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Jos., Vita, ii. St. Paul was a covenant member of a divine πολιτεία, the com- monwealth of God, the laws of which he claims to have respected and observed. The word is also found in LXX, Es. viii. 13 (H. and R.), 2 Macc. vi. 1, xi. 25, and four times in 4 Macc. Lightfoot, u. s., parallels the use of the verb in Phil. by St. Paul from Clem. Rom., Corv., xxi., 1, and Polycarp, Phil., v., 5. But Clem. Rom., 4. s., vi., 1, has the phrase τοῖς ἀνδράσιν ὁσίως πολιτευσαµένοις, referring to the Ο.Τ. Saints, and so St. Peter and St. Paul. To this latter ex- pression Deissmann, Bibelstudien, i., p. 211, finds a parallel in the fragment of a letter dating about 164 B.c. (Pap., Par., 63, coll. 8 and 9), τοῖς θεοῖς πρὸς οὓς ὁσίως καὶ . . . δικαίως (πολι)τευσάμε- νος.---τῷ Θεῷ: in another moment of danger at the close of his career, 2 Tim. i. 3, the Apostle again appeals to a higher tribunal than that of the Sanhe- drim or of Caesar. For the dative of the object cf. Rom. xiv. 18, Gal. ii. 19.— ἄχρι ταύτης τῆς ἡμ., emphatic, because the Apostle wished to affirm that he was still in his present work for Christ a true member of the theocracy, cf. Rom. Bon
Ver. 2. “Avav.: not the Ananias of iv. 7, Luke iii. 2, John xviii, 13, but the son of Nebedzus, appointed to his office by Herod of Chalcis, high priest from c. 47-59. He was sent to Rome on account of the complaints of the Sama- ritans against the Jews, but the Jewish cause prevailed, and there is no reason to suppose that Ananias lost his office. The probabilities are that he retained it until he was deposed shortly before the departure of Felix. Josephus gives us a terrible picture of his violent and un- scrupulous conduct, Ant., xx.,9, 2. But his Roman sympathisers made him an object of hatred to the nationalists, and in A.D. 66, in the days of the last great revolt against the Romans, he was dragged from a sewer in which he had hidden, and was murdered by the wea- pons of the assassins whom in his own period of power he had not scrupled to employ, Jos., Β. Χ., ii., 17, 9, ‘‘ Ananias,”’ B.D.?, and Hastings’ B.D., Ο. Holtz- mann, Neutest. Zeitgeschichte, pp. 130,
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