Ver. 34. ἐβόων: if we read ἐπεφώνουν, see critical note, a verb peculiar to St. Luke, Luke xxiii. 21, Acts xii. 22, xxii. 24 =3 ‘shouted, δν ὃ., κο ο το ST. —pn δυνάµ., see critical note. — τὸ ἀσφαλὲς: adjective, three times in St. Luke with this same shade of mean- ing, xxii. 30, xxv. 26 (cf. ii. 36, and Wisd. xviii. 6, ἀσφαλῶς).---παρεµ.: the word may mean an army, Heb. xi. 34, or
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34. ἄλλοι δὲ
ἄλλο τι” ἐβόων ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ: μὴ δυνάµενος δὲ γνῶναι τὸ ἀσφαλὲς διὰ
τὸν θόρυβον, ἐκέλευσεν ἄγεσθαι αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν παρεμβολήν.
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35. ὅτε
ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀναβαθμούς, συνέβη βαστάζεσθαι αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τῶν
36. ἠκολούθει γὰρ τὸ πλῆθος
τοῦ λαοῦ * κράζον,ὸ Αἷρε αὐτόν.
37. Μέλλων τε εἰσάγεσθαι eis τὴν παρεμβολὴν ὁ
Παῦλος λέγει
τῷ χιλιάρχω, Ei ἔξεστί por εἰπεῖν τι πρὸς σέ; ὁ δὲ ἔφη, Ἑλληνιστὶ
lus αν ern om. αν SABD 18, 36, 105, 180, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss,
Wendt.
2 eBowv HLP, Chrys. ; επεφωνουν NABDE, Tisch., W.H., etc., as above.
Suva-
pevov δε αυτου (instead of δνναµενος δε HLP), SAB(D)E 13, 31, 40, 68, same auth. 3 em τους αναβ., D has εις (adhuc esset in gradus d).
4 Instead of κραζον (DHLP, Syr. Ἡ.,
Chrys.), which seems to be a gram.
emend., SABE, Syr. Pesh., Theophl., same auth. as in ver. 34 have κραζοντες,
°D pro ape has αναιρεισθαι (Gig., Sah. add τον εχθρον ημων, cf. xxiv. 18,
XXViii. 10).
the camp which it occupies (so in LXX = Heb. FTW Judg. iv. 16, viii. το,
1 Macc. ν. 28). In this passage may = the castle itself, as A. and R.V., or perhaps the barracks in the castle. A Macedonian word according to Phryn., but see Kennedy, Sources of N.T. Greek, pp. 15, 16, and also for its meaning here, Schurer, Fewish People, div. i., vol. Π., pi 55, be ne
Ver. 35. ἐγέν. ἐπὶ, cf. νετ. 17, and Luke xxiv. 22, Grimm, sub yiv., 5, g. ἄναβ.: the steps which led up to the fortress from the Temple area. B.f., v., 5, 8, describes the surroundings of the scene vividly, and the καταβάσεις which led down from Antonia to the Temple; see above on ver. 31, and O. Holtzmann, Neutest. Zeitgeschichte, p. 138.—ovvéBy βαστάζ.: the σύν is not superfluous (see Meyer-Wendt and Hackett), it in- dicates the peril of the situation; the pressure of the people became increas- ingly violent as they saw that St. Paul would escape them, and compelled the soldiers to carry him, that he might not be torn from them altogether, so that the carrying was not merely ‘“propter an- gustias loci”. βαστάζ., cf. iii. 2, see Schirer, u. s.
Ver. 36. ἠκολούθει, imperfect, ‘kept following”.—Alpe αὐτόν: the cry was continuous; it was the same cry which had been raised against another and a greater prisoner Who had been de- livered to the Romans as a 7alefactor,
cf. Luke xxiii. 18, John xix. 15, and also Polycarp, Martyr, ΠΠ., το.
Ver. 37. παρεµβ., see on ver. 34.— el, cf. i. 6.—EAAn. γινώσκεις; no need to supply λαλεῖν, cf. Xen., Cyz., vii., 5, 31; so in Latin, Grace nescire, Cic., Pro Flacco, iv., Vulgate, literally, Grecé nosti ?
Ver. 38. οὐκ ἄρα σὺ el: mirantis est, cf. Arist., Av., 280 (Blass). Vulgate, Eras. render Nonne tu es... ? but emphasis on ov« ‘‘ Thou art not then” (as I supposed). No doubt the false pro- phet to whom reference is made by Josephus. Whilst Felix was governor he gathered the people around him on the Mount of Olives to the number of 30,000, and foretold that at his word the walls of the city would fall. But Felix attacked him and the impostor fled although the majority (πλεῖστοι) of his followers were captured or slain, Jos., B.F., ii, 13, 5. In another account, Ant., xx., 8, 6, Josephus states that 400 were killed and 200 wounded, so that he evidently contradicts himself and his numbers are untrustworthy. For the various attempts to reconcile these dif- ferent notices, cf. Krenkel, fosephus und Lukas, p. 243. But apart from this, there is no positive discrepancy with St. Luke. Itis possible that the chiliarch as a soldier only reckoned those who were armed, whilst Josephus spoke of the whole crowd of followers. Evidently the Roman officer thought that the Egyptian had returned after his flight, and that he