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τῆς µετανοίας ἔργα πράσσοντας.
συλλαβόμενοι ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἐπειρῶντο διαχειρίσασθαι.
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21. ἕνεκα τούτων µε] οἱ ᾿Ιουδαῖοι
22. ἐπικουρίας
οὖν τυχὼν THs? παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἄχρι τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης ἕστηκα,
μαρτυρούμενος μικρῷ τε καὶ µεγάλῳ, οὐδὲν ἐκτὸς λέγων ὧν τε οἱ
1 The art. before lovS. om. S*BL 13, 61, 105, so Tisch., R.V., Hilgenfeld, W.H., Blass, Weiss, Wendt, but Lach. and Meyer follow T.R. After συλλ. Tisch., Hilgenfeld, with cE, Vulg. Chron. reads οντα, but the word may easily have been added to express more clearly that the temple, xxi. 30, was the place where they found Paul, not where they sought to kill him (Wendt).
2 For παρα SABE, Chron. read απο, so Tisch., R.V., W.H., Hilgenfeld, Blass»
Weiss, Wendt. τνροµενος.
classical Greek ποιεῖν is more frequent de inhonestis, cf. Xen., Mem.., iii., 9, 4, see Grimm, sub ου.
Ver. 21.—€vexa τούτων: because I preached to Jews and Gentiles alike, proclaiming one Gospel to both, and placing both on an equality before God (not for profaning the Temple), cf. xxi. 28. On ἕνεκα see Blass, Gram., p. 21. This Attic form of the word is read here by all authorities, and Blass notes it as characteristic of the literary style of this address before Agrippa, see above on ver. 4.--συλλαβόμενοι, i. 16, xii. 3. So also in each of the Gospels in the active voice, of a violent arrest; in passive see above, xxiii. 27, and frequent in same sense in LXX, and 1 and 2 Μλαος.--ἐπειρῶντο: here only in N.T. in middle, but see critical note on ix. 26, Cf. 1 Macc. xii. 10, 2 Macc. x. 12, 3 Macc. i. 25, ii. 32, 4 Macc. xii. 3. Imperfect because the attempt was not actually πιαάε.---διαχειρ., see on v. 30. The whole description ranks as a sum- mary without giving all the details of the events which led up to the Apostle’s im- prisonment.
Ver. 22. émuxouplas ... τῆς παρὰ (ἀπὸ) Θεοῦ: “the help that is from God,” R.V., t.¢., the help which cometh from God only; only here in N.T., cf. Wisdom xiii. 18 (ἐμπειρίας, 32), for the use of the same phrase cf. instances in Wetstein from Polybius; the word is found in Josephus, but also frequently in classical Greek, of succour against {0ε8.---τυχὼν : no idea of chance, cf. 2 Tim. ii. 10; the aid was divine, not human.—oty, see Wendt, and references, Blass, Gram., p. 267, Winer- Moulton, liii., το, 4.---ἕἔστηκα : sto saluus, Bengel, after these repeated dangers. The A.V. hardly gives the force of the word; it is a Pauline expres- sion, cf. Ephes. vi. 13, 14, Col. iv. 12, so Knabenbauer, subststo incolumis.—pap-
SABHLP, Chrys., so Tisch. and authorities in ver. 21, read pap-
Tupovpevos: ‘‘testifying,” A.V., yet Paptupdpevos, sce critical note, would rather signify “‘ testifying,”’ so R.V., see on vi. 3. Grimm-Thayer, if the reading in T.R. is retained, evidently considers that it should be rendered as passive, “testified to both by small and great’’. But µαρτυρόµενος marks most appropri- ately the office of bearing testimony to which Paul was appointed.—pixp@ τε καὶ µεγάλῳ: if taken to mean “ both small and great,’’ the words would have a €pecial force in thus being spoken before Festus and Agrippa, but if = young and old, {.ε., before all men, cf. viii. το, Heb. vili. 11 ; cf. Gen. xix. 4, 11, etc., but in Rev. xi. 18, xiii, 16, xix. 5, reference is made rather to rank than to age, and the latter meaning may well be included here; cf. Deut. i. 17, Job iii. 19, Wisd. vi. 7.--οὐδὲν ἐκτὸς A. ὧν τε οἱ wp... . µελλόντων = οὐδὲν ἐκτὸς τούτων a... ἐλάλησαν μέλλοντα, cf. Rev. xvii. 8 Simcox, Language of the N.T., p. 135. peddr. yly., cf. Luke xxi. 36; ἐκτὸς, cf. 1 Cor. xv. 27; the word is only used by St. Paul elsewhere in N.T. (except Matt. xxiii. 26), cf. 1 Kings x. 13, 2 Chron. ix. 12, xvii. 19.— ol wpod. ... καὶ M. : more naturally Moses and the prophets, Luke xvi. 29, 31, and cf. xxviii. 23, but Moses may have been mentioned to influence the Sadducean element in the audience: the historical Christ was always the subject of St. Paul’s preaching ‘“ Jesus is the Christ,” and the historical Christ was also the ideal Christ; cf. iii. 13, 1 Cor. xv. See on this verse critical note, and Wendt (1899), p. 397, note. ‘ Ver... 23. «lf = Heb. vii. 15, 2.¢., as is most certain from the authority of Scrip- ture, “how that the Christ,” R.V.— παθητὸς: “must suffer,” R.V. (“although is subject to suffering,”’ margin), cf. Vul- gate, passibilis (not patibilis); no question here of the abstract possibility of, or