Ῥώμην ἤλθομεν.
545
15. κἀκεῖθεν οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ἀκούσαντες τὰ περὶ ἡμῶν,
ἐξῆλθον] εἰς ἀπάντησιν ἡμῖν ἄχρις ᾽Αππίου Φόρου καὶ Τριῶν Ταβερνῶν -
οὓς ἰδὼν 6 Παῦλος, εὐχαριστήσας τῷ Ged, ἔλαβε θάρσος.
1 For εξηλθον (so Hilg.) A 17, 40, 61, R.V. have ηλθον; NBI so Tisch., W.H.
Blass, Wendt have ηλθαν.
mences, as it were, a new section of the Apostle’s work in the meeting with the brethren from Rome, the journey itself being regarded as completed in ver. 14 (Nosgen). If we read εἰσήλθομεν in ver. 16, see critical note, the word em- phasises apparently the actual entry into the city, ‘‘and when we entered into,” R.V., or it may simply take up the con- clusion of ver. 14 (so Wendt, who sees no . difficulty in the words). Ramsay, how- ever, draws another distinction between vv. 14 and 16 (to which Wendt (1899) refers, without endorsing it), and thinks that the double expression of arrival is due to the double meaning which the name of a city-state bears in Greek (94. Paul, pp. 111, 347, and Expositor, Jan., 1899); thus Rome might be restricted to the walls and buildings, or it might in- clude the whole ager Romanus, and so in ver. 14, “νε reached the State Rome,” we passed through two points in the ager Romanus, ver. 15, and in ver. 16, ‘we entered the (walls of) Rome”’.
Ver. 15. κἀκεῖθεν, see on xiv. 26. --τὰ περὶ ἡμῶν: phrase only in Luke znd Paul, see above on p. 481. The natural supposition is that there were two companies ; one met them in advance at Appii Forum, and the other nearer Rome at the Tres Tabernz.—eis ἀπάν- τησιν, cf. 1 Thess. iv. 17, Matt. xxv. 6, xxvii. 32 (W.H. margin), frequent in LXX, cf. Polyb., v., 26, 8. See Plump- tre’s note on the meeting of Cicero on this same road on his return from exile, Senate and people going out to meet him; for St. Paul’s friends in Rome see Lightfoot, Philippians, Introd., and p. 171 ff.; Sanday and Headlam, Romans, XVill., XXVil., xxxiv., xl., etc., Godet, L’Epitre aux Romains, ii., 599 ff. Aquila and Priscilla would be amongst them.— ᾽Αππίου Φόρον: situated on the great Appian Way, near the modern Treponti, 43 miles from Rome, Cic., Ad Att., ii., το; Hor., Sat., i., 5, 3, and for the distance, Itin. Ant., p. 107, Itin. Hier., p. 611 (see however on this point Encycl. Bibl., p. 267, 1899). Probably its name was due to Appius Claudius as the con- structor of this part of the road, Livy, ix., 29, and even in the time of St. Paul it