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6 καὶ νῦν ἐπ᾽ ἐλπίδι τῆς 1 πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ἐπαγγελίας γενομένης ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἕστηκα κρινόµενος, 7. εἰς ἣν τὸ δωδεκάφυλον ἡμῶν ἐν ἐκτενείᾳ νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν λατρεῦον ἐλπίζει ” καταντῆσαι ' περὶ js
ἐλπίδος ἐγκαλοῦμαι, βασιλεῦ ᾽Αγρίππα, ὑπὸ τῶν Ιουδαίων. 2 f μ' ‘YP
8. τί;
1Έοτ προς SABE have εις; so Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Hil- genfeld; for T.R., cf. xiii. 32. After πατερας SABCE 61, Vulg., Syr. P.H., Boh. add npwv, so Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt, Hilg., but Blass brackets.
2For καταντησαι B has καταντησειν, so W.H. marg., Weiss, Bac. at end of
verse S$BCEI, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Blass, Weiss, Wendt, Hilg.
After vtro, των
is omitted by S}ABCEHLP, so by Tisch and other authorities above.
ὁσιότητος ἡγούμενος; and in Josephus it is frequently used of the public worship of God, worship in its external aspect, ο). Ants tke, το απ δν 4s) Ves XO, τ xii., 6,2. It was therefore a very natural word for St. Paul to use, and it is not necessary to suppose that he did so merely for the sake of Festus and the Romans (Blass), although the word was used of one mode of worship when con- trasted with another; see further Hatch, Essays in B.G., p. 55; Trench, Syno- nyms, i., p. 200, and Mayor on James i. 26.--Φαρισαῖος: emphatic at the end, expressing the “ straitest sect” by name, cf. Gal. i. 14, Phil. iii. 5, 6.
Ver. 6. καὶ νῦν: the expression does not indicate any contrast with ver. 4: this hope for which he stands to be judged is in full accord with his whole past life.—ém’ ἐλπίδι: phrase only found elsewhere in St. Paul’s Epistles, where it is frequent; Rom. viii. 20, 1 Cor. ix. 1ο, Tit. i. 2. A hope not merely of the resurrection of the dead, but of the Messiah’s kingdom with which the re- surrection was connected, as the context points to the national hope of Israel ; cf. Schirer, fewish People, div. ii., vol. ii., p- 175, E.T., see also pp. 137, 148, 149, and Edersheim, Fesus the Messiah, i., ΡΡ. 75, 79, on the strong bond of the common hope of Israel.—mpds τοὺς πατέρας, See critical note. With either preposition we have a Pauline expres- sion; on the force of εἷς see Alford and Weiss, in loco. If we read ἡμῶν after πατ. perhaps including Agrippa with himself as a Jew.
Ver. 7. ets fv: unto which promise, not spem (Grotius, Bengel), καταντῆσαι eis, cf. the same construction with the same verb, Phil. iii. 11, Ephes. iv. 13, only in Luke and Paul, but never by the former elsewhere in metaphorical sense; in classical Greek after verbs of hoping we should have had a future, but in N.T. generally aorist infinitive, Viteau, Le
Grec du Ν.Τ., p. 154 (1803).---τὸ δωδεκά- φυλον: here only in biblical Greek; per- haps used after the mention of the fathers, as the heads of the tribes; for the word cf. Prot. Fac., i., 3, Clem. Rom., Cor., lv., 6 (7. xxxi. 4), and Όγαο. Syb., Aads 6 δωδεκάφυλος; the expression was full of hope, and pointed to a na- tional reunion under the Messiah; for the intensity of this hope, and of the restoration of the tribes of Israel, see on iii. 21 (p. 115), and references in ver. 6, Edersheim, Fewish Social Life, p. 67, and especially Psalms of Solomon, xviii., 28, 30, 50.—év ἐκτενείᾳ, cf. xii. 5, 2 Macc. xiv. 38, 3 Macc. vi. 41, Jud. iv. 9 (twice ?); Cic., Ad Aft., x.,17, 1. See Hatch, 1. 5., p. 12.-- νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν, cf. xx. 31, also used by Paul; elsewhere in his Epistles five times, and once in Mark v. in genitive, 1 Thess. ii. 9, iii. 10; 2 Thess. 11. δι 1 Tim,iv.53 2¢lims 1.135 Markie 5. The precise phrase in the accusative also occurs in Luke ii. 37, Mark iv. 25.— Aatpevov, cf. Luke ii. 37, joined with νύκτα καὶ ἡμ.. as here, and in both places of the earnest prayer for the Messiah’s coming; same phrase elsewhere in N.T. only in Rev. vii. 15. For the force of the expression here and its relation to the Temple worship see Blass, in loco, and Schirer, fewish People, div. ii., vol. ii., Ῥ. 174, E.T.—#o Ἰονδ.: by Jews, O King! Agrippa knew that this hope, nowever misdirected, was the hope of every Israelite, and the Apostle lays stress upon the strange fact that Jews should thus persecute one who identified himself with their deepest and most en- during hopes.