or it may refer to entertainment in the house of a friend, cf. xxi. 16, and Philem., ver. 22. Lewin urges that although we can well understand that Paul’s friends would wish to entertain him, we have no evidence that the strict- ness of the military guard was thus far relaxed, and he also presses the fact that Suidas and Hesychius explain ξενία = κατάλυμα, καταγώγιον, as if it meant a place of sojourn for hire; see especially for the whole question Lewin, St. Paul, ii., 238; but see on the other hand Lightfoot, Philippians, p. 9, who lays stress on N.T. passages quoted above, and Grimm-Thayer, sub υ.---πλείονες: more than at the first time; Blass takes it as = plurimi, cf. ii. 40, xiii. 31.---ἐξετίθετο, cf. xi. 4, xviii. 26, and in vii. 21 in a different sense, nowhere else in
N.T. J. Weiss and Vogel both lay stress upon the recurrence of the word in the medical writer Dios-
corides; for other references, Grimm- Thayer, sub v. It is possible that the middle here, as in xi. 4, gives it a re- flexive force, the Apostle vindicates his own conduct (Rendall).—Meoéws : from the law of Moses, whose enemy he was represented to be, no less than from the Prophets.—melO@wv suavissime, Bengel ; on the conative present participle see Burton, p. 59, but here the word is used not simply de conatu; it refers here to the persuasive power of St. Paul’s words, although it does not say that his words resulted in conviction.—éa@mrd mpwt ἕως ἑσπέρας, cf. for similar expressions Exod. xviii. 13, 14 A, Job iv. 20 AS, and other passages where πρωΐθεν is similarly used (H. and Ἐ.). G
Ver. 24. οἱ μὲν . . . οἱ δὲ . . ., of. xiv. 4, xvii. 32, whether the verb means simply listened to what was said (Ren- dall), or simply denotes an attitude οἱ receptivity (Ndsgen), the fact that Paul addresses to both classes his final words indicates that the degree of belief to
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