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Φήλικος δέσµιος, 15. περὶ
4. , > ε , οὗ, γενομένου µου εἰς Ιεροσόλυμα.
< ~ 4 ~ ἐνεφάνισαν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ ot πρεσβύτεροι τῶν Ιουδαίων, αἰτού-
~ , µενοι κατ’ αὐτοῦ] δίκην: 16. πρὸς οὓς ἀπεκρίθην, ὅτι οὔκ εστιν ἔθος.
[ή /΄ [ή Ῥωμαίοις χαρίζεσθαί τινα ἄνθρωπον 3 εἰς ἀπώλειαν, πρὶν ἢ ὁ κατη-
γορούµενος κατὰ πρόσωπον Exot τοὺς κατηγόρους, τόπον τε ἀπολογίας
λάβοι περὶ τοῦ ἐγκλήματος.
17. συνελθόντων οὖν ὃ αὐτῶν ἐνθάδε,
ἀναβολὴν µηδεµίαν ποιησάµενος, TH ἑξῆς καθίσας ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος.
ἐκέλευσα ἀχθῆναι τὸν ἄνδρα:
18. περὶ οὗ σταθέντες ot κατήγοροι
, ιά οὐδεμίαν αἰτίαν ΄ ἐπέφερον ὧν ὑπενόουν ἐγώ" 19. ἵητήματα δέ τινα.
ν a asf 5 5 , 5 x ή ‘ , περι της LoLas εισιοαιµονιας ειχον προς αυτον, και περι τινος
1 For δικην SABC read καταδικην, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Blass. Meyer explains καταδ. as an interpretation of δικην, but more probably καταδ. was altered into δικην on account of νετ. 3 (Wendt).
2 1g απωλ. om. SABCE, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, but retained by: Blass, Hilg., with HLP, Syr. P. and H., Chrys., Gig.
3 αντων om. B 40, so Weiss, W.H., Blass in B text; retained by Lach., Tisch.,
R.V., Hilg.; Wendt doubtful.
4 For επεφερον NABCEL 13, 40, 61, Tisch., W.H., Weiss, Wendt, Blass, Hil- genfeld, R.V. read εφερον. At end of verse $QcBE 61, 100, add πονηρων, so R.V.,. Weiss, W.H. text, Blass; AC read πονηραν, so Lach., Tisch., Hilgenfeld, W.H.
margin; 39Ο’ read πονηρα.
speaks of Drusilla as a worthy sister of Bernice: he might have said the same of the other sister, Mariamne, since she too left her husband for the wealth ot Demetrius, the Jewish Alabarch of Alex- andria, Jos., Ant., xx.,7,3.—aomacdépevot, see critical note. No doubt an official visit of congratulation paid by Agrippa as a Roman vassal upon the procurator’s entry on his office. The future participle makes the sense quite easy, but if we read the aorist it looks as if Agrippa and Bernice had previously saluted Felix, and afterwards came to his official residence, Czesarea. Rendall includes in κατήντησαν not only the notion of ar- rival but also of settling down for a stay short or long: ‘‘came to stay at Caesarea and saluted Felix”’ (aorist), but see Sim- cox, Language of the N. Τ., p. 125. Ver. 14. ἀνέθετο: only in Luke and Paul, cf. Gal. ii. 2. ‘‘ Laid Paul’s case before the king,” R.V., cf. 2 Macc. iii. 9, and instances in Wetstein, Gal. ii. 2. In the middle voice the idea is that of relating with a view to consulting, so here (cf. vv. 20, 26, Lightfoot on Gal. ii. 2); it was natural for Festus thus to consult Agrippa, see above on ver. 13. Ver. 15. ἀρχ. καὶ ot πρεσβ., see on νετ. 2.---ἐνεφάνισαν, see νετ. 21.---δίκην, see critical note. If we read καταδίκην = ‘sentence,’ R.V., 1.ε., of condemna-
tion; LXX, Symm., Ps. Ixxxix. 3, Wisd. xii. 27; so in Polyb., xxvi., 5, 1.
Ver. 16. ᾖἔθος, see vi. 14.—xapit.,. Ῥ. 489.—mptv ἢ - . « ἔχοι, cf. Luke li. 26, the only two passages where a finite verb occurs after πρίν in Ν. Τ., see further Burton, pp. 52, 129, 133, and Plummer, Luke, 0. c.—kata πρόσωπον.. see on ili. 13.- τόπον: ‘‘ opportunity,” Rom. xv. 23, Ephes. iv. 27, Heb. xii. 17, Ecclus. iv. 5, cf. Jos., Ant., xvi., 8, 5 (Polyb., i., 88, 2).
Ver. 17. avaB. µηδ. ποιησάµενος, xxiv. 22, for the phrase see Thuc., i1., 42; Plut., Camill., 35, and Wetstein, tn loco.
Ver. 18. οὐδ. αἰτίαν ἐπέφ.: classical, cf. Thuc., v., 76; Herod., Ι., 26, so in Polyb. and Jos., but see critical note.— αἰτίαν: criminis delatio, accusatio, and so in ver. 27; see for various meanings Grimm,sub υ.---ὑπενόουν: possibly he sup- posed that there were to be some charges. of political disturbance or sedition like that which had recently given rise to such bloody scenes and a conflict be- tween Greeks and Jews in the streets of Cesarea. St. Chrys., Hom., well em- phasises the way in which the charges against Paul had repeatedly broken down. ;