471
a , A A πρὸ τοῦ ἐγγίσαι αὐτόν, ἔτοιμοί] ἐσμεν τοῦ ἀνελεῖν αὐτόν. 16. ἀκούσας
δὲ ὁ
εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὴν παρεμβολὴν ἀπήγγειλε τῷ Παύλῳ.
vids τῆς ἀδελφῆς Παύλου τὴν ἐνέδραν, παραγενόµενος καὶ
17. προσ-
καλεσάμενος δὲ ὁ Παῦλος ἕνα τῶν ἑκατοντάρχων, ἔφη, Tov νεανίαν
A“ > , Ν x Lf ” , =~ A τοῦτον ἀπάγαγε πρὸς τὸν Χιλίαρχον’ ἔχει γάρ τι ἀπαγγεῖλαι αὐτῷ.
18. 6 μὲν οὖν παραλαβὼν αὐτὸν ἤγαγε πρὸς τὸν Χιλίαρχον, καί
φησιν, Ὁ δέσµιος Παῦλος προσκαλεσάµενός µε ἠρώτησε τοῦτον τὸν
, A p' , ” ~ / νεανίαν ἀγαγεῖν πρὸς σέ, ἔχοντά τι λαλῆσαί σοι.
c
δὲ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτοῦ
19. ἐπιλαβόμενος
, Ale (5 , 2207 Β ὁ χΧιλίαρχος, καὶ ἀναχωρήσας κατ ἰδίαν, ἐπυν-
1 Blass in β reads εσοµεθα instead of εσµεν with Flor., and at end of verse εαν δεῃ και αποθανειν with 137, Syr. H. mg., Flor.
compare 1 Cor. iv. 18 (Burton).—8.ay. : “‘as though ye would judge of his case more exactly,” R.V., accurate cognoscere ; the word need not be used here in the forensic sense as in xxiv. 22 (xxv. 21), Grimm, Blass; the “inquiry” is ex- pressed by the usual word in ver. 20. The verb is used in 2 Macc. ix. 15.— πρὸ τοῦ ἐγγίσαι: so that the crime could not be imputed to the priests.— ἕτοιμοί ἐσμεν τοῦ: for genitive of the infinitive after a noun or an adjective, in Luke and Paul (1 Pet. iv. 17), (Viteau, u. s., p. 169, Burton, p. 158. In LXX, cf. Mich. vi. 8, Ezek. xxi. 10, 11 (15, 16), 1 Mace. iii. 58, v. 39, ΧΙ, 37.---ἀνελεῖν αὐτὸν, cf. Hackett’s note, which gives a formal justification from Philo for the assassination of apostates.
Ver. 16. 6 vids τῆς ἀδελφῆς: whether he and his mother lived in Jerusalem, as Ewald conjectured, we are not told. Probably not, as the mother is not other- wise mentioned. Paul’s nephew may have been a student in Jerusalem, as the Apostle had been in his earlier days. Edersheim, Fewish Social Life, p. 227, gives an interesting account of the way in which the young man as a member of the Pharisaic ‘‘Chabura,” or guild, might have gained his knowledge of the conspiracy. At the same time nothing is told us in the text, and we cannot wonder at the comment “quis is fuerit, unde rescierit, ignoratur” (Blass).— παραγεν.: “having come in upon them,” Κ.Υ. margin, ‘‘and he entered into the castle,” etc. παραγεν. is thoroughly Lucan, and often gives a graphic touch to the narrative, but it is doubtful whether we can press it as above, although the rendering is tempting.—amnyyere τῷ Π.: evidently Paul’s friends were allowed access to him, and amongst them we may well suppose that St. Luke himself
would have been included. On the different kinds of Roman custody see below, xxiv. 23, note.
Ver. 17. τὸν νεανίαν τοῦτον, see on vii. 58 and previous note above. The narrative gives the impression that he was quite a young man, if we look at his reception by the chiliarch and the charge given to him.
Ver. 18. 6 δέσµιος Π.: used by Paul five times of himself in his Epistles, here for the first time in Acts with reference
to him. Ver. 19. ἐπιλαβ.: “ut fiduciam adolescentis confirmaret,’’ Bengel, so
Knabenbauer; on ἐπιλ. see note, xvii. 19.—THs χειρὸς αὐτοῦ, cf. Luke viii. 54, Winer-Moulton, xxx. 8 d; see Calvin’s note on the humanitas (as he calls it) of the centurion in thus receiving the young man.—avay.: used also in xxvi. 31, but not by Luke in his Gospel, although found in the other Evangelists.—xar’ ἰδίαν ἐπυν.: ‘asked him privately,” R.V., as suggested by the order of the Greek.
Ver. 20. συνέθεντο, Luke xxii. 5, John ix. 22, so in classical Greek in middle, cf. 1 Sam. xxii. 13, Dan. (Th.) ii. Q.—Tov ἐρωτῆσαι: the word certainly points to a certain equality with the person asked (not αἰτέω), see above on ver. 15—but still a request, not a de- πιαπά.---μέλλοντες, see critical note; if plural, the clause intimates the pretext put forward by the conspirators; if singular, it is perhaps more in accor- dance with the deference of the youth, who would refer the control of the pro- ceedings to the chiliarch.