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22.1 ᾽Ακούσας δὲ ταῦτα 6 Φῆλιξ ἀνεβάλετο αὐτούς, ἀκριβέστερον
εἰδὼς τὰ περὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ, εἰπών, Ὅταν Λυσίας 6 χιλίαρχος καταβῇ,
διαγνώσοµαι τὰ καθ Spas
23. διαταξάµενός τε τῷ ἑκατοντάρχῃ
τηρεῖσθαι τὸν Παῦλον, ἔχειν τε ἄνεσιν, καὶ µηδένα κωλύειν τῶν ἰδίων
αὐτοῦ ὑπηρετεῖν ? ἢ προσέρχεσθαι αὐτῷ.
24. Μετὰ δὲ ἡμέρας τινὰς παραγενόµενος 6 HALE σὺν Δρουσίλλῃ 8 ‘ > a 34 > 5 , , ‘ a ‘ TH? γυναικὶ αὐτοῦ οὔσῃ ᾿Ιουδαίᾳ, µετεπέµψατο τὸν Παῦλον, καὶ
1 The words ακονσας Se tavta om.; ανεβαλ. δε αντ. ο Φ. with ΝΑΒΟΕ, Tisch.,
W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.
2 4 προσερχ. om. SABCE 13, 61, Vulg., Syr. Ῥ. and H., Boh., Arm., Tisch., R.V.,
and other authorities in ver. 22.
3 Instead of Τ.Ε. BC? 36, Syr. H. mg., Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss [Blass] have
τῃ ιδιᾳ yur. (om. αυτον).
T.R. as ΝΕ, ty γυναικι in C*HLP (Meyer, Hilgenfeld) ;
ΜΑ, 13, 18, 6, have ty ιδ. Ὑνν. αντον. At the beginning of verse Blass in β text after np. τινας reads Δρουσιλλα η γυνη του Φηλικος ουσα lovdara ηρωτα ιδειν τον
Παυλον και ακουσαι τον λογον.
βουλομενος ουν το ικανον ποιησαι αντῃ (Cassiod.
Compl., p. 205 (1402, Mign.) and Syr. H. mg.).
Isa. vi. 4). Farrar, St. Paul, ii., 328, thinks that he sees in this utterance some compunction on St. Paul’s part for his action in dividing the Sanhedrim, and for the tumult he had caused, but see above, p. 467.
Ver. 22. ἀνεβάλετο: ampliavit cos, a technical expression, only here in N. Τ., the judges were wont to say Amplius in cases where it was not possible to pass at once a judgment of condemnation or acquittal before further inquiry, Cic., In Verr., i., 20.---ἀκριβ.: “having more exact knowledge concerning the Way” than to be deceived by the misrepresenta- tion of the Jews; he may have learnt some details of the Christian sect during his years of office from his wife Drusilla, or possibly during his residence in Czesarea, where there was a Christian community and the home of Philip the Evangelist, and where Cornelius had been converted. This knowledge, the writer indicates, was the real reason: the reason which Felix alleged was that he required the evidence of Lysias in person. Wendt, Zéckler, Bethge, Nés- gen take the words to mean that the address of Paul had offended Felix’s more accurate knowledge, and on this account he put off any decision. On the comparative see Blass, Gram., p. 130.---τὰ περὶ: characteristic of Luke and Paul, see p. 4δΙ.--διαγ. τὰ καθ᾽ ὑμᾶς: “I will determine your matter,” R.V., cf. xxv. 21, and see above on ΧΧΗΙ. 15. τὰ καθ ὑμᾶς: probably refers to both accusers and accused. On τὰ before κατά characteristic of
Luke see instance in Moulton and Geden, and Hawkins, Hore Synoptice, Ρ. 38.
Ver. 23. τηρεῖσθαι: that he should he kept in charge as a prisoner; not middle as in A. V.—éxew τε ἄνεσιν: ‘and should have indulgence,” R.V., not “‘liberty,’’ A.V., word only elsewhere in Paulin, N.T., 2 Cor., di. 138, Wil. 5, Vill. 13, 3 \ Thess. depc7y εν αἶεο . Beclus, xxvi. 1Ο, Esd. iv. 62. From νετ. 27 it appears that the prisoner was still bound, but the indulgence involved a custodia liberior, and extended to food, and the visits of friends, and remission from the severer form of custody, cf. Jos., Ant., xviii., 6, 7, 10, where Agrippa has similar indulgence in his imprisonment at Rome, but is still chained.—pySéva κωλύειν τῶν ἰδίων, cf. iv. 23, Luke, Aristarchus, perhaps Trophimus, cf. Jos., Ant., xviii., u. s., for the same indulgence ; change of subject to centurion in κωλύειν.--ὕπη- ρετεῖν, xiii. 36, xx. 34.
Ver. 24. Δρονσίλλῃ: of the three daughters of Agrippa I. Drusilla was the youngest, her sisters being Bernice (see below) and Mariamne. Married, when about fourteen, to Azizus king of Emeza, she had been seduced from her husband by Felix, who had employed for his evil purpose a certain impostor and magician, Simon by name, Jos., Ant., xx., 7, 2. The account in Josephus implies that she was unhappy in her marriage with Azizus, and asserts that she was exposed on account of her beauty to the envious ill-treatment of her sister Bernice. She married Felix (‘‘trium reginarum mari-