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‘QE δὲ ἐγένετο ἀναχθῆναι ἡμᾶς 1 ἀποσπασθέντας ἀπ᾿
αὐτῶν, εὐθυδρομήσαντες ἤλθομεν εἰς τὴν Κῶν, τῇ δὲ ἑξῆς εἰς τὴν
1 W.H. in marg., following BE*L, read αποσπασθεντες, placing a comma after ημας ; Weiss here is uninfluenced by B, and reads as in text. Κων, but Κω ΝΑΒΟΡΕ,
Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss.
At beginning of sentence B text αποσπασθεντων
δε ημων απ᾿ αντων επιβαντες ανηχθηµεν; Di has και επιβαντες ανηχθηµεν αποσ-
πασθεντων δε ηµων am’ αντων.
Either from next verse, or from the usual desire of
reviser to take nothing for granted (Weiss).
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times on the lips of our Lord, bids us aim at something altogether higher and deeper and fuller than happiness—blessed- ness. In Judaism, whilst compassion for the poor and distressed is characteristic of a righteous Israelite, we must still bear in mind that such compassion was limited by legality and nationality ; the universality of the Christian precept is wanting, Uhlhorn, Christian Charity, pp. 1-56, E.T., instances in Wetstein, and Bethge and Page, in loco.
Ver.36. θεὶς τὰ -yév.,seeabove on p. 203.
Ver. 37. ixavds, cf. viii. 13.—ém- πεσόντες: an exact parallel only in Luke xv. 22 (cf. also κατεφίλησεν in same verse), cf. above on ἐπιπίπτειν and in LXX, Gen. xxxiii. 4, xlv. 14, xlvi. 29, Tobit xi. 8, 3 Macc. v. 40.--κατε- Φίλουν, imperfect, t.e., repeatedly and tenderly. The verb occurs three times in St. Luke’s Gospel, vii. 38, 45, xv. 20, and once in Matthew and Mark of the kiss of Judas, cf. Xen., Mem., ii., 6, 33.
Ver. 38. ὀδυνώμενοι: common in Luke and Acts, only three times elsewhere in N.T., Luke ii. 48, xvi. 24, 25.—Oewpeiv, Lucan, cf. xvii. 16, 22, ‘to behold,” R.V., to gaze with reverence upon his face.— µέλλουσι, see above p. 157.--προέπεµπον δὲ αὐτὸν: ‘and they brought him on his way,” R.V., ef. xv. 3 (see note), xxi. 5; the harbour was some little distance from the town.
CHAPTER XXI.—Ver. 1. ἀναχθῆναι, see above on xiii. 13.---ποσ., cf. xx. 30, “‘were parted from them,” R.V. The word expresses a separation difficult and painful ; it adds to the pathos of the scene, and marks the close affection which could not bear the thought of a parting, ‘divulsi ab eorum complexu,” Blass (see Chrys., comment. tn loco). ---εὖθνδ., see on xvi. 11.—Kéyv, Stanchio or Stanko, an island of great trading importance off the coast of Caria, south of Miletus and Samos, and north of Rhodes. Historically it had several points of con- nection with the Jews, cf. 1 Macc. xv. 23, Ίος, 444. xiv., 7, 2; anid 10, το Β. F., te, 21, 11, and owing to its commerce it
became one of the centres of Jewish life in the #gean. It lay about forty nauti- cal miles from Miletus, and it was famous as the birthplace not only of Hippo- crates, but of Apelles, and as being one of the great medical schools of the ancient world. See further ‘‘Cos” (Ramsay), Hastings’ B.D., and B.D.?; Farrar, Saint Paul, ii., 284; Lewin, St. Paul, ii., 96; cf. Strabo, xiv., 2, Hor., Od., iv., 13, 13, Tac., Ann., xii.,61. C. and H. think that the chief town of the same name at the east of the island is referred to in the narrative beforeus. The place must have had, as C. and H. note, a special interest for St. Luke. —‘Pé8ov: off the south coast of Caria. According to the pro- verb the sun shone every day on Rhodes, and it might well be called the sunny island of roses. Her coins, stamped on one side with Apollo’s head radiated, and on the other with the rose-flower, bear their witness to the brightness and fertility of the island. Moreover, it was a seat not only of commerce but of learning. St. Paul does not appear to have landed, but only to have touched at the island, The great Colossus repre- senting the sun, counted as one of the wonders of the world, lay prostrate, having been broken down by an earth- quake, Pliny, N. H., xxxiv., 18; Strabo, xiv., 2. Inthe time of the Peloponnesian War Rhodes had been famous for its strong navy, as its timber was abundant. A notice of Jewish residents in Rhodes meets us in 1 Macc. xv. 23. On subse- quent history see the excellent account in C, and H., small edit., p. 357; Farrar, Saint Paul, ii., p. 255.--Πάταρα: a sea- port on the Lycian coast, now in ruins, but probably a place of some importance and splendour. C. and H. say that Patara was to the city Xanthus what the Pirzus was to Athens. On the modern discoveries in Patara see C. and H., small edit., note p. 560, cf. Herod., i., 182, Hor., Od., iii., 4, 64, Lewin, St. Paul, Π., 99, O. Holtzmann, Neutest. Zeit- geschichte, p.101. ‘‘The voyage may be taken as typical of the course which hun-