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κληθέντος δὲ 1 αὐτοῦ, ἠρξατο
κατηγορεῖν ὁ Τέρτυλλος, λέγων, 3. Πολλῆς εἰρήνης τυγχάνοντες διὰ
σοῦ, καὶ κατορθωµά 3 ὢ ἐθ jtw διὰ TH 7 9 ρ ωρ. των Υένοµενων τῷ εὖὗνει τουτῷ ta της σης
προνοίας πάντη τε καὶ πανταχοῦ, ἀποδεχόμεθα, κράτιστε Φῆλιξ,
μετὰ πάσης εὐχαριστίας.
4. ἵνα δὲ μὴ ἐπὶ πλεῖόν ce® ἐγκόπτω,
1 αυτον om. B, so Weiss [W.H.], Wendt perhaps. 2xatop?. HLP; διορθ. SABE 13, 61, 137, 180; Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass,
Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.
8 For εγκοπτω SABIE have ενκοπτω, so Tisch., W.H., Weiss, Wendt, Hilgen-
feld (see Winer-Schmiedel, p. 54), Blass sim, Sah., Boh.), A* 13, 19, 31.
a kind of technical term to indicate lay- ing formal information before a judge, cf. Jos., Ant., xiv., 10, 8, in LXX, Esther, il., 22. Blass takes it here = χάρτην ἔδωκαν, see also Wetstein.
Ver. 2. ἤρξατο: he began with a captatio benevolentia after the usual ora- torical style, cf. Cicero, De Oratore, ii., 78, 79, on the exordium and its rules.— If obtaining such artificial support was not as Calvin calls it “signum male conscientiz,’’ it may well indicate the weakness of the Jews’ cause, and their determination to leave nothing untried against Paul.
Ver. 3. πολλῆς elp. τνγχ.: the gov- ernors specially prided themselves on keeping peace in their provinces (Wet- stein). On the phrase see 2 Macc. iv. 6, xiv. το.---κατορθωµάτων : “ very worthy deeds,’’ A.V., the word might mean “successes,” cf. Polyb.,i., 19, 12, or it might mean recte facta, cf. Cic., De Fin., iii., 14 (see also in Wetstein; the word is found in 3 Macc. iii. 23, R); but διορθώµατα, see critical note, in Arist., Plut. = corrections, re- forms (cf. R.V.), so διόρθωσις in Polyb., Vulgate, multa corrigantur. In LXX διορθοῦν is used of amending, Jer. vii. 3, 5.---προνοίας: foresight, cf. Rom. xiii. 14, nowhere else in N.T.; cf. for a close parallel to its use here 2 Macc. iv. 6, referred to above (Lumby). It is possible that the word may bea further proof of the sycophancy of the orator; twice the Latin providentia, A. and R.V. “ provi- dence,’’ was used of the emperors on coins, and also of the gods (Humphry on R.V.), “Που vocabulum szpe diis tribu- erunt,” Bengel, in loco.—mwdvrn τε καὶ πανταχοῦ ἀποδεχ., so A. and R.V., ‘non in os solum laudamus ”’ (Wetstein) ; but Meyer joins πάν. τε κ. παντ. with what precedes (Lach.), and in this he is followed by Weiss, Wendt, Page and
reads κοπτω (fatigans, Syrutr.; molestus
Blass. For similar phrases in Plato, Artistotle, Philo, Josephus, see Wetstein. πάντῃ: only here in N.T., but cf. Ec- clus. 1. 22, 3 Macc. iv. 1, cf. Friedrich, Ῥ. 6, on Luke’s fondness for was and kindred words.—r@ ἔθνει τούτῳ, see above on ver, 1 and also νετ. ro. If he had been a Jew Wetstein thinks that he would have said τῷ ἔθνει τῷ ἡμετέρῳ, but see Blass, in loco, on ἔθνος ‘in ser- mone elegantiore et coram alienigenis”’. —amod.: only in Luke and Acts; for its meaning here cf. ii. 41, 1 Macc. ix. 71 (5 al.), so in classical Greek.—evdy.: except Rev. iv. 9, vii. 12, elsewhere in N.T.onlyin St. Paul’s Epistles (frequent) ; the word is also found in Esth. (LXX) viii. 13, Ecclus. xxxvii. τι, Wisd. xvi. 28, 2 Macc, ii. 27, and for other references see Kennedy, Sources of N.T. Greek, p. 73, and Grimm-Thayer, sub v. —There was very little, if anything, to praise in the administration of Felix, but Tertullus fastened on the fact of his suppression of the bands of robbers who had infested the country, Jos., Β.Υ., ii., 13, 2, Ant., xx., 8, 5, ‘“‘ipse tamen his omnibus erat nocentior’’ (Wetstein). His severity and cruelty was so great that he only added fuel to the flame of outrage and sedition, Jos., Amt., xx., 8, 6, B.F., ii., 13, 6, whilst he did not hesitate to employ the Sicarii to get rid of Jonathan the high priest who urged him to be more worthy of his office. In the rule of Felix Schirer sees the turning- point in the drama which opened with the death of Herod and terminated with the bloody conflict of a.p. Το. The uprisings of the people under his pre- decessors had been isolated and occa- sional; under him rebellion became permanent. And no wonder when we consider the picture of the public and private life of the man drawn by the hand of the Roman historian, and the fact that