7—12.
py θεομαχῶμεν.
469
IO. πολλῆς δὲ | γενομένης στάσεως, εὐλαβηθεὶς ὁ
Χιλίαρχος μὴ διασπασθῇ ὁ Παῦλος ὑπ) αὐτῶν, ἐκέλευσε τὸ στράτευμα
καταβὰν ἁρπάσαι αὐτὸν ἐκ µέσου αὐτῶν, ἄγειν τε” εἰς τὴν παρεµβολήν.
It. THe δὲ ἐπιούσῃ νυκτὶ ἐπιστὰς αὐτῷ ὁ Κύριος εἶπε, Θάρσει,
Madde 5+ ὡς γὰρ διεμαρτύρω τὰ περὶ ἐμοῦ cis Ἱερουσαλήμ, οὕτω σε
Set καὶ eis Ῥώμην μαρτυρῆσαι.
12. γενομένης δὲ ἡμέρας," ποιή-
σαντές τινες τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων συστροφὴν ἀνεθεμάτισαν ἑαυτούς, λέγοντες
1 Instead of γεν. ΝΒ ο8”, read γιν.; Lach., Alford, Hilg. follow T.R., but Tisch.,
Weiss, Wendt, W.H., R.V., Blass read γιν.
ευλαβηθεις retained by Meyer
as the rarer word in N.T., but Φοβηθεις SABCE, Chrys., and authorities above,
so Hilgenfeld.
? After αγειν, W.H., following B, Boh., 31, omit τε in text (not in marg.), but
Weiss retains in spite of B. αγειν upon εκελενσε.
If omitted, αρπασαι would depend upon καταβαν, and
3 fave om. SABC*E, verss., so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Blass (although retained in Flor. and by Hilg.).
4 Instead of T.R., NABCE 13, 61, Boh., Arm., Aeth. read -τες συστροφην οι
Ίονδαιοι; so authorities in ver. ΙΙ except Blass.
The latter reads with Τ.Ε.
συστροφην τινες των lovd., so L(HP), Vulg., Syr. Pesh., Gig., Flor., Lucif. (see also
Hilg.).
spoken to him, or an angel?" R.V. reading after ἄγγελος a mark of inter- rogation. Often explained as apostopesis (so Weiss), cf. W.H. reading—John vi. 62, Rom. ix. 22, but see Blass, Gram., p. 288, Burton, pp. 109-110. The words may have been followed by a significant gesture or look towards the Sadducees, or by some such words as St. Chrysostom suggests : ποῖον ἔγκλημα | or, without any real aposiopesis, the words may have been interrupted by the tumult, Winer- Moulton, Ixiv., ii. πνεῦμα: the word evidently refers back to St. Paul’s own statements, xxii. 6, 7, while at the same time it indicates that the Pharisees were far from accepting Paul’s account of the scene before Damascus as an appearance of Jesus of Nazareth.
Ver. 10. εὖλ., see critical note.—p7: after verbs of fear and danger in classical Greek, with subjunctive after primary tenses, with optative (more usually) after secondary tenses, but in N.T. only the subjunctive, Burton, p. 95, and Viteau, Le Grec du N.T., p. 83 (1893), Acts XXvii. 17, 2 Cor. xi. 3, xii. 20, Heb. iv. 1. -“διασπασθῇῃ, cf. LXX, Hos. xiii. 8, for use in same sense as here, to tear like a wild beast tears its prey in pieces (else- where in N.T., Mark v. 4, cf. LXX, Jer. ii. 20), cf. in classical Greek, Herod., iii., 13, Dem., 58, 8.—kataBay from Antonia. --ἁρπάσαι ἄγειν τε-- ἁρπάσαν ἄγειν (Blass), see critical note.
Ver. II. τῇ ἐπι. νυκτί, see Knaben-
bauer’s note, p. 385, on Hilgenfeld’s strictures; and below on the need and fitness of the appearance of the Lord on this night.—émuoras, cf. xii. 7, and xviii. 0.---ὁ κ., evidently Jesus, as the context implies.—9dpoer: only in the imperative in N.T. (seven times); the word on the lips of Christ had brought cheer to the sick and diseased, Matt. ix. 2, 22, Mark x. 49; to the disciples sailing on the sea, Matt. xiv. 27, Mark v. 50; to the same disciples in an hour of deeper need, John xvi. 33, cf. its use in LXX as a message of encouragement (elsewhere we have the verb θαρρεῖν, so in Paul and Heb., but cf. Apoc. of Peter, v., Blass, Gram., Ρ. 24). The Apostle might well stand in need of an assurance after the events of the day that his labours would not be cut short before his great desire was fulfilled. The words of the Lord as given to us by St. Luke intimate that the Evangelist regarded Paul’s visit to Rome as afex Evangelii, so far as his present work was οοποετπεά.--- διεμαρτύρω: the word seems to imply the thoroughness of the Apostle’s tes- timony, and to show that his method of bearing it was approved by his Lord, see on ii. 40.