, Ramsay, ‘Co- lossz,”’ Hastings’ B.D., and St. Paul, Ρ. 274.—EAAnvas: comprising no doubt Hellenists and Greeks, cf. xi. 20.
Ver. It. οὐ τὰς τυχ., Cf. xxvill. 2, the phrase is peculiag to St. Luke, “not the
ordinary,” {.6., extra-ordinary, with which the deeds of the Jewish exorcists could not be compared, see Klostermann, Vin- dici@ Lucan@, p. 52, for the same phrase cf. 3 Macc. iii. 7, and also Deissmann, Neue Bibelstudien, p. 83; so too in classical ἄτεεῖς.---ἐποίει: ‘continued to work,”’ or ex more, Blass.
Ver. 12. ὥστε καὶ: so that even to the sick, z.¢., to those who could not be reached by the hands of the Apostle.— χρωτὸς: the σουδ. and σιµικ. had been in contact with the body of the Apostle, and thence derived their healing power;
so in LXX used for both Wa, and Vv
ee (twice), see Hatch and Redpath; Zahn, Einleitung, ii., 435, sees in its use here the use of a medical term, so Hobart, p. 242.— σουδάρια: Latin, sudaria, used for wiping off sweat, as the noun indicates, cf. Luke xix. 20, John xix. 44, xx. 7.--σιμικίνθια : Latin, semicinctium, only here in N.T., aprons worn by artisans at their work, cf. Martial, xiv., 153. Oecumenius and Theophylact apparently regarded the word as simply = handkerchiefs, but the meaning given is far more likely both from the etymology of the word and its use in Martial. For other Latinisms see Blass, in loco, and Wetstein.—amak. ἀπ᾿ αὐτῶν, cf. Luke xii. 58, Heb. ii. 15, here in connection with sickness, and this use is very frequent in medical writers, Ho- bart, p. 47; the word is found with ἀπὸ both in classical writers and in the LXX.