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30.) Ἔμεινε δὲ 6 Παῦλος διετίαν ὅλην ἐν ἰδίῳ µισθώµατι, καὶ
ἀπεδέχετο πάντας τοὺς εἰσπορευομένους 3 πρὸς αὐτόν, 31. κηρύσσων
1 For εμεινε (Lach., Blass,
Hilg.) S*B 13, 61, Tisch., W.H., R.V., Wendt, Weiss
have ενεµεινε; Blass in B has µενων with Par. ο M.om. W.H., R.V., Weiss (not Blass, Hilg.), cf. αντον for τον Π. in ver. 17, R.V., W.H.
2 After προς αυτον 137 Syr. H. ο”, Gig., Par. add Ίουδαιους τε και Ἑλληνας ex- planatory of παντας, so Blass in β text, Hilg. ; Blass also adds και διελεγετο προς before the inserted words just mentioned, with Gig., Par. ἈΧριστου om. by Tisch.,
Hilg., with ΝΑ Syr. H.
_dxovcovrat . . + &ka@\VTwas—the word of God was heard and welcomed, and that word was not bound, see the sug- gestive remarks of Bethge, p. 335, and Zockler on ver. 31.
Ver. 29. See critical ποίε.----συζήτησιν, γίχα, Blass; possibly this may have helped to delay the Apostle’s trial, as apparently some of the Jews would not have moved in the matter.
Ver. 30. ἔμεινε δὲ: Blass (so also Hackett, Lekebusch) makes the impor- tant remark that the aorist shows that Paul’s condition was changed after the two years, cf. ἐκάθισε, xviii. 11 (see also Burton, pp. 19, 20). When, therefore, Luke wrote his history, the inference is that the Apostle had been liberated either from prison or by death. Blass indicates another change, viz., that he may have been removed into the pre- torium, and that his trial was just coming on.—idiw µισθ., see above on ver. 23. That the Apostle should have been able to hire a house at his own expense re- ceives confirmation from the coincidence with Phil. iv. 10, 14, 18; others have suggested (Wendt, 1899, Knabenbauer) that he may have gained the means of hiring it by his own work. See in this connection Rendel Harris, Four Lec- tures, etc., pp. 50, 51, and the extract from the Armenian Version of Ephrem’s Com- mentary on the Acts. It would seem that Ephrem imagined that the rent of the lodging was paid by the proceeds of the cloak and books (2 Tim. iv. 13). Lightfoot, Philippians, p. 9, holds that ἰδίῳ certainly distinguishes the µίσθωμα here from the ξενία above, see his note, and Grimm-Thayer, in loco. It is quite true that pioOwpa is not used in this sense of a hired house elsewhere (indeed it is used especially of the wages of hire in a bad sense, Deut. xxiii. 18, Mic. 1. 7, Ezek. xvi. 31), but Lightfoot admits that it may be used here exceptionally as a translation of the Latin conductum, meaning here a suite of apartments only, not the whole house (Lewin), the Latin
meritoria (sc. loca} seems to be used very much in this same double sense of µίσ- θωµα.-- διετίαν ὅλην, cf. xxiv. 27, only in Luke, not in classical Greek, but in Philo (see also Grimm-Thayer, and Deissmann, Neue Bibelstudien, p. 86), so too τριετίαν only in Luke; see on xx. 31. The two years were spent not only in preaching, but in writing, as we may fairly believe, Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians.—aedéxero, see above, xv. 4, xxi. 7, apparently greater freedom than in Czsarea, xxiv. 23; if it was not for the notice in Phil. i. 13, 17, we might almost suppose that the Apostle was liberated on security or on bail; cf. the account of the imprisonment of Agrippa I. in Rome; see p. 486.— πάντας: all, both Jews and Gentiles ; not only the latter, as Bengel thought: ‘‘neminem excludebat Dei exemplo,” Grotius.— εἰσπορ., see on ix. 28, most frequent in Luke, Friedrich, p. 7; see critical note.
Ver. 31. τὰ περὶ: on the phrase see Ῥ. 481.— τοῦ K. Ἰ. X., see critical note, and cf. xi. 17, xv. 26, the full phrase corresponds with the solemn conclusion of the book.—pera π. παῤῥ.: the phrase with or without πάσης four times in Acts, and nowhere else in Ν.Τ., see on p. 128. In Jerusalem by the Twelve, iv. 29, and in Rome no less than in Jerusalem by St. Paul, the witness was given ‘with all boldness,” cf. Phil. i. 14; and so the promise in the vision vouchsafed to the Apostle of the Gentiles was verified, xxili. 11, and the aim of the Gentile historian fulfilled when the Gospel was thus preached boldly and openly, ἕως ἐσχ. τῆς γῆς, see note on i. δ.- ἀκωλύτως: “'εαάεπι plane dicuntur in ep. ad Phil. Roma data, i. 12 sqq.,” Blass, and the word of God had free course and was glorified. The adverb is found in Plato, Epict., Hero- dian, and also in Josephus. In LXX the adjective is found in Wisd. vii. 22, and the adverb is used by Symm., Job xxxiv. 31. There is a note of triumph in the word, Bengel, Zéckler,