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αὐτὸν 6 Χιλίαρχος ἄγεσθαι εἰς τὴν παρεµβολήν, εἰπὼν µάστιξιν
Ἀνετάζεσθαι αὐτάν, ἵνα ἐπιγνῷ δι ἣν αἰτίαν οὕτως ἐπεφώνουν αὐτῷ.
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ἑκατόνταρχον ὁ
A 3 ς lal Παῦλος, Et ἄνθρωπον “Pwpatoy καὶ ἀκατάκριτον
ἔξεστιν ὑμῖν µαστίζειν; 26. ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ ἑκατόνταρχος, προσελθὼν
ἀπήγγειλε τῷ Χιλιάρχῳ λέγων “Opa τί µέλλεις ποιεῖν: ὁ γὰρ
ἄνθρωπος οὗτος ᾿Ρωμαῖός ἐστι.
27. προσελθὼν δὲ ὁ Χχιλίαρχος
1 Instead of αερα D, Gig., Syr. P., Cassiod. have ουρανον, so Blass in β. ριπτογτων in DEHL, Blass, Hilg., but text S§ABC, all edd.
Ἄπροετειναν SYBL, so Tisch., W.H., Weiss, Wendt, Blass in B, Hilg.; AE 68 have προετεινον; CD 40, 137, προσετειναν; P 31, προετεινεν, plural changed into
sing. ο x. A. regarded as stili the subject.
3 opa before τι om. ΝΑΒΟΕ, Vulg., Syrr. P.H., Boh., Arm., Tisch., W.H,, Weiss, Wendt, but retained by Blass with DHLP. After εκατον. Blass in B, and Hilg. add οτι Ῥωμαιον εαυτον λεγει with D, Gig., Wern.
ynother sign of the same rage and fury, a similar demonstration ; this is preferable to the supposition that they threw dust into the air to signify that they would throw stones if they could. εἰς τὸν ἀέρα seems to imply the interpretation adop- ted; the dust could scarcely have been aimed at Paul, for he was out of reach; but see 2 Sam. xvi. 13.
Ver. 24. 6 χιλ., See xxi. 31.—7rapep.., xxi. 34.—eim@v: whether the chiliarch understood Paul’s words or not, he evi- dently saw from the outcries of the mob that the Apostle was regarded as a dan- gerous person, and he probably thought to obtain some definite information from the prisoner himself by ἐοτίωτε.---μάστι- ξιν, cf. 2 Macc. vii. 1, 4 Macc. vi. 3, ix. 12, etc., and 1 Kings xii. 11, Prov. xxvi. 3, and in N.T., Heb. xi. 36; the Roman scourging was a terrible punishment; for its description cf., ¢.g., Keim, Geschichte Fesu, ΠΠ., p. 390 (for Jewish scougings see Farrar, St. Paul, ii., Excurs., xi.).— ἀνετάζεσθαι: not found in classical Greek, but ἐξετάζεσθαι used specially of exami- nation by torture. Itis found inthe active voice in Judg. vi. 29 A, and Susannah, ver. 14.—émeg.: ‘shouted against him,” R.V., see on xxi. 34, and 3 Macc. vii. 13 —only here with dative.
Ver. 25. Ἠπροέτειναν: ‘and when they had tied him up with the thongs,” R.V., 7.é., with the ligatures which kept the body extended and fixed while under flogging ; Vulgate, ‘“‘cum astrinxissent eum loris’’; but προέ. is rather ‘stretched him forward with the thongs,” z.e., bound him to a pillar or post in a tense posture for receiving the blows, see critical note.
Blass takes προέτειναν as an imperfect. cf. xxviii. 2.---τοῖς ἱμᾶσιν: referring to the thongs usually employed for so bind- ing, and this seems borne out by ver. 29 δεδεκώς: not ‘for the thongs,” as in R.V. margin, so Lewin, Blass, Weiss and others, as if = µάστιξ. Grimm admits that the word may be used either of the leathern thongs with which a person was bound or was beaten, but here he prefers the latter.—tév ἑστῶτα ἑκατόν.: the centurion who presided over the scourg- ing, just as a centurion was appointed to be in charge over the execution of our Lord; on the form ἑκατόν., only here in Acts, see Simcox, Lauguage of the Ν.Τ., Ρ. 30, and see Moulton and Geden, sub v. -dpxns, and above on x. 1.—ei: ‘“‘in- terrogatio subironica est, confidentiz plena,” Blass (so Wendt).—kal: ‘and that too,” δύο τὰ ἐγκλήματα: καὶ τὸ ἄνευ λόγου καὶ τὸ Ῥωμαῖον ὄντα, Chrys., cf. xvi. 37. The torture was illegal in the case of a Roman citizen, although it might be employed in the case of slaves and foreigners: Digest. Leg. 48, tit. 18, c.r. ‘*Et non esse a tormentis incipi- endum Div. Augustus constituit.’”? At Philippi St. Paul had probably not been heard in his protests on account of the din andtumult: ‘nunc quia illi negotium est cum Romanis militibus, qui modestius et gravius se gerebant, occasione utitur ” Calvin.