The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 167

fore, it is too strong ILU expression t.o 81LY • to remo-..1," whioh glvee no good 1ense "many daye." Aooording to Lewin'e oal- here. culstion, he was only five da.ye a.t CaiSILl'lllL Ver. 16.-And there tl!fflC for tkere toent, -from May 10 to May 15. Howson's A.V.; from for of, A.V.; bringing for and "some days,'' which is the rendering also in bro1tgkt, A.V.; early for old, A.V. Mne.son the margin of the R.T., is much better than of Cypl'llll; only mentioned here. He may "many." Renan he.a "quelquea joure." very probably be oue of those Cypriots Agitbus (eee eh. xi. 28). mentioned in oh. xi. 19, 20, and so bo.ve Ver. 11.-0oming to for ,ohen he wcu oome been e. disciple before the dee.th of Slophcn, m1to, A.V.; and t.aking for he t,ook, A.V.; and hence properly oa.lled an old or early I~ bound for and bound, A.V.; feet and hands disciple. If he bud been one of St. Paul's for hand~ and feet, A.V. and T.R. Bound oonverts in the visit to Oyprns reoorded in hi& own feet, eto. The R.T. hs.s lavToii oh. xiii., St. Pa.ul wonld he.ve needed no w_hich leaves no doubt that Agabus bound introduction to him. The construction of h1s O'Wll hands and feet. The reading of the the sentence is involved, and the exo.ot T. R., au-rou, would rather indicate Paul's meaning oonsequently obscure. Kuinoel, hands and feet, se Grotius, HBIDmond, and Meyer, Howson (in • Diot. of Bible'), and others take it, though less oonformably to ma.ny more, transle.t.e it "oonducting us the context. (For simila.rsymbolioal actions to Mne.son," eto., which seems the better of the old prophets, see Isa. x:x. 2, 3 ; J er. transle.tion; not, however, so e.e to me.ke xiii. 1-7; 1 Kings nii. 11; Ezek. iv. 6y«v M11J.a-a,11, equivalent to 6y,w trpbs 1-6; xii. S-7 ; rnv. 16-24, et.o.) Shall Mvd.a-•va, which Greek usage will not deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. admit of, but explaining the dative by Nearly the same words u those in which e.ttraction of the relative ii, which is our Lord foretold his own betrayal (Me.tt. governed by trapil. Il it he.d not been for tho xx. 19; Ma.rk x. 33 ; Luke xviii 32). intervening -np' /I (,11u16&µ.,v, the sentence Ver. 12.-They of the.t place; oi i,,,,.h,oi, would hove nm i.-,,o,,,,.,s trph -rbv Mvl£a-u,11a, e. word found only here in the New Testa.- ,c • .-.>... U Mne.son, who, consistently with ment, and not found in the LXX. or the eh. xi. 19, had s honse ot Jerusalem, had Apocrypha., bnt good classical Greek (for the been e.t Cmsares at this time, it would be sentiment, see ver. 4). quite unmeaning that disciples from Omsarea. Ver. 13.- What do ye, weeping and break- should bring Mnason with them. The ing my heart 1 for what mean ye to weep and sentence would rather have run "among to break mine heartf A. V. ( the sBIDe sense only whom Wll8 Mnason," eto. But if he was at a. more modern idiom). Bree.king. 2v118pu- Jernse.lem, it was quite proper tbe.t any =orru occurs only here in the New Teste.- Chrietia.ns of Omsa.rea. who knew him should meni, or indeed in o.ny Greek writer, though oonduct Pe.ul to his house, and introduce the simple form, Opu'IM""', is common in medi- him and his party to him. Mnason, like c.al writers, and a..-oep,J'IM",,, occurs in Plato. It Philip (ver. 6, note), was evidently a me.n ha.s the force of the Latin frangere animum., of substance. Should lodge; should be hos- to crush a.nd wee.ken the spirit. I am ree.dy. pite.bly entertained (Heh. xiii. 2; I Pet. iv. Pe.ul"s unewcr reminds ns of Peter's se.ying 9 ; see eh. x. 6, 18). to our Lord," Lord, I e.m ready to go with Ver. 18.-Wen.t in with us unto J'ames. thee both into prison, and to dee.th" (Luke Nothing can me.rk more dietinoHy the xrii. 33). Bnt Peter's resolve was made in position of Ja.mes as Bishop of Jernsalem his own stren.,,,<71;h, Paul's in the strength of than this visit of Pa.ul to him, and the find- the Holy Ghost ; and so the one was broken, ing him surrounded with a.11 the elders of and the other we.s kept. J ernsalem. It is a most distinct evidence of Ver. 14.-The will of the Lord, etc. A the e.postolic origin of the episcopal office. beautiful applica.tion of the petition in the Ver. 19.-Behearsed one by one for declared Lord's pr:iyer, '' Thy will be done in earth, particul.arly, A.V.; the tliings which for what ae it is in heaven" (comp. Luke x:xii. 42). thing,, A. V. The things which God had Ver. 15.-These for those, A.V.; baggage wrought, et.o. (comp. eh. xv. 12). It was s for carriages, A. V. We took np, etc. 'E,ri- noble account to render. Since he had .,,,,.,at1&.µ.,vo, is the reading of the R. T., a.s sainted the Church (eh. xviii 22), when he of Mill, Bengel, Griesbe.ch, Lachmann, Ti- had probably seen James last, he had echendorf, Meyer, Alford, etc. It occurs laboured e.t Antioch, in Galstia and only here in the New Testament, but is Phrygie., and ha.d wrought a mighty revo- common in classical Greek, in the sense of lution in Asia. He ha.d oonsolidated his "fitting out for a journey,"" lading a ship" or work in Macedonia and Acha.ia; he had held "beasts of bnrden" with ba"'"'age, 0 "collect- his visitation of Gentile elders in Miletus; ing be.ggage," and the like. The lnrotT1<<11d.- he had visited Tyre, Ptolemais, and Omsarea, ( ,uOa, of 1he A.V. mer,ns ·• to unload,"" to great Gentile citie1, and had seen every- &et rid of baggage," a.nd thence generall:, where astonishing tokens of the grace of OU, XXI, 1-40.] 'fHE ACTS OF TlilE APOSTLES. 171