Ver. 6. R.V. ἀπησπασάμεθα ἀλλ. “‘bade each other farewell,’’ see critical note. ἁπασπάζομαι: only herein Ν.Τ., in Tobit x. 13 S (AR al.); Himerius, p. 194; here of salutations at departure as simple verb in ver. 7, of salutations on arrival (1 Macc. xii. 17).— τὸ mdotoy: article indicates that it was the same ship (ver. 2 without the article) which
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πλοῖον, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ ὑπέστρεψαν eis τὰ ἴδια.
7. Ἡμεῖς δὲ τὸν πλοῦν
διανύσαντες ἀπὸ Τύρου κατηντήσαµεν cis Πτολεμαΐδα, καὶ ἀσπασά-
µενοι τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ἐμείναμεν ἡμέραν µίαν παρ αὐτοῖς.
8. τῇ δὲ
ἐπαύριον ἐξελθόντες 1 οἱ περὶ τὸν Παῦλον ἤλθομεν eis Καισάρειαν ' καὶ
εἰσελθόντες εἷς τὸν οἶκον Φιλίππου τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ, τοῦ ὄντος ἐκ
lo. περι τον Π. om. SABCE, Vulg., and other verss.; Tisch., W.H., R.V.,
Weiss, Wendt, Blass.
was going on to Ptolemais.—eis τὰ ἴδια, cf. John xvi. 32, xix. 27, cf. B text v. 18, xiv. 18 (τὰ ἴδια not in Synoptists, but ϱ/. Luke xviii. 28), in LXX, Esther v. 1ο, vi. 12, 3 Macc. vi. 27, 37, Vii. 8.
Ver. 7. διανύσαντες: “and when we had finished the voyage from Tyre we arrived at Ptolemais,” R.V. (so in effect A.V.), but Page (so Wendt) renders “' but we having (thereby) completed our voyage (i.e., from Macedonia, xx. 6), came from Tyre to Ptolemais,’’ on the ground that διανύω would not be used of the short journey to Ptolemais from Τγτε.---Πτολε- µαΐδα : the ancient Accho and the modern Acre, Arab. Αλλα: St. f$ean d’Acre, mentioned here for the last time in Scrip- ture. About thirty miles south of Tyre. In Judg. i. 31 it was assigned to Asher, but it was never taken by Israel, and was always reckoned as belonging to the Philistine towns, and later by the Greeks as belonging to Pheenicia. In its stormy history it was held in succession by Babylonians and Persians (Strabo, xvi., 2, 25), and on the first division of Alexan- der’s kingdom it was assigned to Ptolemy Soter (Ptolemy I.), from whom it may have derived its name (so Hamburger). Schiirer however refers the name to Ptolemy II. (Philadelphus), and others to Ptolemy Lathurus. In the Syro- Egyptian wars its importance as a mili- tary station was manifested, since the power which held it could close the road down the Syrian coast to Egypt. To the Jews it was always hostile, 1 Macc. v. 15, Jos., Ant., xii., 8, 2, 1 Mace. xii. 45, Jos., Ant., xiii, 6, 2, and later in history when the Jewish War broke out against Rome, the Jews, two thousand in number, were slaughtered in Ptolemais, Jos., B.F., ii, 18, 5. After falling to the Parthians, it finally passed under the dominion of Rome, but although it was called colonia Ptolemais under the Em- peror Claudius, Pliny, v., 19, it does not seem to have possessed the actual privi- leges of a colony (Schiirer). See on its earlier and modern history, Hamburger, Real-Encyclopidie des Fudentums, i., 1,
p- 41; ‘‘Acco,” Hastings’ B.D., ‘‘ Accho,” B.D.?; Schirer, fewish People, div. ii., νο]. i., p.go, Ε.Τ. It was only separated from Tyre by a short day’s voyage, if the wind was favourable. Here Herod landed on his return from Italy to Syria, Jos., Ant., xiv., 15, 1.—Tovs ἀδελφοὺς: a Chris- tian Church at Ptolemais ; founded perhaps by Philip the Evangelist. It is also very possible that a Church may have existed there ever since the dispersion after the death of St. Stephen, Acts xi. 19. On the times which St. Paul probably visited it see ‘* Ptolemais ” B.D.}.
Ver. 8. Φ. τοῦ evayy.: the title, as Wendt and Hilgenfeld think, may have been given to Philip on account of his evangelising work, cf. viii., 12, 40; ‘‘ the Evangelist”: the honourable title gained by some signal service to the Gospel ; and the two incidents noted in his career, his preaching to the Samaritans, and to the Ethiopian eunuch, each mark an advance in the free development of the Church (Lightfoot, Galatians, p. 299). He had originally been set apart for other work, vi. 2, but both he and St. Stephen had been called to higher duties, and it is not sufficient to say that he was called an “‘ evangelist” to distinguish him from Philip the Apostle, for that would have been done sufficiently by calling him ‘one of the Seven”. The word only occurs twice elsewhere in the N.T., Ephes. iv, 11, 2 Tim. iv. 5. In the for- mer passage the Evangelists are placed between the Apostles and Prophets on the one hand, and the Pastors and Teachers on the other. The latter two offices suggested those who were attached to a settled community, whilst the Apostles and Prophets were non-local. Between the two pairs stood the Evangelists, whose work like that of Philip was to preach the Word. But it is to be care- fully noted that as the title is used of the work of Philip, ‘‘one of the Seven,” and of that of Timothy, an Apostolic dele- gate, 2 Tim. iv. 5, it may have denoted an employment rather than an office, ‘“‘a work rather than an order,” and it