432 24.) ἀλλ᾽ οὐδενὸς λόγον ποιοῦμαι, οὐδὲ έχω τὴν ψυχήν µου τιµίαν ἐμαυτῷ, ὡς τελειῶσαι τὸν Spdpov µου μετὰ χαρᾶς, καὶ τὴν διακονίαν ἣν ἔλαβον παρὰ τοῦ Κυρίου ᾿Ιησοῦ, διαμαρτύρασθαι τὸ εὐαγγέλιον
25. καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ οἶδα, ὅτι οὐκέτι ὄψεσθε
τὸ πρόσωπόν µου ὑμεῖς πάντες, ἐν οἷς διῆλθον κηρύσσων τὴν 2 βασιλ-
τῆς χάριτος τοῦ Θεοῦ.
1 Τ.Ε. is supported by EHLP; Lachmann’s reading, which is the same as Blass in β text, αλλ᾽ ονδενος λογον εχω ovde ποιουµαι την ψυχην τιµιαν ep. (= D, with add. of por after εχω and µου after ψυχην), is found in ΔΕΑ 13, 40, 43, 68, Vulg. But Κ.Υ. is supported by Tisch., W.H., Weiss, following $3*BCD?, so Sah., Boh., Syr. P., Arm., Gig., Lucif., Or. See also Field., Ot. Norv., iii., p. ὃς; Weiss, Codex D, Ῥ. 100. ws τελειωσαι, but W.H. (Weiss, Rendall) ws τελειωσω (-σαι W.H. mg.); see comment. Blass in a conjectures wore τελειωσαι; τε could easily drop out before the τελ. In β Blass reads τον τελειωσαι with D; ωστε E; ως το C. pera. χαρας om. SABD 13, 40, 81, Vulg., several verss., Tisch., Blass, W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt. After διαµαρτ. D, Sah., Gig., Lucif., Ephr. insert Ίουδαιοις re kar Ἐλλησι, see ver. 21.
2 After Bao. SABC 13 omit τον Θ., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt. D, Sah., Hilg. read του Inoov (Gig., Lucif. domini I.); Blass rejects—contrary to:
usage of Acts (Weiss).
one step enough for me,” so from step to step κατὰ πόλιν, on his journey, St. Paul was warned and guided, cf. xxi. 4, II.—kata πόλιν, Lucan-Pauline; κατά used several times by Luke, alone amongst the synoptists, in his Gospel and in the Acts with this distributive force in connection with πόλις; Luke viii. 1, 4, xili. 22, cf. xv. 21; in the text, as also in Titus i. 5; the only other passage in which the collocation occurs in N.T., the phrase is adopted by St. Paul.— Seopa καὶ θλίψεις: Seopa in St. Luke; Luke viii. 29, Acts xvi. 26, but it is noticeable that the two nouns are found together in Phil. i. 17, and in 2 Cor. i. 8. θλίψις is used of the affliction which befel the Apostle in Asia, including that of public danger, as well as illness and mental distress. On the variation be- tween masculine and neuter in δεσµός and in other nouns see Blass, Gram., p. 28.—pévove: only twice in N.T., with accusative of the person, here and in νετ. 5. 7
Ver. 24. See critical note. ‘‘But I hold not my life of any account, as dear unto myself,” R.V., reading λόγου for λόγον, omitting οὐδὲ ἔχω and pov. Both verbs ἔχω and ποιοῦμαι are found in similar phrases in LXX, Tobit vi. 16, Job xxii. 4, so also in classical Greek (Wetstein). The former verb is used in N.T. as =habere, @stimare, cf. Luke xiy. 18 and by St. Paul, Phil. ii. 29.— ὥς τελειῶσαι, see critical note. ‘‘So that I may accomplish my course,” R.V., ‘‘in comparison of accomplishing my course,” margin. Difficulty has arisen
because this is the only case in the N.T. in which ὡς appears in a final clause, Burton, p. 85 (but see W.H., Luke ix. 52, and Viteau, Le Grec du Ν. T., p. 74 (1893)). The whole phrase is strikingly Pauline, cf. Phil. iii. 12, where the same verb immediately seems to suggest the δρόμος (Alford), Gal. ii. 2, 1 Cor. ix. 24, 2 Tim. iv. 7.--μετὰ χαρᾶς, see critical note, cf. Phil. i. 4, Col. i. rr, Heb. x. 34. The words are strongly defended by Ewald.—rhv διακονίαν, see above on p. 422 “‘saepe apud Paulum,” cf. Rom. xi. 13. Apostleship is often so designated, Acts 1.27} ος xxi!) τοι (Cori τν, and other instances in Hort, Ecclesia, p. 204. ---διαµαρτ., cf. vi. 4, where the διακ. τοῦ λόγου is the highest function of the Apostles.