or command of the infinitive passive see Simcox, Language of the N. Τ., p. 121, and also Blass, Gram., p. 222.—€is τὴν τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ διάγνωσιν: “for the de- cision of the Emperor,” R.V., “the Au- gustus,” margin ; cf. xxiv. 22, and for the noun Wisd. iii. 1δ.---Σεβ.: here and in νετ. 25 rendered '' Emperor,” R.V.—the title Augustus, A.V., might lead to con- fusion. The Cesar Augustus in Luke ii. I was Octavian, upon whom the title of Augustus was first conferred, Suet., Aug., 7, B.C. 27. The title was inherited by his successors, and thus it is ascribed to Nero here and in ver. 25. The divine sacredness which the title seemed to confer (cf. its Greek form, and the remark of Dio Cassius, liii., 16, 18, that Augustus took the title as being himself something more than human) excited the scruples of Tiberius, but succeeding emperors appear to have adopted it without Πεβίίαίίοη.-- πέµψω, see critical notes; the reading ἀναπέμψω would mean, literally, ‘‘ till I should send him up,” 7.¢, to a higher authority, cf. Luke xxiii. 7, where it is used of “ re- ferring”’ to another jurisdiction, and in νν. 11, 15, of “sending back” (Philem. ver. 12); see Plummer’s note. For the use of this word in its technical sense of sending to a higher authority (as it is used in Plut., Phil., Jos., Polyb.) see further instances from ἵπ- scriptions, Deissmann, Neue Bibel- studien, ii., 56. The verb is only used by Luke and Paul.—Kaioapa: in N.T. the name is always official, never per- sonal. It was first assumed as an official title by Octavius, the nephew of Julius Czsar (see above), who doubtless took it on account of the fame of his uncle, and as a name not likely to be hated and despised by the Romans like that of ‘‘king’’. After the death of Gaius Cesar, the last of the Julian stock,
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