The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 262

crunifled Jew giving light to the great there Is some difll.oully in getting thl1 RomRn world, were " foolishnell8 unto him " meaning out of the words. The nntural way because he lacked spiritual disoemmen't. of expressing it would be ,r..p' i,11.(.,,av, or Re thought the apostle's glowing words 011.t.,,ov, or oll.l')'a" 3,a. Henoo many othor com- mmt be the outoome of a dieordered mind. mentators take 111 011.l-y'I' to mean " in a short Turn thee to ma.dneu (,ls I'"-"'"" ,,.,p,-rpl,m), time," and the sense to be either "you are The word"""'" (mauia) occurs only here in making short work of my oonversion : you the New Testament. But it is the teohnioal a.re persuading me to become a Christion as name in medioa.J. writers for the diee&Be of suddenly a.a you yourself did ; " with a cor- l'll"(a, mania, and is also oommon in oll\8• responding ll8nse for l.11 ,..&Ml/', "in a long eioa.l writen. The verb for " doth turn " time," i.e. whether it takes a. short or a. long ( .,.,p,-rp'7«) ta aleo peculiar t.o St. Luke, time, I pray God you may become a Ohristiau beiug found only in this pla.oe. It is used like myself;" or, "you l\re eoon persuading by Plato, but speoiall.y by medioa.l writ.ere, me," you will eoon persuade me if you go a.s is a.leo the substantive formed from it, on any longer in this strain. Others, ognin, .,.,,,..,.pa..+,, spoken of the "turn" tR.ken by a preferring the reodiug ,,, ii•-yrlll.rp in ver. 29, diseue, e.nd the simple verb -rplrH a.nd take Iv 011.(-,,,,. to mee.u "with little troublo," -rp,,r,-ra, : e.g. frp•,j,• 'Y"°'l'11" Is µ.avl71r, : Is,,.,,,,.. or " with few words," 1\8 Eph. iii. 5 (under- 6ponrlw ;, iiu(71 -rpETf'ra,.: -roi's p.o.u,oii••a1<TI standing 11.&-,,,,. or ,r&v,,,), "lightly" (Alford), ~Mo-r• I'~" Is op·y¾w, &Ma-r• 1>i Is l!uii11Bl1tr, and then the opposite ,,, /L"Yclll.cp would mean (mirth) irf"6J/L1/ -rpttmu, etc.. (Robe.rt, p. 468). " with muoh trouble," "with many words," Ver. 25.-Paul saith for he eaid, A. V. a.nd i.e. "with difficulty." But this is rather a T. R. : ezcillent for noble, A. V. ; tDCl'f'IU for the flat rendering. Another difference of opinion 1Dorda, A.V. Kost uoellent (tep1i-r,<T'r<), It is whether the words of Agrippa. a.re to be appears to be the proper title to give the taken ironically, or aarcastioally, or jestingly, procurator (see eh. :a:iii. 26; :u::iv. 8). St. or whether they a.re to be taken seriously, Luke o.lso applies it t.o Theophilm (Luke i 1\8 the words of a. man she.ken in his convic-- 3). In olassica.1 Greek al 1ep11-r1<T'ro, are the tions ond seriously impressed by what he a.rist.ocra.cy. Bobern81l8 (<T"'4>paa6V11); sound had hee.rd. The whole turn of the narrative or wbermindedneu; jmt the opposite of the seems to favour the latter view. Another """I.a of which he Wl\8 acc11Bed. See the use view, started by Chrysostom, is the.t Agrippa of aw,Ppo11,ir, (Mark v. 15; Luke viii. 35; 2 med the words in one ll8nse, a.nd St. Paul Cor. v. 18, eto. ), a.nd of tn»,ppa11( (<111, a"',Pprr (mistakenly or advisedly) took them in an- r,u,µrls, ,r,l,,ppa,11, etc. So a.lso in Plato, awrppo- other. Another possible explanation is that O'UP1/ is opposed to """la. Iv dlu-y'f' is here used in the sense in which Ver. 2G.-Unto for 'before, A. V.; u hirulen Thuoydides employs the phrase (ii. 86 a.nd for an hidden, A. V.; thu hath not been for iv. 26), T¾w lr, oA.(')''f' 111111iii!x1<111 and 'Er, oA.i'l''f' 11,u thing wa, ,wt, A.V. l!'or the king, etc. a-rp<1-ra,r,6,uo/Ll11os, viz." in e. narrow place;" Something in Agrippa's manner showed St. and that Agrippa. mesnt to say," By your Paul l.ha.i he was not une.ffected by what he appeal to the prophets you press me hard ; had heard. And so with his mual quiek- you have got me into a. corner. I am in a ue&& and toot he appee.ls to him to con.firm an11axwp(a., a • narrow room; ' I hardly know the " worda of truth a.nd eoberness" which how to get out of it." The Iv IL''l',!NP would he had just addressed to the sceptical Festus. then mean a " large room," e. •vpux111p(11 (Ps. I apea.k freely. Re was indeed a prisoner x.xx. 8). This would BUppose l.11 oll.1-y({' and and in ehaius. as he so touchingly said (in ,,, l'•')'clll.r,• to have become proverbial phrases. ver. 29), but tho word of God in his mouth Ver. 29.- Whether with little or 'lllith much was not bound. fl4/,{>11a1<1(01L•11os (see eh. ix. for botJl almost, and altogether, A.V.; might 27; xiii. 46; xiv. S; xviii 26; xix. 8; and become for 1Dere, A.V. (the order of the words the frequent use of -r¥/>11ai<1), is a.I.so changed). I would to God; literally, Ver. 28.-.And for tn.en, A.V.: afh but I would pray to God. It is not very different little perll1JIUion Uiou t.OOUldeat f ait. make me from the 11iixo1L11v of Rom. ix. 8. All a.cknow- a Cl.riatian for almo,t tJwu persuadeat l7Ul to be ledge the extreme beauty and toste of this a Cl,rW.ian, A. V. With but little penuaaion reply, combining the firmness of the martyr (,11 011.i-,,,,,, c......>...). Thi.a B&.yingof Agrippa's with the courtesy of the gentleman. "Loqui• is obecure and variously explained. The tur Paulus ex sensu sum bea.titudinis, onm A. V.. following Chrysostom, Beza, Luther, amore la.tissimo" (Bengel). et.c., takoll l.11 011.I-,,,,, to mean "within a little" Ver. 80.-,fod the king ro,e up for anti or" almol!t," like the Hebrew CJ!Z?:.>, which is 1Dhen he had tJ,,11,1 ,poken, the 7,ing, eto., A. V. very 11uitable to the context. The corre. e.nd T.B. They that sat with them, The sponding ,,, ..-oMcp, or, as otherwise read, ,,, chief ea.plains and principal men a.nd the µeyd>..r,,, would tLen mee.n, 1111 in the A.V., royal attendants of eh. x.xv. 28. "&I.together," and the &el188 of the whole Ver. 31.-Had 111i,tlLdra1Dn for UJet'll g006 oueage iM ■biking and appropriate. But aeide, A. V.; epalce 006 to anotJ~r for talked  OD, XXVI. 1-82,] THE A.OTB OF THE APOSTLES. 269