Ver. 18. ἐν τοῖς λόγοις τούτοις. Paul had an intelligible word upon the future, unlike the Hellenic mysteries which usually made religion a matter of feel- ing rather than of definite teaching (Hardie’s Lect. on Classical Subjects, ΡΡ. 53 ἢ). A pagan letter of consolation has been preserved from the second century (Oxyrh. Papyrt, i. 115): ‘* Eirene to Taonnophris and Philon good cheer! I was as grieved and wept as much over Eumoiros as over Didymas, and I did all that was fitting, as did all my family.
. But still we can do nothing in such a case. So comfort yourselves. Good- bye.”’ One of Cicero’s pathetic letters (ad. Fam., xiv. 2), written from Thessa- lonica, speaks doubtfully of any re-union after death (“‘haec non sunt in manu nostra”’).
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4 Acts i. 7.
ἔχετε ὑμῖν γράφεσθαι - 2. " αὐτοὶ γὰρ “ ἀκριβῶς οἴδατε ὅτι “ ἡμέρα b Cf. iv. 9. ε ο Cf. on
Κυρίου “ὡς κλέπτης ἐν νυκτὶ οὕτως ἔρχεται - 3. ‘dtav! λέγωσιν» Acts xviii.
, - i ’ ” 25. “Ἑ Εἰρήνη καὶ dopddea,”” *téte " αἰφνίδιος αὐτοῖς ᾿ ἐπίσταται * ὄλε- ἃ Without
Ξ “ἃ ‘ ‘ = ος > article as θρος ᾿ὥσπερ ἡ " ὠδὶν τῇ ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσῃ, καὶ " οὐ μὴ ἐκφύγωσιν. ἴῃ Phil. i. = ΄ > 7] ε ε ες oA 6, 10, ii. 4: ὑμεῖς δὲ, ἀδελφοί, οὐκ ἐστὲ ἐν “ σκότει Piva ἡ ἡμέρα ὑμᾶς ὡς τ, , 2 , a ς πι τες ἢ / 3 ‘ ε Le Remini- κλέπτας 2 καταλάβῃ - 5. πάντες γὰρ ὑμεῖς " υἱοὶ φωτός ἐστε καὶ υἷο" “ oe. Saying in iif ae ae 39; of. Rev. iii. 3, xvi. 15. f Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 54. g Ezek. xiii. το. ὮΙ. xxi. 34. i Win.
§ 5, 10, c.; Sap. vi. 5. k “Destruction” (II. i. 9). 1 Cf. En, Ixii. 4. τη On form, cf. Win. § ο, το. n iv. 15; cf. Ps. Sol. xv. 9, and above on iv. 8. ο Rom. ii. 19; cf. Hom. Iliad, iii. το, κλέπτῃ δέ Te νυκτὸς ἀμείνω. p Conceived result (cf. Burton, Μ.Τ., 218-219) ="*so that”. q Emphatic. τ From Lk. xvi. 8 (cf. En. ον. rr)?
‘To the original asyndeton of οταν (SQ*AG, 17, 44, 47, 179, d,e, f, g, Syr.sch, arm., aeth., Tert., Cyp., Jer, Orig., etc.; so edd.), either yap (KLP, vg. Euthal., Dam.), or δε (35 Β Ὁ, cop., Syr.p, Eus., Chrys., Theod., Schott, Findlay, WH marg.) has been subsequently added. For ωσπερ η ωδιν, Bentl. conj. ὠσπερει ωδινες.
ἥκλεπτας (AB cop., 5ο Bentl., Grot., Koch, Ewaid, Renan, Jowett, Rutherford, Lach., WH, Lgft.), seems to be smoothed away in the strongly attested variant and correction κλεπτης (from νετ. 2). Field (200-201) cites instances {rom Plutarch (Agee Vit. Crassi, xxix., τον δε Κρασσον ἡμερα κατελαβεν) and Pausanias, to illustrate nocturnal operations being surprised by the advent of the dawn. ‘The echo of the word (κλεπτης) is still in his ears; to avoid repetition, he changes its use. Lastly, the reading κλεπτας gives a point to νιοι φωτος " (Jowett). For another instance of AB preserving the original reading, cf. Eph. i. 20.