The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 261

prcnchfog in Juclma. For inetnncr•, the here e.nd in prof11ne Greek writers. The langungo of eh. xi. 29 suggests tho.t eueh exact meaning of ..-a811-r&s ie "liable to o.n oppo~tunity mo.y ho.ve a.risen when Po.ul suffering," just as 8v11-r&, (from 9v{1,rnw) nnd Bo.rno.bo.e co.rriod up tho o.lrne of the means "liable to deo.th," i.e. mortal. But Ohristio.ne o.t Antioch " unto tho brethr11n just as Onrrrfr in n.,e comes to mee.n "one tho.t dwelt in Judma." Another opportunity who must die," so ,r11871-r&s means "one who ho mnnifest!y ho.d when he pRaso,I with must euffer;" and so we read in Luke xxi v. Do.rnnbas thl'ongh Phamicb o.nd Samo.rio. 26, Ouxl l1i,i ,ra8ii'v -rbv Xp,o--rbv, Kal ~lo-,;>,.9,iv to Jcrusn!em, ns rele.tod in eh. xv. 3. ,ls -rlw 1i&~av 116-rov; "Ought not Christ to Another, when he went from Cmsaree. to have suffered," etc. ? And so again in Luke Jerusalem, as related in eh. xviii. 22. Ago.in, xxiv. 46 (T.R.), 'E6,i 1ra8,i" -rov Xp,o--r,iv, Kal there was room for working among the J ewe ltv11.o--r-ijvit, '" veKpwv, " It behoved Christ to in Po.Jestine while he wo.s et:iying o.t euffer, e.nd to riso from the dead," where the Cmsarea "many days," and journeying to tum of thought is exactly the same as here. Jerusalem, as we read in eh. xxi. 10, 15. The Vulgate renders it by passibili•. The So that there is no contl'o.diction whatever Fathers (Igno.tius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr) between the etatement in this verse nnd contrast the etate of Uhrfat in glory with that in Gal. i. 22. The clauses in this his state in the flesh by the words ha9tis verse e.re two: (1) "both to them o.t Damas- and 1r11/hi-ro,, "impassible" and "pe.ssible." cus, e.nd e.t J eruse.letn first ; " o.nd (2) " e.nd That he first by the resu:rrection of the dead throughout nil Judaia., and to the Gentiles.'' should procla.i.I.l, eto. Most commentators, Ver. 2I.-1'his cause for these causes, A.V.; from Chrysostom downwards, connect the first seiz,,d for caught, A.V.; essayed for went with the resurrection. "First from the about, A.V. For this cause. Here age.in is resurrection," equal to -rrpw-r&,;o,co~ EJC -rWv 11 most telling statement. "I he.ve epent v<Kpwv (Col. i. 18). As Meyer truly says, my life in trying to persuade men to repent "The chief stress of this sentence lies on e.nd turn to God, e.nd for doing so the Jews ,rp&ro, J~ cu1110--rd.o-H»s," The A. V. gives the seek to kill me. Ce.n this be right? Will sense by e. periphrasis; only it must be not you, 0 King Agrippe., protect me from well understood that it was especially by such e.n unjust requite.I?" To kill me ; being the first to rise, and so to bring life llt11x.,plo-110-8a,, here e.nd in eh. v. 30 only and immortality to light, that Christ showed in the New Testament; not in the LXX., but light to the people. The words may, of in Polybius, and in Hippoerates anu. Galen, course, be construed as the R.V. does, but of surgical operations. such a rendering is not in accordance with Ver. 22.-The help that is from God for the spirit of the passage or the analogy of help of God, A.V.; •stand for continue, A.V.; other passages. ChriBt was the first to rise, testifying for witnessing, A.V. ; nothing but and he will be followed by them that are what for none other things than those wliich, his. But it is not true to say thfit he was A.V. Kelp, etc.; /,r1Koupl11, here only and the first to give light to Jews and Gentiles, in Wisd. xiii. 18, still of Divine help ; in e.nd will be fallowed by others doing the medical writers frequently, of aid from so.me. (For the sentiment, comp. Luke medicine and physicians ; common also in ii. 32.) Note on the whole the enormous cle.ssice.l writers, of auxiliary forces. It is stresa laid by St. Paul on the fulfilment of properly spoken of· help e.nd e.llies jl'Om prophecy e.s a proof of the truth of the without (Bengel). I stand; ,.e. I continue gospel, following therein our Lord himself unmoved, steadfast, e.nd, by God's help, not (Luke xxiv. 25, 27, 44, 45). crushed by my enemies. Testifying. The Ver. 24.-Madd his defence for •pake for natural rendering of the R.T. p.11p-rvp&µ.•vos. himself, A.V. (a.,ro.\o-youp.evou, as ver. 2); saith The T,R. p.11p-rvpovp.,vos, followed by inrb, for said, A.V.; mad for beside thyself, A.V.; would mee.n "borne witness to," "appl'oved," !hy much for much, A.V.; turn thee to mad- e.s in eh. vi. 8 ; x. 22, etc., o.nd so Meyer ness for make !hee mad, A.V. With a loud understands it here. But p.ap-rvpJµ.,vos voioe. Another deto.il, betraying the eye- mo.kes much better • sense, and is much witness of the scene described. Thou art better supported by Dlanuscript authol'ity. mad (µ11/"11); eh. xii. 15; John x. 20; It is in close agreement with oh. ix. 15 e.nd 1 Cor. xiv. 23. Muoh learning (-rit ,roNl.ri eh. xxii. 15, that St. Paul should thus -ypaµ.p.11T11). So John vii. 15, "How knoweth " testify" to small and great. this man letters (-ypd.µ.p.11-r11)?" is equivalent Ver. 23.-How that the Chrut muat for to" Whence he.th this man this wisdom?" that Ohrut should, A.V. ;.,.how that he first by (Me.tt. xiii. 54). And lt.-ypd.p.p.11-ros in eh. the reeuTTection of the dead shoultl, proclaim iv. 13 is" unlearned." The excited inter- for that he should be the first that should ,u~ ruption by Festus shows that he was un- from the dead, and should. ehow, A. V. ; both able to accept the truths enunciated by the to for unto, A.V. and T.R. Row that (<l); apostle. 'l'he idee.s of fulfilled prophecy, 1ee ver. 8,Dote. Kut awfer j 1r11B71-r&s gQ).y e.nd of the reaurreotion of the deud, Mel of ll  288 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. [olI, :Uvt. 1-32,