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τερον τὰ περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ ἀπολογοῦμαι: 11. δυναµένου σου 1 γνῶναι ὅτι οὐ πλείους εἰσί pot ἡμέραι ἢ δεκαδύο, dd js ἀνέβην προσκυνήσων
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1 For γνωναι SABE, Tisch., W.H., and other authorities in ver. 10 read em-
γγωναι. SABE, and other authorities above. above.
sion it may be possible to find a point of reconciliation between the divergencies resulting from a com- parision of Josephus and Tacitus. Felix may have held an office during the procuratorship of Cumanus which may have given him some judicial authority, although of course subordinate to the procurator, whilst on the other hand his tenure of such an office may well have prompted Jonathan’s request to the emperor that Felix should be sent as procurator (a request upon which both Schirer and Zahn lay such stress). The phrase πόλλα ἔτη may thus be further extended to include the tenure of this judicial office which Felix held earlier than 52 A.D., see also Turner, ‘Chronology,’ Hastings’ B.D., Ἱ., 418, 419, McGiffert, Apostolic Age, p. 358, O. Holtzmann, Neutest. Zeitgeschichte, p. 128, Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 313, Gil- bert, Student’s Life of Paul, p. 249 ff., 1δο9ο.--κριτὴν, see above, p. 480; on the addition δίκαιον, defended by St. Chrysostom (so E, Syr. H.), Blass remarks ‘‘continet adulationem quz Paulum parum deceat, quidquid dicit Chrysostomus”’.—r@ ἔθνει τούτῳ: St. Paul is speaking of the Jews as a nation in their political relationship, in addressing a Roman governor, not as God’s people, λαός.-- εὐθυμότερον: ad- verb only here in N.T., not in LXX, but in classical Greek, for the adjective see xxvii. 36 (2 Macc. xi. 26), and the verb εὐθυμεῖν, ver. 22.—St. Paul also begins with a captatio benevolentig, but one which contains nothing but the strict truth; he might fairly appeal to the judicial experience of Felix for the due understanding of his case.—7Ta περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ: for the phrase τὰ περί τινος as characteristic of St. Luke, three times in Gospel, eight times in Acts (six times in St. Paul’s Epistles and not in other Gospels, except Mark ν. 27, R.V.), cf. Hawkins, Hore Synoptice, p. 38, Fried- rich, p. ΙΟ (so Lekebusch and Zeller).— ἀπολογοῦμαι: only in Luke and Paul, Teuke; xi. Ir, αχὶς I4,, Acts’ xix. 33, xxv. She SNA. Le 2. 4. Κοπι π. το, 2 Ὅου πα, 10, each time in Acts, except xix. 38, with