The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 258

EXPOSITION. CHAPTER XXVL the phrue, njs 11111&µ.011 S11Ja"E01s, • the manner of life according to the Law," in Ver. 1.-And for then, A.V.; hu for the, the Prologue to Ecolesiaeticus and in A.V.; made his defence for a.nsu,ered for Sym.maohus (PB. :uxviii. 6), though not hi,ru;elf, A.V. Agrippa said. It was by in classical Greek. The verb fJufo, occurs in the courtesy of Festue that Agrippa th118 1 Pet. iv. 2, and not unfrequently in the took the chief place. It was, perhaps, with LXX. :From my youth up, whioh was from the like courtesy that Agrippa said, im- the beginning among my OWII. nation, eto., personally, Thou a.rt permitted, withont having knowledge of me from the first (in specifying whether by himself orby Festus. ver, 5). No appeal could bo stronger as to Stretched forth hi& hand. The action of an the notoriety of his whole life spent in the orator, rendered in this case still more im- midst of his own people, observed and known pressive by the chains which hnng upon of all. The T.R. implies that hie youth hie arms. Luke here relat.es what he saw. was spent at Jerusalem, according to what Made his defence (ar<AO')'<i.-o); eh. uv. 8; he himself tells us in eh. xxii. 3. The R.T. niv. 10, note. does so lees distinctly. (For St. Paul's Ver. 2.-Tlia.t I am t.o malce my def= account of his early Pharisaism, comp. Gal before thee this day for because I shall answer i 13, 14; Phil. iii. 5, 6.) for myself thi., da11 before thee, A. V. ; by for Ver. 5.-Ha'Dingknou,'ledge o/me,from tJae of, A.V. .first for which knew me from the beginning, Ver. 8.-Thoa arl;upert for Iknov, Oiee A. V.; be tDiUing t.o for would, A.V.; hou, t.o be ~pert, A.V. e.nd T.R. Expert; that for that, A.V.; straitest for most straileat, "'/,,,:,,,.,,.,,,,,, here only in the New Testament, A. V. Stre.itest(&.1<p1/J•,r.,.".,.,,v); see eh. xxii. Lut found in the LXX. (Daniel, i.e. Hist. 3; xviii. 26, eto. Sect ( a1pecns) ; Bee oh. of Susanna 42) applied to God, cl .-iii111<pvrri;,11 xx.iv. 14, note. He does not disclaim being "'/,,,:,,,.,,.,,,. : u.nd 1 Sam. :u:vili. 3 and 2 Kings still a Pharisee. On the contrary, in the next xxi 6, as the rendering of •~:1771;, a wizard. verse (ver. 6) he declares, as he had done in It is seldom fonnd in classical Greek. Ac- eh. x.xiii. 6, that it was tor the chief hope cording to the B.T., which is that generally of the Pharisee& that he waa now accused. adopted (Meyer, Kuinoel, Wordsworth, Al- He tries to enlist all the good feeling that ford, etc.), the accusative "Y",:,,,.,,.,,,,, 11,,.,.,. ,,., ill yet remained among the Jews on his side. pnt, by a not uncommo';l constrn~tion, for the Ver. 6.-Here to be judged for and am genitive absolute, as m Eph. L 18. The Judged, A. V. To be judged (f,r.,.71"" 1tpwd- marginal rendering, beca.tule thou art 1M1pecially p.<11os); rather, I stand on my trial. The A.V. e;r,pert, seems prefemble to that in the text. seems to give the sense well. The hope of Customs and queetioJlll. For the use of l671 the promise. The hope of the kingdom of and ( 71.-iiµ.a..-.. applied to Jewish customs and Christ, which necessarily implies the re- controversi011, see eh. vi 14; xvi 21 ; :ui 21, surrection of the dead. This hope, which etc. ; and eh. :u:v. 19, note. rested upon God's promise to the fathers, Ver. 4.-Thenfrom my youth up for from Paul clung to; this hope hie Sadduoean my youth, A. V. ; from the be-ginning for at pereeoutore denied. He, then, was the true U1£jirst, A.V.; and at for at, A. V. and T.B. Jew; he was faithful to Moses and the Ky manner of life, etc. These.me testimony prophets; he claimed the sympathy and sup- of a good conscience u that in eh. xxili. 1 port of all truo Israelites, and specially of and xxiv. 16. TLe word fj[,.,,r,s occurs only King Agrippa. wn. ill the New Testament. But we 1lnd V~- 1.-Earnestl11 .for ,n,tantlv, A. V. f, llll, XXVI, 1-32.] THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. 265