equipped horses,” Xen., Hell., v., 3, 1, and see St. Paul, p. 302: the journey on foot, some sixty-four miles, was scarcely probable for Paul, especially if, as it would seem from D, it was accomplished in two days. Grotius took it as = ‘‘sarcinas jumentis imponere,” as if ὑποζύγια, Xen., Hell., vii., 2, 18. Hackett and Rendall refer the word to the packing up of the valuable alms which St. Paul was carry- ing to Jerusalem, but this interpretation seems fanciful, although Hackett sup- poses that the contribution might have consisted in part of raiment or provisions. Belser still more curiously refers it to getting change in the current money of Palestine for the alms collected in the coin of various Ιαπάς.---ἄνεβ.: imperfect,
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17. ΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΩΝ δὲ ἡμῶν εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα, ἀσμένως 1 ἐδέξαντο
ἡμᾶς οἱ ἀδελφοί.
18. τῇ δὲ ἐπιούσῃ εἰσήει 6 Παῦλος σὺν ἡμῖν . 3 ς , πρὸς ᾽Ιάκωβον, πάντες τε παρεγένοντο οἱ πρεσβύτεροι.
10. καὶ
ἀσπασάμενος αὐτούς, ἐξηγεῖτο καθ Ev ἕκαστον ὧν ἐποίησεν & Θεὸς
ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι διὰ τῆς διακονίας οὐτοῦ.
20. ot δὲ ἀκούσαντες
ἐδόξαζον Tov? Κύριον’ εἶπόν τε αὐτῷ, Θεωρεῖς, ἀδελφέ, πόσαι μυριάδες
SNR 3 5 , a ’ We lary x a δν εισιν ἰουδαίων τῶν πεπιστευκότων: και παντες ζηλωταὶ του νοµου
1 εδεξαντο, but ΝΑΒΟΕ, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Wendt απεδ. 2 Kuptov, but Θεον NABCEL, Syr. Pesh., Boh., Aeth., so Tisch., W.H., R.V.,
Wendt, Weiss.
3 After µνριαδες εισιν ABCE, Vulg., Boh., Aeth. 13, 36, 40, W.H., R.V., Weiss,
Wendt ev τοις Ιουδαιοις; om. in Tisch. with δν 34*, 95*, 97.
D, Syr. Pesh.,
Par., Sah., Aug. read εν ty lovdarq, so Blass in β text.
to denote the start on the journey (cf. viii. 25: ὑπέστρεφον, R.V.). Both A. and R.V. here render ‘‘went up,” but it should be rendered ‘‘we set about the journey to Jerusalem,” end of third m. j.
Ver. 16. ἄγοντες wap’ ᾧ ξενισ.: A. and R.V. render ‘bringing with them Mnason with whom we should lodge,” but Meyer-Wendt, so Page and Rendall, render ‘bringing us to the house of Mnason,” etc., cf. also Spitta, Apostelge- schichte, p. 234. This is more in accor- dance with Codex D, on which see critical note = @y. πρὸς Μνάσ. ἵνα ξενισ- θῶμεν wap’ αὐτῷ κ.τ.λ., see Blass, Gram., pp. 171, 213, and Winer-Schmiedel, p. 229. Wulgate (so Erasmus, Calvin) renders ‘‘adducentes secum apud quem hospitaremur Mnasonem,” but harsh, and presupposes that Mnason was at Czsarea.—Mvdoen, Att. Μνήσων, in late MS., Νάσων and ᾿Ιάσων, a name common among the Greeks, and Mnason was probably a Hellenist.—dpxaty, cf. xv. 7, May mean that he was an early disciple, R.V., or even from the begin- ning, the great Pentecost, xi. 15 (Hum- phrey), see also Ramsay, δὲ. Paul, p- 303; he may have been converted by his fellow-countryman Barnabas. If Blass is right in B, Acts xi. 2, he may have been a convert instructed by St. Peter (and in this sense ἀρχαῖος).
Ver. 17. There is no good reason to doubt that they were in time for the Feast; it is a legitimate inference from their tarrying at Cesarea that they were easily able to reach Jerusalem: possibly the presence of Jews from Asia may be taken, as Rendall points out, to indicate that the time of the Feast was near at Παπά.---ἀσμένως: only here, significantly; omitted in ii. 41 (R.V., W.H.); 2 Macc.
iv. 12, x. 33 A, 3 Macc. iii. 15, v. 21, so in classical Greek. Even if the welcome only came, as Wendt supposes, from those who were comparatively few amongst many in Jerusalem, St. Paul found himself a brother amongst brethren. ---ἐδέξ., see on xviii. 27, ἀποδέχομαι.
Ver. 18 τῇ ἐπιούσῃ, three times in ‘*We” sections, twice in rest of Acts; nowhere else in N.T. (in vii. 26 with ἡμέρᾳ), Hawkins, wu. s—otv ἡμῖν: the writer thus again claims to be an eye- witness of what passed; it may well have been the occasion for the re- ception of the alms collected from the Churches.—'IldkwBov: on the au- thoritative position of St. James as further shown here see Hort, Ecclesia, p. 105, and Moberly, Ministerial Priest- hood, p. 147. Nothing is said of the Apostles, and they may have been absent from Jerusalem on missionary work, or at least the chief of them. They would scarcely have been included under the term πρεσβ. as Wendt supposes.