Ver. 18. σπεῦσον καὶ ἕξ.: implying danger, cf. ix. 29.—oov µαρτ.: grounded upon the occurrence before Damascus, and so a striking testimony.
Ver. το. Κύριε, ix. 5.--αὐτοὶ ἐπίσ.: Paul seems as it were to plead with his Lord that men cannot but receive test:- mony from one who had previously been an enemy of Jesus of Nazareth ; the words
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αὐτόν.
ἐξαποστελῶ1 σε.
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21. καὶ εἶπε πρός µε, Πορεύου, ὅτι ἐγὼ eis ἔθνη μακρὰν
22. Ἴκουον δὲ αὐτοῦ ἄχρι τούτου τοῦ λόγου, καὶ ἐπῆραν τὴν
φωνὴν αὐτῶν λέγοντες, Aipe ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς τὸν τοιοῦτον: οὗ γὰρ
καθῆκον 2 αὐτὸν Liv.
23. κραυγαζόντων δὲ ὃ αὐτῶν, καὶ ῥιπτούντων
1 εξαποστειλω, but W.H. marg. αποστελω, so B; D has εξαποστελλω, but Blass
in B = Τ.Ε.
2 cafykov, D?, but καθηκεν SABCDEHLP (Blass).
in minsc. show imperf. not understood.
Other var. καθηκει, καθηκαν
3 After κραυγαζ. τε is read by Lach., W.H., Weiss, Wendt with ABC, Syr. P., Aeth., but Tisch. with Τ.Ε. keeps δε, so S$DEHLP, Vulg., Boh., Syr. H., Arm.,
Chrys.
too are directed to his hearers, so that they may impress them with the strength of the testimony thus given by one who had imprisoned the Christians.—Sépov: on the power of the Sanhedrim outside Jerusalem see on p. 15].--κατὰ Tas συν., cf. viii. 3, xx. 20, and for such punish- ments in the synagogues cf. Matt. x. 17, xxiii. 34, Mark xiii. 9, Luke xxi. 12, ¢f. Luke xii. 11, Edersheim, History of the Fewish Nation, p. 374.
Ver. 20. τοῦ µ. σου: he identifies himself with ca aa his testimony like that of the martyr is borne to Christ; on the word see p. 67; the term is here in a transition stage from ‘‘witness’”’ to ‘‘martyr,” cf. also Rev. xvii. 6: Hackett quotes the Christians of Lyons, towards the close of the second century, refusing to be called ‘‘ martyrs”? because such an honourable name only belonged to the true and faithful Witness, or to those who had sealed their testimony by con- stancy to the end, and they feared lest they should waver: Euseb., Hist., v., 2.--καὶ αὐτὸς, cf. viii. 13, xv. 32, xxi. 24, xxiv. 15, 16, xxv. 22, xxvii. 36, here it is placed in sharp contrast to the preceding words about Stephen (with whose witness he was now identified). On καὶ αὐτὸς as characteristic of Luke in his Gospel and Acts see Hawkins, Hore Synoptice, p. 33, aS compared with its employment by the other Synoptists, sometimes it is inserted with emphasis, Plummer on Luke i. 16.—ovvevd., see note on ΥΠ. I.
Ver. 21. εἰς ἔθνη: the mere mention of the Gentiles roused their fury, and they saw in it a justification of the charge in xxi. 28; the scene closely resembled the tumultuous outburst which led to the murder of St. Stephen,
Ver. 22. ἐπῆραν τὴν Φϕ., see on ii. 14. —aipe, cf. xxi. 36, emphasised here by
ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς: present tense, a continu- ous ϱΓΥ.--καθῆκον: only used by St. Paul elsewhere in N.T., cf. Rom. i. 28. The impertect, καθῆκεν, see critical note, implies that long ago he ought to have been put to death “for it was not fit,” etc., non debebat (or debuerat) vivere, Winer-Moulton, xli. 2. καθ- = προσῆκον Att. In LXX, Deut. xxi. 17, Ezek. xxi. 27 (32), and other passages, also several times in Books of Macc. (see H. and R.). For construction cf. Burton, p. 15.
Ver. 23. κραυγαζόντων δὲ (τε, Weiss, Wendt, W.H.), only here in Acts (cf. Luke iv. 41, but doubtful: W.H. read κράζοντα), six times in St. John, and four times in his narrative of the Passion of the cries of the Jewish multitude, cf. especially xix. 15, so too in 2 Esdras iii. 13, in classical Greek rare (Dem.), used by Epict., Diss., iii., 4, 4, of the shouts in the theatres.—firr. τὰ ἵμάτια: not throwing off their garments as if pre- paring to stone Paul (for which Zéckler compares vii. 58, and see Plato, Rep., 474 A), for the fact that the Apostle was in the custody of the Romans would have prevented any such purpose. The verb may be used as a frequentative, ῥιπτεῖν, jactare, ῥίπτειν, jacere, while some of the old grammarians associate with it a suggestion of earnestness or effort, others of contempt, Grimm-Thayer, sub ν. (for the form in LXX cf. Dan., Theod., ix., 18,20). The word here rather means ‘‘tossing about their garments,” a manifestation of excitement and un- controllable rage, cf. Ovid, Am., iii., 2, 74, and also instances in Wetstein, cf. Chrys., who explains ῥιπτάζοντες, ἐκτινάσσον- ves. Dean Farrar refers to Ρα]. Expln. Fund, 1879, p, 77, for instances of the sudden excitability of Oriental crowds, and for similar illustrations see Hackett, in ἴοεο.---κονιορτὸν βαλλ.: best taken as