Ver. 26. κρατίστῳ, see note on i. 1.— χαίρειν (λεγει or κελεύει), cf. xv. 23.
Ver. 27. ἄνδρα, not ἄνθρωπον: Ben- gel and Wendt take the word to indicate a certain degree of respect.—ovAX. : used in various senses, but in all four Gospels of the capture of Jesus, and in Luke, where the word is frequent, often of the capture of prisoners, Acts i. 16, xii. 3, xxvi. 21, Luke xxii. 54 (Plummer) so in LXX.—péddovra ava. : ‘was about to be killed,’? R.V.—émioras: the word seems
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ἐστι. 28. βουλόμενος δὲἸ γνῶναι τὴν αἰτίαν δι ἣν ἐνεκάλουν αὐτῷ,
κατήγαγον αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ συνέδριον αὐτῶν : 29. ὃν εὗρον ἐγκαλούμενον περὶ ” ζητημάτων τοῦ νόµου αὐτῶν, μηδὲν δὲ ἄξιον θανάτου ἢ δεσμῶν ἔγκλημα έχοντα. 30. µηνυθείσης δέ µοι ἐπιβουλῆς εἰς τὸν ἄνδρα μέλλειν ὃ ἔσεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν Ιουδαίων, ἐξαυτῆς ἔπεμψα πρὸς σέ, παραγ- γείλας καὶ τοῖς κατηγόροις λέγειν" τὰ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπὶ σοῦ.ὃ "Εῤῥωσο.
} επιγνωναι SAB 13, other authorities as in ver. 27, so also in R.V. and Wendt. κατηγαγον .. . αντων B* 61 om. [W.H.], R.V. marg. om.
* {nTnpaTwv, Blass in B om. (Gig.); περι του νοµου Μωνσεως και Inoov τινος, 50 Blass in β, with 137, Gig., Syr. H. mg.; B text continues: µηδεν δε αξιον θανατου πρασσοντα (Gig.), εξηγαγον αντον podts τῃ Bia, 137, Syr. H. mg. (Gig.), so Hilgenfeld.
ἆμελλειν om. ΔΑΒΕ, 5ο R.V., W.H., Weiss, Wendt, Blass. υπο των |. om. ABE, and other authorities as above. εξαντης BHLP, Syr. Pesh., Sah., Boh., so
V.H., Blass, Weiss, Wendt; but Lach., Tisch. read εξ αντων with SAE, Syr. Η., Arm.
‘ra προς αυτον, om. τα B, Syr. Pesh., Arm., so W.H., R.V., Weiss. For the three words Lach., Tisch., with ΝΑ 13, 40, Vulg., read αυτους, whilst EHP insert ta before προς avrov (not seeing that the phrase was taken as in xix. 38); see Weiss, Afostelgeschichte, p. 37. Blass in B text (Gig.) reads (instead of λεγειν
« « « σου) εκει ερχεσθαι προς THY OHV διαγνωσιν. 5 eppwoo om. AB 13, Sah., Boh., Aethro., Gig., Tisch., W.H., Weiss, R.V. in text;
Blass brackets in B ; NEL d, Syrr. P. Η.,
ερρωσθε, xv. 29.
to intimate that he was ready at the right moment to rescue the prisoner.— τῷ στρατ.: “with the soldiers,” R.V., those under his οοπιπ]απά.---ἐξειλόμην, vii. το.---μαθὼν ὅτι Ῥ.: “qua ratione id compererit, tacere satius erat,’’ Blass. The chiliarch wishes to put the best interpretation on his own conduct after his hastiness in xxi. 33, xxii. 24, see reading in B text. Overbeck and Wendt (and even Zéckler) defend the chiliarch from a crafty misrepresentation, and com- pare the condensed explanation of the letter and the facts given in the narrative to the different accounts of Saul’s conver- sion, but the chiliarch had a motive for dissembling his real part in the transac- tion, vis., fear of punishment.
Ver. 28. δέ: if we read re Weiss regards it as closely connecting the wish of the chiliarch with the previous rescue affected by him, and as hoping to veil his conduct in the interim which was so open to censure.—évexd- λουν αὐτῷ, xix. 38, with dative of the person as here, and in classical Greek, cf. Ecclus. xlvi. 19. In N.T. only in Luke and Paul, cf. Simcox, Language of the N.T., p. 148.—In the letter of Lysias Hilgenfeld omits vv. 28, 29, as an addition of the ‘‘ author to Theophilus”. Vv. 26, 30, are quite sufficient, he thinks,
Arm., Aethpp. retain, so Hilg.; HP read
for ‘‘military brevity,’ whilst ver. 28 could not have been written by Lysias since he would have written an untruth. But it is quite conceivable that the Roman would not only try to conceal his previous hastiness, but to commend himself to the governor as the protector of a fellow-citizen. Spitta omits ver. 28 in the letter, and Jiingst also ver. 29. But Jingst equally with Hilgenfeld de- clines to omit the whole letter as Clemen proposes.