Ver. 32. τῇ δὲ ἐπ.: not necessarily the morrow after they left Jerusalem, but the morrow after they arrived at Antipatris. In this interpretation διὰ νυκτὸς might be taken to mean by night in distinction to by day, so that they may have occupied two nights on the road, see Hackett’s note, in loco.— ἐάσαντες, Lucan, see xxvii. 32, 40; xxviii. 4.—els τὴν παρεµβολήν, here “to the castle’? A. and R.V., the barracks in Antonia.—twéorpeav, Lucan (Friedrich, p. 8), εί. 1. τὰ,
Ver. 33. οἵτινες: ‘‘and they when they...’ R.V., sc. iwaets.— -ἀναδόντες: not elsewhere in N.T., or in LXX in this sense, of delivering a letter. Zahn, following Hobart, sees in the phrase ἀναδ. τὴν ἐπιστολήν a phrase character- istic of a medical man, since Hippocrates, Epis., 1275, uses the verb instead of διδόναι or ἀποδιδόναι of a messenger delivering a letter, and thus shows a leaning common to the Greek medical writers of employing a verb alread
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XXIV. 1. ΜΕΤΑ δὲ πέντε ἡμέρας κατέβη 6 ἀρχιερεὺς “Avavias
μετὰ } τῶν πρεσβυτέρων καὶ ῥήτορος Τερτύλλου τινός, οἵτινες ἐνεφάνι-
1 Instead of των πρεσβ. NABE, Vulg., Sah., Syr. Η. read πρεσβ. τινων, so Tisch.,
W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Blass, Hilg. ;
familiar to them in a professional way ; but it must be remembered that both Polybius and Plutarch use the verb in a similar sense.
Ver. 34. ἀναγνοὺς, see reading in B text. ποίας: of what kind οἱ province, imperial or senatorial, as the governor desired to complete the report, cf. ver. 27. Blass takes it as simply = τίνος, as in
iv. 7.—It appears that during the first ©
century, although perhaps with varia- tions from time to time, Cilicia formed part of the great Roman province Syria- Cilicia-Phoenice, cf. ‘‘ Cilicia’ (Ramsay), Hastings’ B.D. A procurator of Judea like Felix was only subordinate to the governor of Syria inasmuch as the latter could bring his supreme power to bear in cases of necessity. The military com- mand and the independent jurisdiction of the procurator gave him practically sole power in all ordinary transactions, but the governor could take the superior command if he had reason to fear revo- lutionary or other serious difficulties. Schirer, Fewish People, div. i., vol. ii., p. 44 ff., Β.Τ.---ἐπαρχίας: the word is used to describe either a larger province, or an appendage to a larger province, as Judza was to that of Syria, see Schirer, u.s., and Grimm-Thayer, sub v.
Ver. 35. διακούσοµαί σον: “I will hear thy cause,’ R.V., the word implies a judicial hearing (cf. LXX, Deut. 1. 16 (Job ix. 33)), and so in classical Greek of hearing thoroughly. The word is used of a judicial hearing, Dio Cassius, xxxvi.,
53 (36), and Deissmann, Neue Bibelstu- -
dien, p. 57, gives examples ot similar usages on Egyptian papyri, 2nd to 3rd century A.D. — πραιτωρίῳφ: ‘“ palace,” R.V., Herod’s palace at Caesarea, where the procurator resided; it was not only a palace but also a fortress, and would contain a guard-room in which Paul would be confined. The word “palace” might well express its meaning in all the passages in which it occurs in the Gospels and Acts (but on Phil. i. 13 see Lightfoot, in loco). The Romans thus appropriated palaces already exist- ing, and formerly dwelt in by kings or princes, cf. Cicero, Verr., il., 5, 12, 30; Grimm-Thayer, sub v., and Lightfoot, On a Fresh Revision of N.T., p. 49. It
Meyer follows T.R.
seems from the context that the place could not have been far from the quarters occupied by Felix, since Paul could be easily sent for.—pvAdooer Gar: the kind of custodia depended on the procurator, and no doubt the elogium had its effect ; stodia satis levis (Blass).
' CHAPTER XXIV.—Ver. 1. πέντε ἡμέ- pas: most probably to be reckoned from the arrival of St. Paul at Czsarea, not from his apprehension in Jerusalem, or from his start from Jerusalem on the way to Cesarea. This latter view is that of Mr. Page, who takes οἱ μὲν οὖν, xxiii. 31, as answered by the δέ in this verse. But δέ, xxiii. 32, seems quite sufficiently to answer to μέν in the previous verse. Wendt reckons the days from the arrival of Paul at Cesarea, and regards the day of the arrival of the high priest as the fifth day, cf. Mark viii. 31. μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας = Matt. xvi. 21, Luke ix. 22, τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμ., see below, ver. 11. On the truthfulness of the narrative see also on same verse.— κατέβη: ‘came down,” R.V., {.ε., from the capital—’Avavlas, see on xxiii. 2. If we read πρεσ. τινῶν, see critical note, ‘‘ with certain elders,” R.V., {.ε., a depu- tation of the Sanhedrim.—pyropos Τ. τινὸς: ‘‘an orator, one Tertullus,”’ R.V., ῥη. here = causidicus, a barrister; here the prosecuting counsel συνήγορος (as opposed to σύνδικος the defendant’s advocate), see note, Blass, 21 loco. Τερτ.: Ά ΟΟΠΙΙΠΟΠ name, diminutive ot Tertius ; but it does not follow from the name that he was a Roman, as both Greeks and Jews often bore Roman names. Blass speaks of him as a Jew ‘‘erat Judzus et ipse’’ (so Ewald, Bethge), whilst Wendt (1899) inclines against this view, although if the words in ver. 6, κατὰ τὸν ἥμετερον νόµον, are retained, he admits that 1t would be correct; in addition to this the expression ἔθνος τοῦτο, ver. 3, seems in Wendt’s view to indicate that the speaker was not a Jew (so too Wet- stein). Tertullus was apparently one of the class of hired pleaders, often employed in the provinces by those who were themselves ignorant of Roman law. The trial may have been conducted in Greek, Lewin, St. Paul, ii., 684, Felten, in loco. —tvehavioav, cf. xxv. 2, 15, the verb appears to be used in these passages as