22—26.
kA 9 a ‘ a 9 | 9 , NKOVOEY αὕτου περι της εἰς Χριστον πιστεως.
25. διαλεγομένου
δὲ > A x , Vr) ος ‘ ~ , 2 - ε αυτου περι δικαιοσύνης και εγκρατειας και του κριµατος “ του
μέλλοντος ἔσεσθαι, ἔμφοβος γενόμενος ὁ Φῆλιξ ἀπεκρίθη, Τὸ νῦν
ἔχον πορεύου”’ καιρὸν δὲ μεταλαβὼν µετακαλέσομαί σε: 26. apa
δὲ καὶ ἐλπίζων, ὅτι χρήματα δοθήσεται αὐτῷ ὑπὸ τοῦ Παύλου,ξ ὅπως
1 After Χριστον N*BEL 61, Vulg., Gig., Boh., Syr. H., Chrys. add Ίησουν, se Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, but om. by Blass in B text, so by Meyer.
2C 15, 31, 40, 180, Arm., Chrys. read του peAX. κριµατος, but text retained as in
T.R. by all edd.
εσεσθαι om. SABCE, W.H., R.V., Blass.
Instead of text Blass
in β, so Hilg. with E. Gig., Vulg. (Cassiod.) read καιρῳ δε επιτήδειῳ µετα-
καλεσοµαι σε.
5 οπως λυσῃ αυτον om. ΝΑΒΟΕ, Vulg., Syr. Ῥ. and H., Arm., Aethro., Tisch.,
W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilgenfeld. Instead of χαριτας S*ABC 13, 61, Vulg., Syr. P.
“secrete,” but not Blass in B.
After µεταπεμπ. Gig. adds
and H., Boh. read χαριτα, so Tisch., and authorities as above (see note below).
χαριν NEL.
tus,’”’ as Suetonius calls him, Claud., 28), and her son by him, Agrippa by name, perished under Titus in an eruption of Vesuvius, Jos., u.s. It has been some- times thought that his mother perished with him, but probably the words σὺν τῇ γυναικί in Josephus refer not to Drusilla, but to the wife of Agrippa (so Schiirer) ; ‘“Herod’’ (Headlam), Hastings’ B.D., The Herods (Farrar), p. 192 ff.—rq yvuv. αὐτοῦ, see critical note, the addition of ἰδίᾳ before γυν. (omit. αὐτοῦ) perhaps to emphasise that Drusilla, though a Jewess, was the wife of Felix, or it may point to the private and informal character of the interview, due to the request of Drusilla. Possibly both ἰδίᾳ and αὐτοῦ were additions to intimate that Drusilla was really the wife of Felix, but the article before γυναικί would have been sufficient to indicate this—otoy Ἰουδαίᾳ, cf. B text, which states how Felix acted thus to gratify Drusilla, who as a Jewess wished to hear Paul, as her brother Agrippa afterwards, cf. xxv. 22, see Knabenbauer, in loco. — µετεπέμψατο, see on ‘x. 5.— Xptorov, see critical note.
Ver. 25. περὶ δικαι.: Paul does not gratify the curiosity of Felix and Drusilla, but goes straight to the enforcement of those great moral conditions without which, both for Jew and Greek, what he had to say of the Messiahship of Jesus was unintelligible; how grievously Felix had failed in righteousness the events of his period of government proved, of. Tac., Ann., xii., 54, ‘‘cuncta male- facta sibi impune ratus,” through the evil influence of Pallas, Tac., Hist.,v., 9. --ἐγκρατ.: R.V. margin “self-control,”
Latin, temperantia, Vulgate, castitate. The presence of Drusilla by his side was in itself a proof how Felix had failed in this virtue also, ἐγκρ. being specially applicable to continence from sensual pleasures (Wetstein); opposed to it is ἀκρασία, 1 Cor. vii. 5 (= ἀκράτεια), “incontinence,” Arist., Eth., vil., 4, 2. In N.T., Gal. v. 23, 2 Pet. i. 6 (bis), cf. Tit. i. 8. The word is found in Eccle- Siast. xviii. 15 S, 30, 4 Macc. v. 34. St. Paul gives a double proof of his courage in reasoning thus not only before Felix but before his wife, for like another Herodias her resentment was to be feared. --τοῦ κρίµατος τοῦ µέλλ.: “the judg- ment to come,” R.V., preserving the force of the article omitted in all E.V. except Rhem.: ‘‘ ubi etiam illi, qui nunc judices sedent, judicandi erunt” (Wetstein),— ἐμφ. yev., see on x. 4, cf. the attitude of Antipas with regard to the Baptist, Mark vi. 30.—T6 viv ἔχον, cf. Tob. vii. 11 (B! ἔχων), and for instances in Greek writers see Wetstein.—xatpov δὲ µεταλ., c/. Polyb., ii., 16, 15. µεταλαβόντες καιρ. ἁρμόττοντα (Alford, Blass). So far as we know, no more convenient season ever came, see reading in B text.