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Ἱερουσαλήμ. 5. ὅτε δὲ ἐγένετο] ἡμᾶς ἐξαρτίσαι τὰς ἡμέρας, ἐξελ- θόντες ἐπορευόμεθα, προπεµπόντων ἡμᾶς πάντων σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ
τέκνοις ἕως ἔξω τῆς πόλεως, καὶ θέντες τὰ γόνατα ἐπὶ τὸν αἰγιαλὸν
προσηυξάµεθα.
6. καὶ” ἀσπασάμενοι ἀλλήλους, ἐπέβημεν eis τὸ
1 ημας εξαρτισαι SQ(*or)?, CHLP, so Tisch., W.H. marg.; but εξαρ. ημας AB*E
68, W.H. text, Weiss.
At beginning of verse, instead of οτε .
- Tas ηµερας ἆ, 5ο
Blass in β, has sequenti die—ry δε εξης ηµερφᾳ.
}προσευξαμενοι απησπασαµεθα in R.V., Tisch., W.H., Blass.
Instead of T.R.,
N*AC, Tisch. have ανεβηµεν, so Wendt (probably) ; but ΝΕΒΕ 68, 73, Chrys., so
Lach., W.H., R.V., Weiss ενεβηµεν.
ment and St. Paul’s assertion that he was proceeding to Jerusalem under the same divine guidance. That the prophets at Tyre should foresee the Apostle’s danger was only in accordance with his own words in xx. 23, and their affec- tionate regard for him might well prompt them to dissuade him from such perilous risks. There is therefore no occasion to suppose that the clause has been inter- polated into the “We” source. Hilgen- feld refers οἵτινες . . . ‘lep. (ver. 4), as also the whole of ver. 9, τούτῳ δὲ. . . προφ. to his ‘‘ author to Theophilus,” on the ground that this writer had already spoken of Paul’s tribulations as awaiting him in city by city, xx. 23, and that the notices in vv. 4 and g here are added by him in confirmation. But Hilgenfeld (with Clemen and Jingst) retains vv. 10-14, the episode of Agabus, as belong- ing to the ‘‘We” source, and sees a fitness in the prophecy of Agabus fore- telling, after the manner of the O.T. prophets, in the last station before Jeru- salem, the imprisonment of the Apostle, whilst Paul in spite of all entreaties is unmoved in his determination. But (1) it is quite arbitrary to refer the whole speech at Miletus (see above, chap. xx.) to the “author to Theophilus,” and (2) although it was quite fitting that the warning of danger should be more vivid on its approach, yet one fails to see why the more definite symbolical act of Aga- bus should exclude previous intimations of danger on the part of affectionate friends speaking of the Holy Ghost. In νετ. 9 nothing is said as to the prophecies of the daughter of Philip and Paul’s imprisonment, but see below.
Ver. 5. ἐξαρτίσαι: here in the sense of accomplishing the days, {.ε., finishing the time, the seven days during which we had to remain for the cargo to be unloaded or for other business = atrap- τίζειν (and cf. Luke xiv. 28), Vulgate, “expletis diebus,” Chrys., πληρῶσαι,
so Oecum., Theoph. The verb is only used once elsewhere in N.T., and there by St. Paul, 2 Tim. iii. 17 = furnishing, completing, so Jos., Ant., iii., 2, 2, where the verb is used as in 2 Tim., J. c., and some have thought that here the verb means that the ship was completely pre- pared for the continuance of her voyage. So Rendall who takes ἡμᾶς (reading éfap. ἡμᾶς) as the object, and renders ‘and when it proved that the days furnished us”; on St. Paul’s stay and its reason see Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 300, and for other explanations, Nésgen and Weiss, in loco. ‘There is no reason to interpret the words as meaning that the Apostle found that his desire, xx. 16, could not be fulfilled, and that so he was content to remain the seven days.—mporrep., see above: πάντων. The clause has been taken (Wendt) to intimate that the num- ber of disciples at Tyre was small; this was probably the case, but it is not clear from the words here. σὺν γυν. καὶ τέκ., a descriptive touch of an eyewitness (Zockler) ; on this local use of ἕως as characteristic of Luke, cf. Friedrich, p. 20.---θέντες . « « αἰγ., see xx. 36. aiy., a smooth shore in distinction to one precipitous and rocky, xxvii. 39, also found in Matt. xiii. 2, 48, John xxi. 4. In LXX, Judg. v. 17, Ecclus. xxiv. 14 (53 al., and cf. note in Speaker's Commentary, in loco). See Hackett’s note on this accurate description of the beach on both sides of the site of the ancient Tyre, and also a parallel to the scene described in this passage from modern missionary life.