Ver. 5. καὶ ὅτι ὤφθη Κηφᾷ, εἶτα τοῖς δώδεκα: so much of the evidence P.
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v Acts vi. 2; εἶτα 1 above twenty times in GG.; ef. Rev. xxi.
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w Mk. xiv. 5. see Wr., Ῥ. 313.
z In this sense, Phil. i. 25; John xxi. 22 f. (with παντων); Num. xxxi. 2.
1 επειτα (2), ΝΑ, 17, 37, 46. eta, BDcKLP. peta ταυτα: D*G.
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ὄπλειογνες, pre-Syrian uncc.
4 Om. και pre-Syrian uncc. and verss.
δειτα, D, Cyr.
x Rom. vi. 10; Heb. vii. 27, ix. 14, x. ΙΟ. See note below. f a See iv. 13. i For adj., see ver. 26.
Ἱποῖς " δώδεκα”. 6. ἔπειτα "ὤφθη “erdvw πεντακοσίοις ἀδελφοῖς " ἐφάπαξ, ἐξ ὧν Tot πλείους ὃ " µένουσιν "ἕως " ἄρτι, τινὲς δὲ καὶ" "ἐκοιμήθησαν: 7. ἔπειταὸδ "ὤφθη ᾿Ιακώβω, εἶτα ὃ τοῖς ἀποστόλοις πᾶσιν" 8. "ἔσχατον δὲ "πάντων, “domepel τῷ
y See ix. 19. c Adv., Mk. xii. 22 See note below.
b See vii. 39. d Bibl. 4.1.
So Tisch., Tr., and W.H. marg.
2 evdexa, DG, latt. vg., and Latt. Ff.,—a characteristic Western emendation.
® ewerta (2), N*AGK, 17, 46. So Tisch., Lachm., Tr., W.H. marg.
ειτα, SCBDLP, etc. Cf. note 2.
states as having been formally delivered to the Cor. along with the facts attested ; for these two clauses are under the regimen of παρέδωκα (ver. 3). The manifold testimony was detailed with more or less fulness at diff. times; but P. seems always to have related imprimis the witness of Kephas and the Twelve, beside the revelation to himself (3). The Lord’s manifestation to Peter (on the form Kephas, see i. 12) preceded that given to the body of the Apostles (Luke xxiv. 34). Peter’s evidence, as the witness of Pentecost and ἀπόστολοςτ. περιτομῆς, was of palmary importance, ἀξιόχρεων cis µαρτυρίαν (Thd.), esp. in view of the consensus to be asserted in ver. 11 (cf. i. 12).—@0y with dat., appeared (pass. aor., in reflexive sense: see Bm., pp. 52, 187), is used of exceptional, supernatural appearances (see parls.). ‘‘ The twelve,”’ the college of the App., without exact re- gard to number: actually ten, wanting Judas Iscariot, and Thomas absent on the first meeting. Luke speaks on this occa- sion of ‘‘ the eleven (the Western reading here) and those with them,” xxiv. 33; Paul cites the official witnesses.
Ver. 6 carries forward ὤφθη into a new sentence, independent of παρέδωκα .. . ὅτι: the four remaining manifestations Ῥ, recites without indicating whether or not they formed a part of his original communication.—éweita (cf. 23, 46, xii. 28) ὤφθη κ.τελ.: ‘ After that (detnde) He appeared to above (ἐπάνω, cf. Mark xiv. 5) five hundred brethren once for all’’ (semel, Bz.). Nowhere else has ἐφάπαξ the meaning simul, at once (so Vg., and most interpreters, in violation of usage). This was the culminating manifestation
of the risen Jesus, made at the general gathering to which His brethren were invited by Him in a body, as it is related in Matt. xxviii. 7, 10, Mark xvi. 7; the appearance to ‘‘ the eleven” described in Matt. xxviii, 16 ff. is recorded as the sequel to this summons, and implies the presence of a larger assembly (see esp. the words οἱ δὲ ἐδίστασαν in ver. 17), such as P. alludes to; the great charge of Matt. xxviii. 18 ff., closing the First Gospel, corresponds by its importance to this ἐφάπαξ.- -Ῥ. writes a quarter of a century after the event; the followers of Jesus were mostly young in age for ‘the majority” (οἱ πλείονες) to have been still alive. On ἕως ἄρτι, see iv. 13.
Ver. 7. ‘‘ After that, He appeared to James”’"—sc. Fames, the brother of the Lord, as elsewhere in P. (Gal. i. 19, ii. 9, - 12), included in the ἀδελφοὶ τ. Κυρίου of ix. 5 above (see note); associated with P. in Acts xv. 13, xxi. 18 (see notes). The manifestation to James—only mentioned here—the chief of our Lord’s formerly unbelieving brothers (John vii. 5), ex- plains the presence of ‘“ His brothers’’ amongst the 120 disciples at Jerus. (Acts i. 14) and James’ subsequent leadership in the mother Church. His high position at the time of writing accounts for his citation in this place. Paul made acquain- tance with James as well as Peter on his first visit to the Jerus. Church (Gal. i. 18 f.). The well-known story about the meeting of Jesus with James told by Jerome (De viris illustr., 2) implies an earlier date for this than Paul’s narrative admits of, since ἔπειτα signifies succes- sion in time; succession of rank cannot be intended.—‘‘ After that, to all the