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ΧΧΥΠ. τ. ἸΑΓΡΙΠΠΑΣ δὲ πρὸς τὸν Παῦλον ἔφη, Ἐπιτρέπεταί σοι
ς ‘ 1 - λ / υπερ σεαυτου εγειν.
χεῖρα, 2.
τότε 6 Παῦλος 2 ἀπελογεῖτο, ἐκτείνας τὴν Περὶ πάντων ὧν ἐγκαλοῦμαι ὑπὸ Ιουδαίων, βασιλεῦ
᾽Αγρίππα, ἤγημαι ἐμαυτὸν µακάριον ὃ µέλλων ἀπολογεῖσθαι ἐπὶ cod
σήµερον, 4. μάλιστα γνώστην ὄντα σε πάντων τῶν κατὰ ᾿Ιουδαίους
ἐθῶν τε καὶ ἵητημάτων Α: διὸ δέοµαί σου μακροθύµως ἀκοῦσαί µου.
Ίνπερ, so BLP, W.H., Weiss, but W.H. marg. have wept, so Tisch., Wendt undecided, but apparently preferring περι. :
2 After Πανλος Blass in B adds θαρρων και ev Tw αγιῳ πνευµατι παρακλησιν
λαβων with Syr., Harcl., mg.
3R.V. reads επι σου µελλων σηµερον απολογεισθαι, with SABC, Tisch., W.H.,
R.V., Weiss, Blass.
4 After ἵητηματων WCAC add επισταµενος, so Blass and Hilgenfeld to avoid the anacoluthon; for the same purpose after οντα σε, 6, 29, 31, insert ειδως, but neither part. is retained by W.H., R.V., Wendt, Weiss.
quently of Christ than the other Evan- gelists, see especially Wetstein, in loco. —davaxploews: here not in its strictly legal and judicial sense of a preliminary inquiry, but an inquiry into the case, cf. ver. 22 (iv. 9), with a view to sending a report to the emperor as judge, Renan, Saint Paul, p. 544, and Zockler, in loco. Festus knew what the charges were, but not their significance, and he hoped to obtain some definite information from Agrippa or Paul—he wanted something ἀσφαλές; Paul had contradicted the charge of treason, and what was left, ver. Ig, seemed full of obscurity and absurdity.
Ver. 27. ἄλογον, cf. Thuc., vi., 35, Xen., Ages., xi., 1 (elsewhere in N.T., 2 Pet. ii. 12, Jude ver. 10, cf. Wisd. xi. 15, 16, 3 Macc. v. 40 (A om.), 4 Macc. xiv. 14, 18). It would seem from the verse that the procurator was not bound to send the littere dimissorie (O. Holtz- mann).—mépaovra: for construction rh Heb. ii. 10, or the expression may be quite general “that any one sending,” εἰο.---σημᾶναι: here fer littevas signt- ficare, as in classical Greek (Wetstein). This decisive turn given to events by Paul’s appeal is regarded by Weizsacker (Apostolic Age, ii., 124, E.T.) as the most certain event in the whole history of the case; Paul as a prisoner could only be taken to Rome if he was to be brought before the emperor’s court, and this had to be done if he invoked such intervention. On Zeller’s and Weiz- sacker’s attempt to see in the appearance of Paul before Agrippa a mere repetition of the episode of our Lord before Annas a Spitta’s reply, Apostelgeschichte, p. 281.
CHAPTER XXVI.—Ver. 1. ῥἐπιτρέ- πεται͵, Burton, p. g, on “the aoristic present”. Agrippa as a king and as a guest presides ; and Paul addresses him- self specially to him, cf. vv. 2, 7, 13, 19, 273; ¢f. xxviii. 16, 1 Cor. xiv. 34, for the passive with infinitive, and for other instances of the word in the same sense as here xxi. 39, 40, xxvii. 3; the verb is similarly used in all of the Gospels (three times in Luke), and in 1 Cor. xvi. 7, 5 Tim. ii. 12, Heb. vi. 3.—éxretvas: not the same as in xii. 17, xiii. 16 ; herenot to ensure silence, but gestus est oratorius, cf. νετ. 29. — ἀπελογεῖτο, see above, xxiv. 10, although not formally on trial, the word shows that the Apostle was defending himself.
Ver. 2. ἐπὶ aod, cf. xxiv. 19.—éyxa- λοῦμαι, see on xix. 3δ.---ὑπὸ Ἰουδ.: ‘ by Jews” simply (cf. xxv. 10), and therefore he is glad to address one acquainted with Jewish customs, but see on ver. 4.— ἥγημαι ἐμαντὸν pax. : only here by Luke in this sense, but frequently so used by St. Paul in his Epistles eleven times, c/., e.g., Phil. iii. 7,1 Tim. vi. 1. St. Paul too commences with a “ captatio bene- volentiz,” “θεά absque adulatione,” Blass: “and yet had he been conscious of guilt, he should have- feared being tried in the presence of one who knew all the facts ; but this is a mark of a clear conscience, not to shrink from a judge who has an accurate knowledge of the circumstances, but even to rejoice and to call himself happy,” Chrys., Hom., lii.