Ver. 21. ἐνεδρ.: only in Luke in N.T., Luke xi. 54, with the accusative also in classical Greek, and several times in LXX, 1 Macc. v. 4, Jos., Ant., v., 2, 12.---καὶ viv, see ON ΧΧ. 22,—mpoodex. :
472
θάνετο, Τί ἐστιν ὃ ἔχεις ἀπαγγεῖλαί por; 20. εἶπε δέ, Ὅτι οἱ
᾽Ιουδαῖοι συνέθεντο τοῦ ἐρωτῆσαί σε, ὅπως αὔριον eis τὸ συνέδριον
καταγάγης τὸν Παῦλον, ὡς µέλλοντές 1 τι ἀκριβέστερον πυνθάνεσθαι
περὶ αὐτοῦ.
21. σὺ οὖν μὴ πεισθῆς αὐτοῖς' ἐνεδρεύουσι γὰρ αὐτὸν
ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες πλείους τεσσαράκοντα, οἵτινες ἀνεθεμάτισαν ἑαυτοὺς
Ul a , A a os aN > 5S A o , > μητε Φαγειν μητε πιειν εως ου AVEAWOLY αὐτόν * και νυν ετοιµ.οι εισι
, A x A 3 , προσδεχόµενοι τὴν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἐπαγγελίαν.
22. ὃ μὲν οὖν χιλίαρχος
ἀπέλυσε τὸν νεανίαν, παραγγείλας δενὶ ἐκλαλῆσαι ὅτι ταῦτα ΥΥ ῆ
ἐνεφάνισας πρός µε.
23. καὶ προσκαλεσάµενος” δύο τινὰς τῶν
ἑκατοντάρχων εἶπεν, Ἑτοιμάσατε στρατιώτας διακοσίους, ὅπως πορ-
ευθῶσιν ἕως Καισαρείας, καὶ ἰππεῖς ἑβδομήκοντα, καὶ δεξιολάβου ρ µήκοντα, ς
1 µελλοντες minscl. verss., so Blass, Hilg., with Gig., Flor. (as in νετ. 15); µελλων ABE, Boh., Aeth., Tisch., W.H., Weiss; µελλον, so Wendt, with ΝΑ 13,
50. TO συνεδρ.
2 SSB 13, 61, Tisch., W.H., Blass, Weiss, Wendt read τινας before δυο,
Blass
(so Flor.) brackets Stax. and και before ιππεις, and instead of εβδοµηκοντα he reads εκατον with 137, Flor., Syr. H. mg., Sah., so Hilg.
only once elsewhere in Acts, xxiv. 15, probably in same sense as here, so R.V. text. In the Gospels, the word is found once in Mark xv. 43 (= Luke xxiii. 51), and five times in Luke, four times trans- lated in R.V. as here; Luke ii. 25, 38, xii. 36, xxiii. 51, cf. also Tit. ii. 13, Jude ver. 21, and Wisd. xviii. 7, 2 Macc. viii. 11. In classical Greek two meanings as in N.T.: (1) to accept, receive favourably, (2) to wish for or expect a thing.—émway- γελίαν: only here in N.T. of a human promise, see above on i. 4, cf. 1 Esd. i. 7, Esther iv. 7, 1 Macc. x. 15.
Ver. 22. ἐκλαλῆσαι, Judith xi. 9 (but S al.), ‘‘to divulge,’ here only in N.T., but in classical Greek, and in Philo. As in i, 4, transition to oratio recta, cf. Luke v. 14, Mark vi. 9, etc., very common in Greek prose, Winer- Moulton, Ixiii., ii., 2, Blass, Gram., p. 280.
Ver. 23. Seecritical note; if we place τινάς before δύο, Blass, Weiss, Knaben bauer take it of two centurions whom he could specially trust, see their notes in loco, and Blass, Gram., p. 174. In Luke vii. το the order is different, Blass compares Herman, Vis., i., 4, 3, δύο tivés ἄνδρες (but see on the other hand Page’s note, and Wendt, edit. 1899).— ἑτοιμάσατε: here only in Acts, but frequent in Luke’s Gospel, more so than in Matthew or Mark, in John only twice. On the aorist imperfect see Winer-Moulton, xliii., 3, ‘‘have imme- diately . . . in readiness to march”’,—
στρατ. διακ.: milites gravis armature. Blass brackets the first διακ., and καὶ before ἰππεῖς, so that στρατ. includes under it both twaets and δεξιολάβους, see critical ποῖε.---δεξιολ.: apparently a special class of light-armed soldiers (javelin-throwers, Livy, xxii., 21, or slingers), Schurer, fewish People, div. i., vol. ii., p. 56, E.T., who says that this much only is certain. The word only occurs elsewhere twice, and that in later Greek literature of the seventh and tenth century (see references in Grimm- Thayer, sub v., and Meyer-Wendt, in loco), where they are distinguished from the τοξοφόροι and πελτασταί. Probably from δεξιός and λαμβάνω, grasping their weapons by the right hand, so here of those who carried their light weapon, a lance, in their right hand, Vulgate, lancearios. This is more probable than the derivation from λαβή, a sword-hilt, as if the word referred to sficulatores cum lanceis, who wore their swords fas- tened not on the left but on the right (so Ewald). Still more fanciful is the deriva- tion of Egli who accented thus δεξιο- λάβοι, and took the word to refer to those who were unable to use the right hand, Judg. iii. 15, xx. 16, so ‘‘left- handed” slingers. Others interpret as if the word meant military lictors who guarded captives bound by the right hand, but their large number here seems to conflict with such an interpretation (Grimm-Thayer), see the full notes of Meyer-Wendt, 1888, 1899, and cf, Renan,