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ἄνδρας τε καὶ γυναῖκας, 5. ὡς καὶ ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς 1 μαρτυρεῖ por, καὶ may τὸ πρεσβυτέριον παρ) dv καὶ ἐπιστολὰς δεξάµενος πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς εἰς Δαμασκὸν ἐπορευόμην, ἄξων καὶ τοὺς ἐκεῖσε ὄντας δεδεµένους εἰς Ἱερουσαλήμ, ἵνα τιμωρηθῶσιν. 6. ἐγένετο δέ por πορευοµένῳ καὶ ἐγγίζοντι τῇ Δαμασκῷ περὶ µεσημβρίαν ἐξαίφνης ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ περιαστράψαι pds ἱκανὸν περὶ ἐμέ: 7.2 ἔπεσόν τε εἲς τὸ ἔδαφος, καὶ ἤκουσα φωνῆς λεγούσης por, Σαούλ, Σαούλ. τί µε διώκεις ; 8. ἐγὼ δὲ ἀπεκρίθην, Τίς ef, Κύριε; εἶπέ τε πρός µε, Εγώ εἰμι ᾿Ιησοῦς 6 Ναζωραῖος ὃν σὺ διώκεις. 3
9. ot δὲ σὺν ἐμοὶ ὄντες τὸ μὲν pds ἐθεάσαντο;ὰ καὶ ἔμφοβοι ἐγένοντο: τὴν δὲ φωνὴν οὐκ ἤκουσαν τοῦ λαλοῦντός por. 10. εἶπον δέ, Τί ποιήσω, Κύριε; ὁ δὲ Κύριος εἶπε πρός µε, ᾿Αναστὰς πορεύου eis Δαμασκόν: κἀκεῖ σοι λαλη- θήσεται περὶ πάντων ὧν τέτακταί σοι ποιῆσαι. ΙΙ. ὡς δὲ” οὐκ
ἐνέβλεπον ἀπὸ τῆς δόξης τοῦ φωτὸς ἐκείνου, χειραγωγούμενος ὑπὸ.
1D has µαρτυρησει, so Blass in β, and Hilg.; B has εµαρτυρει (but Weiss
and W.H. reject).
3 For επεσον ΝΑΒΕΗΡ have επεσα, so Tisch., W.H., Weiss, but Blass in B has
επεσον with DL, 5ο Hilg.
> SABH, Syr. P., Boh., Arm. om. και ep. εγενοντο, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, but the reading is retained by DELP, Sah., Syr. Η., Gig., so Blass in
B, and Hilg.; on εµφ. εγεν. see x. 40.
See Alford’s note (he brackets the words).
* Blass reads ws δε ανεστην ουκ εβλ. with d, Syr. H. mg., Gig. ουκ ενεβλεπον,. but B has ovSev εβλεπον, 5ο W.H. marg., Blass in B; εµβλεπειν not used abso- lutely elsewhere, B may therefore be original (Wendt).
plural, perhaps in relation to xxvi. 11, where Paul’s persecuting fury extends to strange cities; usually singular.
Ver. 5. ὡς καὶ ὁ apx.: not the high priest at the time he was speaking, for that was Ananias, xxiii. 2, but rather to the high priest Caiaphas who gave him his commission to Damascus, and who may have been still alive, hence μαρτυρεῖ, present.—rovs ἀδελ.: the word was used by the Jews of each other, Exod. ii. 14, Deut. xv. 3, and St. Paul uses it here to show that he regarded the Jews as still his brethren, cf. Rom. ix. 3.---τοὺς ἐκεῖσε ὄντας, cf. xxi. 3, the adverb may imply those who had come thither only, so that refugees, not residents in Damascus, are meant, but the word may simply = ἐκεῖ, see On xxi. 3, and Winer-Moulton, liv. 7. In) Hipp., VietSan.,,di:;02,ep: 35, we have ot ἐκεῖσε οἰκέοντες.--- τιμωρηθῶσιν: only here and in xxvi. 1m in N.T.: used as here in classical Greek, but in this sense more frequent in middle.
Ver. 6. περὶ peonp., cf. xxvi. 12, not mentioned in ix., note of a personal recol- lection.—éfai@vns: only here in Acts
and in ix. 3, see note; twice in Luke’s Gospel, only once elsewhere in N.T.; see further on xxvi. 12 note, on the three accounts of St. Paul’s Conversion.— περιαστράψαι: so also in ix. 3, nowhere else in N.T., see note above, cf. xxvi. 13, περιλάμπειν (note); the supernatural brightness of the light is implied here in δόξης, ver. II.
Ver. 7. ἔπεσον: on the form ἔπεσα. W.H. see Kennedy, Sources of N.T. Greek, p. 15ο, Winer-Schmiedel, p. 111.—€Sagos: only here in N.T. (in LXX, 1 Kings vi. 15, Wisd. xi. 5, etc., and in Macc. vi. 7, πίπτων els τὸ ἔδ.), but the verb ἐδαφίζειν is found in Luke xix. 44, and there only in N.T.—Kovea φωνῆς, see on ix. 4 and 7, cf. Dan. x. 6-9.—ZaovA, Σαοὺλ, as in Ix. 4, See note on xxvi. 14 (and cf. reading” in B text).
Vv. &andg. See on ix. 5 and ix. 4, 7;. 9.—ép. ἐγέν., see critical note.