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τὴν χεῖρα, ἤθελεν ἀπολογεῖσθαι τῷ δήµφῳ. «34. ἐπιγνόντων } δὲ ὅτι ᾿Ιουδαῖός ἐστι, φωνὴ ἐγένετο µία ἐκ πάντων, ὡς ἐπὶ ὥρας δύο κραζόν- των, Μεγάλη ἡ Άρτεμις ᾿Εφεσίων. 35. Καταστείλας δὲ ὁ γραμματεύς τὸν ὄχλον, φησίν, "Ανδρες ᾿Εφέσιοι, τίς γάρ ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος ὃς οὐ γινώσκει τὴν ᾿Εφεσίων πόλιν νεωκόρον οὖσαν τῆς µεγάλης2 θεᾶς
1 Instead of επιγνοντων, ΝΔΑΒΡΕΗΙ.Ρ, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Blass, Hilg. read επιγνοντες, and instead of κραζοντων (Hilg.), BDEHLP, which Lach., W.H., Blass retain in, Tisch., Weiss, Wendt read κραζοντες, following ΝΑ.
2 Peas om. NABDE, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Blass, Hilg.
This latter view seems to be adopted practically by Blass (so by Knabenbauer), although he reads κατεβίβασαν (Luke x. 15), descendere coegerunt, {.ε., into the theatre, as he cannot see that συνεβίβ. is intelligible; in which Grimm-Thayer agrees with him, and renders with R.V., margin, as above (see sub v.).—6 δὲ 'Α.: if 6 χαλκεύς in 2 Tim. iv. 14 is taken in a wider sense to mean a worker in any metal, it is, of course, possible that Alex- ander might be so described as one of the craftsmen of Demetrius. But the name was very common, although the omission of τις may be taken to imply that Alex- ander in ver. 33 was well known in Ephesus (cf. νετ. 9 above). We cannot pass beyond conjecture, especially as the notice in Acts, when compared with 2 Tim., contains no further mark of identi- fication than the similarity of name, although the Alexander in the latter passage was no doubt in some way con- nected with Ephesus, or the warning to Timothy against him would be without force. Against the identification see Meyer-Weiss, Die Briefe Pauli an Timo- theus und Titus, p. 347, and so also Holtz- mann, Pastoralbriefe, in loco (who identi- fies the Alexander in 2 Tim. iv. 14 with the Alexander in 1 Tim. i. 20). Holtz- mann’s view is that the author of the Pastoral Epistles, whoever he may have been, mistook the notice in Acts, and concluded that the Alexander there men- tioned was a Christian, and a treacherous one, who allowed himself to be utilised by the Jews against Paul. The pseu- donymous author of 2 Tim. therefore names Alexander χαλκεύς, and refers also to him the βλασφημεῖν of x Tim. i. 20.--κατασείσας τὴν χεῖρα, see on xii. 17.---ἀπολ.: peculiar to Luke and Paul, twice in St. Luke’s Gospel, and six times in Acts, so in Rom. ii. 15, 2 Cor. xii. 19. In the last-named passage with same construction as here (see for various con- structions Grimm-Thayer, su v.).
Ver. 34. ἐπιγνόντων: “when they recognised ” by his dress and his features, “when they perceived,” R.V. If we read ἐπιγνόντες, see critical note, φωνὴ ἐγέν. = “‘anacoluthon luculentissimum ” cf. Mark ix. 20 (Blass).—ple ἐκ πάντων: callida junctura, arresting the reader’s attention (Hackett). Alexander was thus unable to obtain a hearing because he was a Jew, a fact which sufficiently jus- tifies the apprehension for Paulentertained by his friends.—MeydAn κ.τ.λ., see on νετ. 28, the cry in B, and β text is doubled, which marks its continuance and its emphatic utterance (Weiss).—as ἐπὶ ὥρας δύο κραζ.: probably they regarded this as in itself an act of worship, cf. 1 Kings xviii. 26, and Ramsay, Church in the Roman Empire, p. 142, '' Diana,” Hastings’ B.D., p. 605. ‘A childish understanding indeed! as if they were afraid lest their worship should be ex- tinguished, they shouted without inter- mission;” Chrys., Hom., xlii.
Ver. 35. καταστείλας: only here in N.T. and in ver. 36, ‘had quieted,” R.V., cf. 2 Mace. iv. 31, 3 Macc. vi. 1, Aquila, Ps. Ixiv. (Ixv.) 8, also in Josephus and Plutarch.—6 Ὑραμματεὺς: ‘‘the secretary of the city’ Ramsay; Light- foot was the first to point out the impor- tance of the officer so named—called also 6 Ἐφεσίων γραμ. or ypap. τοῦ δήµον; he was the most influential person in Ephesus, for not only were the decrees to be proposed drafted by him and the Strategoi, and money left to the city was committed to his charge, but as the power of the Ecclesia, the public assembly, declined under im- perial rule, the importance of the secre- tary’s office was enhanced, because he was in closer touch with the court of the proconsul than the other city magistrates, and acted as a medium of communica- tion between the imperial and municipal government, ‘Ephesus’ (Ramsay), Hastings’ B.D., p. 723, Ctties and