The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 227

Law, and . , . the prophet, (a.s Me.tt. v. 17: Ver. 19.-To mak6 accusation for obje~, Luke :uiv. 27, 44), A.V, The ser.ae is exactly the same. Ver. 16.-Having for and hat1e, A.V,: Ver. 20,-Men them~elves for same here, lhue auo themRelvea lool, for for they them- A.V.; 'lllhat !"f'O'flg-doing they found for ,1 •elvea also allo!D, A.V. : resurrection for they hame founrt, OIMJ ml doing in me, A.V. reau,-,.eclion of the dead, A,V, and T.R. and T.R.; 11Jhen for 11Jh.i'1.e, A.V. Let these Whioh these alao themselveB look for (see men themselves, Since the Asiatic J ewe are ah. xxiii. 6). :Both of the just, eta. This is not here to bear witness, let these men who distinctly to.ught in Dan. xii. 2 (comp. are here speak for themselves a.a to what l\fatt. xxv. 46: John v. 29). they witnessed in the Sanhedrim. Ver, 16.-Herein . .. also for and he"'m, Ver, 21.-Before you for by you, A. V. and A.V. and T.R.: to have a conscience .•• T.R. (1..-l for lnro). Except (l!): ,tu.a, else, alway for to have always, eta., A. V.; and is understood after 'l'I, so thatfl is equivalent men for and to!Daf'd men, A.V. (For the to d µf,. Touching the reaUJ"rectiou (see eh. sentiment, comp. eh. xxiii. I.) Herein (111 xxiii. 6, where the exact words are," Touch- 'l'O,mf'); i.e. on this account, under these cir- ing the hope and resurrection of the dead, I aumstances supplying the ground and cause am ca.lled in question"). ofmy action (comp. John xvi. 30). So, too, Ver. 22.-But Feliz, having more e%act Matt. vi. 7, 'Ev .,.fi .,,.oll.vll.o-yla; ad.,.wv means knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, " On account of their much' BJ)f'alring." I saying for and 'Ulhen Feliz heard these things, exercise myself; l,.,r,cw, here only in the having more p~fe.et knowledge of that way, New Testament, but frequent in medical he deferred them, and said, A.V. and T.R.; writers for "to practise " the medical art. determine for know the uttermost of, A.V. Ver. 17.-After many years; or, several Having more'. exact knowledge, etc. At year,. St. Paul's last visit to Jerusalem Caasarea., Felix must have seen and heard was that mentioned in eh. xviii. 22. Since something of Christianity. The conversion then be had spent •• some time" (xp&vov of Cornelius with his household and friends, '1'111&) e.t Antioch, be.d gone over all the men belonging to the dominant Roman country of Phrygia e.nd Ge.latia, he.d come power; the work of Philip the evangelist, to Ephesus, and stopped between two e.nd residing probably for some years at Caasarea. three years there, had gone through Mace- and working among Romans as well as Jews, donio., had spent three months at Corinth, must have given Felix some knowledge of had returned to Macedonio., and from " the Way." He would learn somethiD g, too, thence had come to Jerusalem in about both of Judaism and Christianity from fifty days. All which must he.ve occupied Drusilla, his wife (ver. 24, note). When four or five years-from A.D, 54 to A.D. 58- Lysias .. , shall oome (see vers. 7, 8, and aooording to most chronologers. Evidently note). I will determine (o,a-yvw,roµa;,); see Pe.ul had not been plDtting seditious move- above, eh. xxiii. 15, where the verb is in the ments at Jerusalem, where he he.d only active voice, and is rendered in the B.V. arrived twelve de.ye before, for a pnrely 11 to judge." The idea of the word is "to benevolent and pious purpose, after an know with discriminution ; " and this is the absence of fo1ll' or five years Alms . . . sense it has in medical writers, who use it and offerings. Those of which he speaks in very frequently: as e.g. Galen says, npwTov I Cor. xvi. 1-4; 2 Cor. viii. ; Rom. xv. 25, -yap 5uryvwva, XP¾ .,.( 'lrOTE f(fTl ... cl9os (quoted 26, 31. To this may be added" the charges" by Hobart), Hence the "diagnosis" of an for which he made himself answerable for illness (eh. xxiii. 15). the poor N e.zurites (eh. xxi. 24, 26). Ver. 23.-Gave order to the for com- Ver. 18.-Amidst which for whereupon, manded a, A.V,; that he should be kept in A.V. and T.R.; they found me purified in charge for to keep Paul, A.V. and '.r.R.; the temple with no crowd, nor yet with tumult: and should have indulgence for and to let him but there were certain JetDB from Asia for hatie lib~ty, A.V.; not to forbid any of his certain ,Tews from .A.Bia found me purified in friends for that he shO'U.ld forbid. none of the temple, neither with multitude, nor with hia acquaintance, A.V.; to minister unto him tumult, A.V. ond T.R. Amidst whioh (iv for to minister or come unto him, A.V. and aTs, R.T.) refers to the alms and offerings. T.R. Indulgence (~"'""): literally, r&- The T.R. he.s lv oTs, "under which circum- ~ation, viz. of the prison restraints and 1tances," "Bt the transaction of which confinement. The word is used iu the deeds," or, briefer, •• whereupon," A. V. But LXX. of 2 Cbron. :xxiii. 15, (~"'""-" a.u711 there were. Most mauusoripts followed by ~v,,rw, i.e. those who had ta.ken Atbalie.h the R.T., ree.d .,.,.,h 5~ l,..,,.~ .,.~s 'Aular, thus prisoner, " let her loose " till she got out of giving e. broken unfinished sentence instead the temple court. It is also a common of ~he pie.in and complete one of the T.R., medico.I term for the cessation or remission wh;1oh agree■, moreover, exaotly with oh. of pa.in or disease. St. Paul use:J it four Dt,27. timea iJl his Epistles for "rest " or "eaae 11 234 THE AOTS OF THE APOS'l'LES. [oR. :u.1v. 1-27,