pévou, λοιπὸν περιῃρεῖτο πᾶσα ἐλπὶς τοῦ σώζεσθαι ἡμᾶς. πολλῆς δὲ] ἀσιτίας ὑπαρχούσης, τότε σταθεὶς ὁ
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αὐτῶν εἶπεν, Ἔδει µέν, © ἄνδρες, πειθαρχήσαντάς por μὴ ἀνάγεσθαι ἀπὸ τῆς Κρήτης, κερδῆσαί τε τὴν ὕβριν ταύτην καὶ τὴν ζημίαν.
| For δε NABC have τε, so Tisch., W.H., Blass, R.V., Hilg., Weiss, Wendt.
λοιπὸν (cf. Matt. xxvi. 45), “now,” R.V., jam, Blass ; often =48n, L. and S.; others render it: for the future (2 Tim. iv. 8), finally, at Ἰαδί.--περιῃρεῖτο: “was gradually taken away,’ Ramsay, “imperf. quod in dies magis,” Blass ; Page renders “‘was being gradually stripped from us,” a very vivid word, cf. 2°Cor iis 26, Περ. κ. 2x (ver. 4ο, see below), and its use in LXX and Psalms of Solomon, ii. 22; cf. Westcott’s note on Heb., i.c., but on the other hand Blass, in loco, regards the force of περί _as lost in the wordin N.T» J. Smith (so Breusing) sees in the expression more than the hopelessness arising from the force of the storm—we have also to consider the fact that they could not see their course, and the increasing leakage of the vessel.
Ver. 21. δέ: if we read τε, see critical note, the word closely connects what follows as the result of the hopelessness. —aroAAjjs δὲ (τε) ἀσιτίας ὑπαρχ.: “and when they had been long without food,” R.V.; “abstinence” A.V. and Tyndale, “fasting” in Wycl., Rhem., imply rather a voluntary refraining which is not in the ‘Greek; disinclination for food may have resulted from their anxiety (Humphry), and to the same effect Breusing, Goerne, “and little heart being left for food,” Rendall. But the storm may also have prevented the preparation of food (so Smith, Ramsay, Page, Farrar); the for- mer gives instances to show that ἀσιτία was one of the most frequent concomit- ants of heavy gales, owing to the im- possibility of cooking food, and to the destruction of provisions by leakage. ἀσιτίας, see below, ver. 33, for the adjec- tive: both noun and adjective peculiar to St. Luke, and much employed in medical language, both so noted by Hobart and Zahn, the noun often meaning “want of appetite,” see instances in Hobart, p. 276, Hipp., Galen, Aret. The word was no doubt similarly used in classical Greek, so in Jos., but cf. the striking parallel in ver. 33 in medical phraseology. For the genitive absolute cf. locutiones Lucane (Klostermann, p. 53), xv. 7, xix. 40, xxi. -40, xxiii. 10, Felten, Zockler, Bethge
(and so Wendt, 1888, but cf. p. 410 (1899)), tightly refuse to regard vv. 2r- 26 or ver. ΙΟ as interpolations in the “We” section, or a “ vaticinium post eventum,” and no one has contended more forcibly than Weizsacker that the narrative is to be taken as an indivisible whole, and that it is impossible to dis- entangle the mere history of travel from it, or to strip away the miraculous additions, see especially Apostolic Age, li., pp. 126, 127, Ε.Τ.- τότε: in this State of things, at this juncture,— hungry, and thirsty, and their soul faint- ing in them; cf. xxviii. 1, so also in classical Greek.—ora@els ὁ Π. ἐν µέσῳ αὐτῶν, cf. i. 15, ii. 14, xvii. 22: vividness and solemnity of the scene (αὐτῶν, not ἡμῶν), characteristically marked by Luke; Mr. Page well says that it is impossible not to recall Horace, Od., iii., 3, 1, “ vir justus et propositi tenax,” unmoved amidst the storms “ inquieti Αάτία ”.— ἔδει μὲν : antithesis, not strictly expressed. +++ καὶ τὰ viv, ver. 22, “ modestiam habet,” Bengel. For µέν answered not by δέ, but occasionally by other particles, as here by καί, cf. Luke xxii. 22, Acts iv. 16; see Simcox, Language of the Ν.Τ., p. 168, and for τὰ viv, see iv. 29, ν. 38, xvii. 30, xx. 32, and note on p. 135. On the imperfect ἔδει cf. Burton, p. 14; Winer-Moulton, xli., 2.—® ἄνδρες: “gentlemen,” “vir: quos decet virtus,”’ Bengel, the word may thus mark St Paul’s courtesy, and also his firmness; in counsel, ver. 1Ο, he had been prudent and confident ; in danger he was equally so; cf. especially Weizsacker, u. s.— πειθαρχ.: only in Acts in N.T., v. 29, 32, except once again as used by St. Paul, Tit. iii. 1.—avdy., see above, xiii. 13, and Blass, in loco, on the tense.— κερδήσαι: “and have gotten this injury and loss,” R.V., carrying on py; Page on the other hand prefers the combination ἔδει τε κερδῆσαι (“hoc non pendet a μή,” Bengel), t.e., you ought not to have put to sea, and (you ought by so not putting to sea) to have gained this loss, i.¢., not suffered it; with nouns signifying loss, injury, the verb κερδαίνειν is used of the gain arising from shunning or escap-