The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 89

by a ohanoo qnotation In Senooa's Epistle nor in the LXX., nor In olassical writers 104, of a saying of "my lo:rd Gallio, (Stoph., • TheB&ur.'). The judirment-aeat when he had II fever in .A.ohaia and im• (see note to ver. 12). mediately wont on boa.rd ship," where the Ver. 13.-Man for feT,lou,, A.V. The A.V, phrase "domini mei," applied to his own Wllll intended to express the contemptuous brother, seems also t.o indioate his high feeling often implied in o~,-os (Luke xxiii. rank. Profane history also shuts up the 2; Matt. xii. 24; eh. v. 28, eto.). Oon• probable date of Gallio's prooonsulate trary to the Law ; meo.ning, e,s it naturally between the year A.D. 49 and the year would in the mouth of a Jew, the Law of A.D. 65 or 66, in whioh he died. There is Moses. Henoe Git.llio's answer in vor. 15, a diversity of aooounta &s to bis death. "If it be a question . . . of your Law, look Ernesti, in his note on Tacitus, • Annal.,' ye t.o it." The very phrese, to " worship n. In.iii., where Taoi.tue speaks of him as God," had a technical sense (see above, frightened at the death of his brother ver. 7). Paul, they so.id, professed to make Senee.a., and a snpplie.nt for his own life, proselytes, and encouraged them to break the says, "quem Nero post interfeoit,'' and refers Law. . to Dion O&ssillB, 58, 18, and Eusebius. But Ver. 14.-But for and, A.V.; about for Dion is there speaking of Junius Gallio in now about, A.V.; if indeed for if, A.V.; of the reign of Tiberius, not of our Gallio at wicked f!illainy for wicked lewdness, A.V. o.11 ; though afterwards, speaking of the The Greek pq,6,o6p'Yflµa. occms ouly here in death of Seneca, he says, "and his brothers the New Testament or elsewhere ; ~q.8,ovp-yla., o.lso were killed after him "(62. 25). 1 As for which is not uncommon in Greek writers, Eusebius, the p1186e.ge quoted• is not found occurs in eh. xiii. 10. in the Greek or Armenian copies of the Ver. 15.-ThetJ are quutio'/18 about for 'Chronicon,' but only in tbe Latin of Jerome. it be a quution of, A.V. and •.r.R. ; your own But, as Soa.ligtll' points out, there is a mani- for of your, A.V., an unnecessary ohange; fest blunder here, because the • Chronicon' look to it yourseT.f!es for look ye to it, A.V. ; pla.ces the death of Gallio two years before I am not minded to be a for for I will be that of Seneca., wherea.s we know from no, A.. V. and T .R. ; these for such, .A. V. Ta.citus that Ga.llio was alive after his Ver. 16.-And he drave them; bf,71.rur,v, brother's death. Moreover, the description found only here in the New Testament or " egregius declama.tor" clearly applies t.o LXX. But it is used by Demosthenes and Junius Ga.llio the rhetorician, and not to Pluta.rob in ex110tly the same connection : Ga.ilia his adopted son. Though, therefore, l,,rl, -rou uvv,5plov : l,,,-1, rou /3f,µa.'Tos (Demo- Rena.n says, •• Comme son frere il eut sthenes, 1373, 12; Plnui.roh, 'Marcell.,' p.410, l'honneur sous Neron d'expier par, la. mort in SchleUBner). It implies the ignominio11S sa distinction et son honnetete" (' St. dismissal of the ca.se, without its being Paul,' p. 222), if we give due weight to even tried. The judgm.ent-seat (fn,p.a); the the silence of Taoitus, it is very doubtful proconsular place of judgment, The /3ijµa whether he died a violent death at all. (here and ver.12) was properly the "raised St. Luke, es U8lllll. is most accurate in space," or "tribune," on which, in the case calling him procouul. Achaia had beon of a consul, proconsul, or prmtor, the sel,la recently made a senat.ori&l province by cvrulia wes pl.e.ced on which he sat and gave Claudius. For a,,81J1ra.ros, see eh. xiii. judgment. It wes 11Sually a kind .of apse 7, 8, 12; :riL 38. The verb occurs only to the basilica. In Matt. xxvii. 19 ; here in the New Testament. The te1m John xi.x. 13, and, indeed, here and else- deputy w&& adopted in the A. V. doubtleu where, it seems t.o be used, generally, for the frow that beillg the iitle of the Viceroy judgment-seat itself (see oh. xxv. 10). of Ireland, IIDd other oflicem who exercise Ver. 17.-.And they all I.aid hold on for t1um a deputed anthcrity, just &B the proconsul all tJie <heelu took, A.V. and T.B.; ruler for wu in the place of the consul. Rose up cl,ief rol.er, A.V., as ver. 8. The R.T. h1111 far against; ,ca'Tf71'E<T'T1JUIUl,ODeofLuke's peculi&r more manuscript support than. either the worda, found neither in the New Testament T,B. or another reading, which ha.s "Jews" instead of " Greeks." All means all the 1 This is corroborated by T11cit11S as far crowd of bystanders a.nd lookers-on, mostly, as one brother, Annmus Mella, the father of no doubt, Greeks. The Jews, o.lwo.ys the poet Lucan, is concerned, but not as unpopular, would be sure to have the regards Ga.llio. Corinthian rabble against them as soon 11& ~"Junius Annmus Ga.llio, frater Sen~, the proconsul drove them from the judgment- egregius decl.e.mator, propri.e. se ma.nu inter• seat. Sosthenes. There is no probability focit,mortemejUBNerone in Sll&III. presentiam whatever tbe.t he is the same person &a the different<: " (' Eusebii Pe.mp. Chronic Lib. SostheneB of 1 Cor. i. 1. The name was very Poskrior Interpr. Hieronymo,' p. 161 of common. He appears to have suooeeded Sc&.li{;er'11 edition,under.the 1J.wnbermm.lI..U.) CrUipW:1 u ruler of the synagogue, and on. xvm. 1-28.] THE AOTS OF THE APOSTLES. 91