βασιλεία Θεοῦ occurs (it is not found at all in 2 Corinthians).
Ver. 26. If we read διότι, critical note, we have a word which is not used by the other Evangelists, but three times in Luke’s Gospel and five times in Acts; in each passage in Acts it is referred to Paul, xiii. 35, xviii. 10 (2), xx. 26, xxii. 18, and it occurs nine or ten times in Paul’s Epistles. On account of the Apostle’s approaching departure, such a reckoning is demanded. — μαρτύρομαι: only in Luke and Paul, and in both cases in Acts referred to Paul, here and in xxvi. 22, Gal. v. 3, Ephes. iv. 17, 1 Thess. ii. 12, ‘‘I protest,” properly ‘I call to witness,” but never = μαρτυρῶ in classical Greek; in Judith vii. 28 we have the fuller construction, of which this use of the dative here is a remnant, Lightfoot, Gal., ν., 3. The verb occurs once more in 1 Mace. ii. 56 S (but AR, al.).—év τῇ σήμερον ἡμερᾷ: Attic, τήµερον, {.ε., ἡμ. with pronom. prefix (cf. Matt. xxviii. 15 but ἡμέρας [W. H.}), the very day of my departure; the exact phrase occurs twice elsewhere, but both times in Paul’s writings, 2 Cor. iii, 14, W. H., Rom. xi. 8 (quotation) ; ‘‘Hoc magnam declarandi vim habet,” Bengel. Several times in LXX, cf. Jos., Ant., xiii., 2, 3, found frequently in classical Greek.—xa@apds ἀπὸ, cf. xvii. 6, where a similar phrase is used by St. Paul; the adjective is found seven times in St. Paul’s Epistles, but only here and in xvii. 6 in Luke’s writ- ings. In LXX, ef. Job xiv. 4, Prov. xx. Ο, Tobit iii. 14, Susannah, ver. 46; in Psalms of Solomon, xvii. 41, and, for the thought, Ezek. iii. 18-20. In classics for the most part with genitive, but in later Greek with ἀπό, see however Blass, Gram., p. 104, and instances from Demos- thenes; and Deissmann for instances from papyri, Neue Bibelstudien, pp. 24, 48; Ramsay, ‘‘ Greek of the Early Church,” etc.; Expository Times, De- cember, 1898, p. 108 Only a Paul
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