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διακοσίους, ἀπὸ τρίτης Spas τῆς νυκτός: 24.1 κτήνη τε παραστῆσαι, ἵνα ἐπιβιβάσαντες τὸν Παῦλον διασώσωσι πρὸς Φήλικα, τὸν ἡγεμόνα " 25. γράψας ἐπιστολὴν ? περιέχουσαν τὸν τύπον τοῦτον ' 26. Κλαύδιος
A , a , ε , ond , υσιας τῷ κρατιστῳ Όὖγεµονι PYALKL, χαιρειν.
27. τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον
συλληφθέντα ὑπὸ τῶν Ιουδαίων, καὶ μέλλοντα ἀναιρεῖσθαι bw αὐτῶν, ἐπιστὰς σὺν τῷ στρατεύµατι ὃ ἐξειλόμην αὐτόν, μαθὼν ὅτι Ῥωμαῖός
1 Τη β text Blass reads κτηνος, Ρατ.", Syrr. P. and H., Prov., and before διασωσωσι the words δια νυκτος, so Flor., Syr. H. mg. Belser approves as precise notes of exact
information.
Blass adds (so Hilg.) after τον ηγεµονα the words εις Καισ. with 137,
and continues εφοβηθη yap, py more αρπασαντες αντον οι lovdator αποκτεινωσιν, και αντος µεταξυ eykAnpa εχῃ ως χρηματα ειληφως, 137, Gig., Wer., Par.?, Vulgel.,
Syr. H. mg.
Ἄπεριεχουσαν, so Meyer, Blass, Hilgenfeld, with AHLP; but εχουσαν KBE 61, 137, so R.V., and other authorities as above.
3 εξειλαµην SABE, Tisch., W.H., Blass, Weiss. Instead of µαθων Blass in B reads (Gig.) βοωντα και λεγοντα εαντον ειναι Ρωμαιον.
Saint Paul, p. 532, Overbeck for various interpretations, and Winer -Schmiedel, p. 69. Areads δεξιοβόλους (Syr. Pesh. paculantes dextra, Ατε jaculatores), which would be a correct interpretation if we understood the word of javelin-throwers or slingers.—amwd τρίτης Spas: about nine in the evening; the journey was to commence from that time, so that by daybreak Paul would be in safety, «7. x. 30. The number of the escort was meant to guard against surprise.
Ver. 24. παραστῆσαι: depending on ειπεν, ver. 23; a change to indirect speech, 6). references in ver. 22.- κτήνη (κτάοµαι): jumenta, Vulgate, almost always in plural, property in general, herds or flocks, cattle; in LXX, where it is very trequent, and in N.T. it is used of beasts of burden or for riding, ¢f. Luke x. 34, Rev. xviii. 13, sometimes quite generally in LXX, as in 1 Cor. xv. 39.—émtB.: only in Luke and Acts in N.T., Luke x. 34, xix. 35, in each case in same sense; so in classical Greek and LXX. The reason why the plural κτήνη is used viz satis hls sas (Blass) ; the word has sometimes been taken to apply to the soldiers, as if they were all mounted, but taking the word in relation to Paul, one or more beasts might be required for relays or for baggage, so Weiss, Wendt, Hackett, or, as the prisoner was chained to a soldier, another κτῆνος would be required (Kuinoel, Εεἰίεπ).---διασώσωσι: five times in Acts, once in Luke’s Gos- pel, only twice elsewhere in N.T., ‘‘ut Ῥ. salvum perducerent,” Vulgate, fre- quent in LXX, cf. its use in Polyb. and Jos., see further on xxvii. 44.---Φήλικα, see ON xxiv. 3.--τὸν ἡγεμόνα: used ofa
leader of any kind, or of an emperor or king; in N.T. of the procurator, of Pilate, Felix, Festus, so by Josephus of Pilate, Ant., xviii., 3, 1, of governors more generally, Luke xxi. 12, 1 Pet. ii. 14, etc.
Ver. 25. περιέχουσαν, see critical note above.—rvmov: “form,” R.V., a précis or summary of the contents of a letter, 3 Macc. iii. 30. Such a letter would be called elogium, Alford, in loco, Renan, Saint Paul, p. 532. It is quite true that τύπος does not demand that the letter should have been given verbally, and in an oft-quoted passage, Plato, Polit., 3, Ῥ. 414, ἐν τύπῳ is contrasted with δι ἀκριβείας, but the letter bears the marks of genuineness, ¢.g., the part which Lysias claims to have played, and the expression ‘questions of their law” (see below). Moreover St. Luke might have easily learnt its contents, as there is reason for supposing that the letter would have been read in open court before Felix, as containing the prelimin- ary inquiry, and that a copy may have peen given to Paul after his appeal, see Bethge, Die Paulinischen Reden Apos- tergeschichte, p. 226.