Ver. 2. ἐνεφάνισαν, cf. xxiii. 15, xxiv. 1: here the context evidently implies that legal and formal information was laid against Paul.—If we read ot ἀρχ., cf. iv. 5. ot πρῶτοι: sometimes taken as = πρεσβ. in νετ. 15, cf. xxiii. 14, xxiv. 1, but in Luke xix. 47 we have ot apy. καὶ οἱ ypapp. καὶ of πρῶτοι τοῦ λαοῦ. The difference of designation seems to indi- cate that they were not identical with the πρεσβ., although perhaps including them, or possibly as their chief repre- sentatives: see also Plummer on Luke, l. ο. Blass seems to identify πρῶτοι with ἀρχιερεῖς, cf. iv. 5, ἄρχοντες.-- παρέκαλουν: the word and the tense mark their importunity.
Ver. 3. atroup., cf. νετ. 15. ‘‘ Postu- lantes gratiam non justitiam,’’ Corn
1—6,
ὁδόν.1
49h
4. & μὲν οὖν Φῆστος ἀπεκρίθη, τηρεῖσθαι τὸν Παῦλον 2 ἐν
Καισαρείᾳ, ἑαυτὸν δὲ µέλλειν ἐν τάχει ἐκπορεύεσθαι: 5. Οἱ οὖν
δυνατοὶ ἐν ὑμῖν, φησί, συγκαταβάντες, εἴ τί ἐστιν ὃ ἐν τῷ ἀνδρὶ τούτω, κατηγορείτωσαν αὐτοῦ. 6. Διατρίψας δὲ ἐν αὐτοῖς ἡμέρας " πλείους ἢ δέκα, καταβὰς eis Καισάρειαν, τῇ ἐπαύριον καθίσας ἐπὶ τοῦ
1 After οδον Syr. H. mg. adds illi qui votum fecerant se pro virili (facturos esse)
ut in manibus suis esset ; but not β text.
2 For ev Kato. SABCE 13, 4ο, 61, read εις, so Tisch., W.H., and authorities
above. tread Καισαριαν.
R.V., Weiss, Blass, Hilg. have Καισαρειαν with BC 13, 40; whilst W.H.
> Instead of Τ.Ε. (so Meyer) SABCE, Vulg., Boh., Arm., Lucif. read ev τῳ ανδρι ατοπον, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Blass, Hilg.
4R.V., following ABC, Vulg., Arm., reads ου πλειους οκτω η Sexa instead of T.R., so too W.H., Weiss, Wendt, Blass, Hilgenfeld. Other variations, e.g., 137,
Syr. P.H., Sah. omit ov πλειους.
See Alford’s note and Meyer-Wendt on probable
confusion between οκτω of the more ancient MSS. and η of later ones, the former η representing the numeral being absorbed in the second η.
a Lapide. — ἐνέδραν ποιοῦντες, not ποιήσοντες, they were making and contriving the ambush already (Al-
ford): priests and elders were willing as before to avail themselves of the assassin. — κατὰ τὴν ὁδόν, cf. Luke x. 4, and three times in Acts, viii. 36, xxvi. 13, nowhere else in Ν. Τ. Syr. H. mg. adds a distinct reference to the forty conspirators previously mentioned, xxiii. 12, but Blass omits in B text—doubtless, as he says, there were many others ready for the deed at the service of the Sanhe- drim.
Ver. 4. μὲν οὖν: no antithesis ex- pressed; but Rendall, Appendix on μὲν ovy, Acts, p. 162, holds that two phases of events are here contrasted: Festus refused to bring Paul away from Czsarea, but he undertook to hear the charges of the Jews there.—év Και., see critical note, perhaps here ets simply = ἐν, 5ο Blass, and Simcox, cf. Mark xiii. 9, Acts xix. 22. On the other hand cf. Weiss on the frequent force of eis peculiar to Acts, viii. 40, ix. 21 (where he reads eis), in- timating that Paul had been brought to Czsarea with the purpose that he should be kept there. The Jews had asked Festus ὅπως µεταπέμψ. a. eis Ἱ., but Festus intimates that the prisoner was in custody at Czsarea, and that as he was himself going there, the prisoner’s ac- cusers should go there also; in other words, he returns a refusal to their re- quest, cf. ver. 16.---ἓν τάχει, Luke xviii. 8, and three times in Acts, xii. 7, xxii. 18, not in the other Evangelists; Rom. xvi. 20, 1 Tim. iii. 14, Rev. i. 1, xxii. 6.—
ἐκπορ.: for the verb used absolutely as here cf. Luke iii. 7.
Ver. 5. φησί: change to the oratio recta, cf. i. 4. For other instances of the insertion of the single words ἔφη or φησίν, rare in N. T., see Simcox, Language of the New Testament, p. 200; cf. xxiii, 35, xxvi. 25, 1 Cor. vi. 16, 2 Cor. x. 10, Heb. viii. 5.—ot... δυνατοί: ‘“* Let them therefore, saith he, which are of power among οι,’ R.V.; not simply “‘which are able,” A.V., “qui in vobis potentes sunt,” Vulgate. The word may be used by Festus, because he was not acquainted with the Jewish official terms, or it may be used in a general way as in I σος. 26," In Ίος. Ε.Τ. πα δι we have the expression, #xov ᾿Ιουδαίων οἱ δυνατοί, cf. Thuc. i. 89, Polyb., ix., 23, 4; but in addition to this general use of the word Jos. frequently conjoins the ἀρχιερεῖς with the δυνατοί as members of the Sanhedrim, Schirer, fewish People, divin νο. p.'t78; Ε.Τ. Dhisvine terpretation of the word is more natural than that adopted by Bengel: *‘ qui valent ad iter faciendum: 7905 urbanum Festi respondentis Judzis molestiam viae cau- santibus;’’ for other explanations see Wendt-Meyer, in loco.—ovyxatafdvres: “90 down with me,” R.V., mecum ; only here in N. T., in LXX, Ps. xlviii’ 17, Wisd. x. 13, Dan. iii. 49 (Theod. iii. 49) = Song of the Three Children, ver. 26.— ἄτοπον, see critical note, and further on XXVill. 6.