Ver. 11. οὐκ ἐνέβλεπον, cf, Xen., Mem., iii., 11, 10, here absolute, Grimm- Thayer, sub v.: chap. ix., 8, gives the fact of the blindness, here we have its cause as from St. Paul’s personal remini-
5—16.
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αὐτοῦ :
καὶ ἤκουσας.
15. ὅτι ἔση µάρτυς αὐτῷ πρὸς πάντας ἀνθρώπους, ὧν ἑώρακας 16. καὶ νῦν τί µέλλεις; ἀναστὰς βάπτισαι καὶ ἀπό-
1 evkaBns for evo. S$BHLP, Chrys., Theophl., Tisch., W.H., Wendt, Weiss, Blass.
2 After ανεβλεψα Blass in B omits εις αντον, 50 d, Sah., Hilg. (Schmiedel also omits), but see Wendt, note, p. 355 (1899).
scence.—8déns:
Heb. “1)5 cf. 1 Cor.
xv. 40, 2 Cor. iii. 7, and Luke ix. 31.
Ver. 12. Ἄναν., i ix. 10. The description is added, ἀνηρ ev. Ἰ., manifestly fitting before a Jewish audience, and a proof that the brother who came to Saul was no law-breaker, Lewin, 6. Paul, ii., 146. On the reading εὐλαβής, cf. ii. 5.---τῶν κατοικ.: seems to imply that Ananias had dwelt for some time in Damascus, ix.
Ver. 13. ἐπιστὰς: ‘‘standing over one,’ used frequently in Acts of the appearance of an angel, or of the inter- vention of a friend (or of an enemy), see Luke ii. 9, iv. 39, x. 40, ΧΙΙ. 7, xxiv. 4, only found in Luke and Paul, ο Ῥ. 42, see above xii. 7. µαρτ., vi. 3. ἀδελφέ, ix, 17.---ἀνάβλεψον .. . ἀνέβλ. eis αὐτόν: ‘‘receive thy sight, and in that very hour I recovered my sight | and looked upon him,” R.V. margin. ava- βλέπειν may mean (1) to recover sight, ix. 17, 18, or (2) to look up, Luke xix. 5, but used frequently as if combining both meanings, Humphry on R.V., and Page, in loco. Meyer and Zéockler render “to look up” in both clauses.—airq τῇ ὥρᾳ, see note on xvi. 18.
Ver. 14. 6 Θεὸς τῶν πατ. ἡμῶν : again a conciliatory phrase, cf. vii. 32, so St. Peter in iii. 13, v. 30.—mpoexetp.: ‘‘ hath appointed,” only in Acts in Ν.Τ., iii. 20, and in xxvi. 16, again used by Paul in narrating his conversion and call. In LXX, cf. Exod. iv. 13, Josh. iii. 12, 2 Macc. iii. 7, viii. 9, always with the notion of some one selected for an im- portant duty (Lumby): to which may be added Dan., LXX, ili. 22 (see H. and R.), ef. note on iii, 20.—rTdv δίκαιον, see on iii. 14, and vii. 52.--ϕ. ἐκ τοῦ στ.: “a voice from his mouth,’’ R.V., so Rhem., as the Apostle heard it at his conversion. στ. is often used in phrases of a Hebra-
istic character, so here fitly by Ananias,
CPV ays Ver. 15. µάρτυς αὐτῷ: ‘‘a witness for him,” R.V., cf. i. 8.—mdvras ἀἄνθ.:
-we may see another evidence of the
Apostle’s tact in that he does not yet employ the word ἔθνη.--ὧν ἑώρακας καὶ ἤκονσας, Blass well compares for the former verb the Apostle’s own words, i Cor. ix. 1; perfect tense, marks what was essential in giving him enduring consecration as an Apostle, cf. Blass, Gram., p. 237.
Ver. 16. καὶ νῶν: so by St. Paulin xx. 22, 25, ΧΧΝΙ. 6, xvi. 37, xiii. 11; also found in iii. 17, x. 5, but no instances in Luke’s Gospel of καὶ viv beginning a sentence, Hawkins, Hove Synoptica, p. 145.---τί µέλλεις: only here in this sense in N.T., cf. 4 Macc. vi. 23, ix. 1, and so often in classical Greek, Aesch., Prom., 36, etc.— ἀναστὰς, see v. 17.--βάπτισαι: middle voice (so perhaps in 1 Cor. x. 2, W.H. text, but passive in margin, as Blass), as a tule naturally in the passive, ‘‘to be baptised,” cf. ix. 18, but the convert in “ setting baptised” was conceived as doing something for himself, not merely as receiving something (Simcox, Lan- guage of the N.T., pp. 97, 98), so appar- ently Blass, Gram., p. 182, or the middle may mean that he submitted himself to Christian Baptism, Bethge, p. 197, and ΑἩοτά.- -ἀπόλουσαι: also middle, . cf. ii. 38, and 1 Cor. vi. 11, the result of the submission to Baptism, Tit. iii. 5, Ephes. v. 26.-- ἐπικαλ., cf. Ῥ. 81, on the sig- nificance of the phrase. This callin’ upon the name of Christ, thus closely