419 ἑτέρων } ἐπι{ητεῖτε, ἐν τῇ ἐννόμῳ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐπιλυθήσεται. 40. καὶ γὰρ κινδυνεύοµεν 3 ἐγκαλεῖσθαι στάσεως περὶ τῆς σήµερον, μηδενὸς αἰτίου ὑπάρχοντος περὶ οὗ δυνησόµεθα ἀποδοῦναι λόγον τῆς συσ-
τροφῆς ταύτης. 41. Καὶ ταῦτα εἰπὼν ἀπέλυσε τὴν ἐκκλησίαν.
1 περι ετερων, SO ΒΝΑΡΗΙ.Β, so Tisch., R.V., Hilg., but B (d Gig., Vulg.), so Lach., W.H., Blass, Weiss, Wendt have περαιτερω, see further Harris, Four Lec-
tures, Ῥ. 29, On Ephrem’s text. The περι ετερων is the correction of a word not found elsewhere in N.T. (so Wendt, p. 320 (1899)). E has περ ετερον.
> D has onpepov εγκαλεισθαι στασεως, argui seditionis hodierne, Vulg., accusari quasi seditiosi hodie, Gig., but these look like paraphrases. περι ov ov in W.H. and R.V. is supported by NBHLP, Syrr., P.H., Arm., Chrys.; and after λογον the addition of περι is supported by SBE, Arm., so Tiscu., W.H., R.V., Weiss,
Wendt.
DE omit negative ov, and περι after λογον is omitted by D*HLP d,
so T.R. (Meyer and Lach.), Hilg. and Blass in both texts; see Wendt (1899), note
δν Szr.
αιτιοι υπαρχοντες instead of αιτιου υΌπα
so Blass in β.
meetings. But on the other hand Blass quotes the phrase given above from the inscriptions, and _ explains ἔννομοι ἐκκλησίαι sunt, que ex lege certis diebus fiebant (so too Wendt, Light- foot) ; and if this is correct, ‘‘ regular ’’ would be the more appropriate rendering, ἔννομος = νόµιµος. But in Ephesus we have to consider how far the old Greek assembly ἐκκλησία was or was not under the control of the imperial government. In considering this with reference to the special incident before us, Ramsay, with whom Wendt agrees, Ῥ. 321 (1899), gives good reason for regarding the “regular”? as equivalent to the “ law- ful’”’ assemblies: i.e., extraordinary as- semblies which in the Greek period had been legal, but were now so no longer through the jealous desire of Rome to control popular assemblies, abroad as at home. The ἐκκλησία could not be summoned without the leave of the Roman officials, and it was not at all likely that that sanction would be ex- tended beyond a certain fixed and regular number, Ramsay, Expositor, February,
1896: ‘‘The Lawful Assembly,’ and “Ephesus,” Hastings’ B.D., p. 723. Ver. 40. ἐγκαλεῖσθαι στάσεως περὶ
τῆς σήµερον, A.V., “ to be called in ques- tion for this day’s uproar,” but R.V., ‘to be accused concerning this day’s riot,” rendering ἐγκαλ., as in ver. 38, and στάσεως, as in Mark xv. 7. θόρυβος being rather the word for uproar or tumult, cf. Vulgate: ‘“argui seditionis hodierne”. But a further question arises from the marginal rendering of R.V., το be accused of riot concerning this day”: so Page, Meyer-Wendt, Zéck-
W.H., see 4ΛΡ., p. 97, thinks some primitive error probable, perhaps Ρχοντος. D has οντος instead of υπαρ.,
ler. But Blass, Weiss, Rendall, so Ram- say: "(ο be accused of riot concerning this day’s assembly,” sc., ἐκκλησία, al- though Blass thinks it still better to omit περὶ τῆς altogether, and to connect σήμερον with ἐγκαλ., cf. iv. 9.---μηδενὸς αἰτίου ὑπάρχοντος: with this punctuation R.V. renders ‘‘there being no cause for it,” taking αἰτίου as neuter, and closely connecting the phrase with the foregoing, so W.H. Overbeck (so Felten, Rendall) takes αἰτίου as masculine: “ there being no man guilty by reason of whom,” etc., and Wendt considers that the rendering cannot be altogether excluded. Vulgate has ‘“‘cum nullus obnoxius sit”. But αἰτίου may be strictly a noun neuter from αἴτιον Ξ αἰτία, and not an ad- jective as the last-mentioned rendering demands, cf. Plummer on Luke xxiii. 4, 14, 22, and nowhere else in N.T., so Moulton and Geden, who give the ad- jective αἴτιος only in Heb. v. ο.-- περὶ οὗ δννησόµεθα: Ramsay (so Meyer and Zockler) follows Τ.Ε. and Bezan text in omitting the negative ov before δυν., but see on the other hand Wendt (1899), p. 322; andcritical note. R.V. (introducing negative οὐ, so Weiss and Wendt) ren- ders ‘‘and as touching it we shall not be able to give account of this concourse”’. --συστροφῆς, Polyb., iv., 34, 6, of a seditious meeting or mob. In xxiii, τὸ used of a conspiracy; cf. LXX, Ps. Ixtii. 2, Amos vii. το.