The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2 — Section 312

dote (els o~3~,, !f.-o,ro., lµw,uoii.-a, ~tf3lms), hundred &nd seventy-six. Heh. xiii. 2 ho.d "shall suffer no he.rm." It is used in medi- o, strikin~ fulfllment here. Dming the three CRl writ,•rs in two scnses--of" unusue.l symp- de.ye they would h1we opportunity to proome toms," and ol fate.l consequences. In the suitable winter quo.rters. New Testament it only occurs elsewhere in Ver. 8.-.n waa so for it came to paee, Luke xxiii. 41, "Nothing e.mise;" e.nd 2 A.V.; fever for a fever, A.V.; dyBentei·y for TJ,ess. iii. 2, "A,-,1,,-..,., r<al 7rOll'flpii>v Av8pwwow. of a bloody ftu:r,, A.V.; unto for to, A.V.; and It is nlso used in the LXX. for wickedness, laying, etc., heal,ed for and laid, eto., and doing wickedlr, eto. They ohe.nged their healed, A.V. The fe.ther of Publius. The minds; BI! in an opposite direction the Lyca- fe.ct of the father of Publius being nlivo nnu onians did (oh. xiv. 11, 19). It is a gre.phio living in Me.lm is a further indice.tion thnt picture of the fickleness of e.n untutored the term d ,rpw-ros .-ij, vf,,rou is an official mind ~-ielding to every impulse. The im- title. Lay siok. :£vv,x•u9a1 is also the punity with whioh St. Paul endured the bite usue.l medical expression for being tal,en sick of the 'l"iper was e. direct fulfilment of our of any disease (see the numerous passages Lord's promise in Mark xvi. 18 (see further quoted by Hobo.rt, pp. :3, 4, from Go.len and note on ver. 8). Hippocre.tes). It is useu by St. Luke, with Ver. 7.-No,o in tJui neighbourhood of that Tupe.-~ (Luke iv. 38), anu in the same sense place for in tlui same quarters, A.V.; lands in Matt. iv. 24. Lay. Ka.,-a,ciiu8a, is used belonging to for possessiona of, A.V.; =med especially of lying in bed from sickness (see for whose name was, A.V.; llfltertained for Mark i. 30; ii. 4; Luke v. 25; oh. ix. 33). It lodged, A. V. I.a.nds (xwpla); so John iv. answers to decumbo in Latin. Siok of fever 5; eh. i. 18, 19; iv. :34; v. :3, 8. The chief a.nd dysentery (wvpe.-ois r<al 3vue11nplq. ma.n of the isla.nd (.-,;; TrpWTq, .-ijs vl,uov). n <TuPexdµ.,11ov ). The terms here used are nil appears that, with his usue.l accurate 1.-uow- professional ones. Ilupe.-ds, in the plural, is lcdg-c gained on the spot (see eh. ui 22, of frequent occuJTence in Hippocrates, Are- note), St. Luke here gives to Publius his pe- tams, aud Galen, but elsewhere in the New culiar official title of primf/,/1. For Ciantar Testament al ways in the singular; 1,vu,,,..epla., (i. 215), quoted by Smith, gives a Greek in- only found here in the New Testament, is scription on a marble, which in his day was the regular technical word for a "dysen- standing near the go.tee of Citte. Vecchia, in tery," nnd is frequently in medical writers Malta, in which are the words, Ilpovaevs coupled with wupe,-ol or Trvpe.-os, as indi- 1,nr,vs Pwµ' wpw-ros M,71.,.-a.l,.,,,, K • .-.>..., "Prn- cating different ate.gee of the ee.me illness. dens, a Roman 1.-uight, diief of the Moltue." I.e.ying his hands on him. So Ma.rk xvi. The Latiu inscription, which was discovered 18, " 'l'hey shall Jay he.nde on the sick, and in li47, he.a the same title, MEL PRIHUS. they shall recover" (see also Matt. ix. 18 ; "chief of the Malt.ese." It may not im- xix. 13, 15; Mo.rk v. 2:3; vi. 5; vii. 32; viii. probably be the Greek e.nd Le.tin translation 23, 25; Luke iv. 40; xiii. 13 ; eh. ix. 12). It of the old Phc:enicia.n title of the " hee.d- is also spoken of as an accompaniment of man,'' in Hebrew iz:iit,,J, in Chaldee 2/N,. as prayer in confirmation, ordination, etc. It in the title ;i1;rht11 rllf\ the chief of the· Cap- has been remarked as curious that the two tivity. When the Romans succeeded the e.ctions of taking up serpents and healing Ce.rthe.ginie.ns in the pouesBion of the island, the sick by the laying on of hands should they would be likely to perpetuate the title be in such close juxtaposition botll here and of the chief magistrate. In this ce.se the in Mark xvi. 18. It suggests tl:.e thoug:ht chief we.a also e. Roll!an, e.s his name of whetller Luke had seen the passnge in St. Publius indicates. Alford says that he was Mark; or whether the writer of Jlfa1·k ui. 1.e.gatru to the Prietor of Sicily, and so 18 had seen eh. x.xviii. 8. Or is the coin- • Speaker's Commentary,' Kuinoel, Meyer, cidence e.ccidental, arising out of the facts? etc. B.eoeived 111 ; w·a1,,(&µe•os, only here Ver. 9.-And for so, A.V. and T.R.; the (e.nd Heh. xi. 17 in a different sense) for the rest for other,, A.V.: cured for healed, A. V. more common in:o1'ixoµa,_ Kuinoel quotes Ver. 10.-Sailed for departed, A.V.; from lElian, • Vs.r. Hist.,' 4, 19, the similar put on board for laded us with, A.V.; we phrase, "Tr,5,(,..,-o uv.-ous , • , ,plll.ot/>pd11ws : meded for were necea,ary, A.V. Honoured e.nd from 2 Mace. iii 9, 'l>lll.o<t>pdPUJS lnro ns with many honours. Kuinocl under- ..-oii ¥X*P•"'s lnro5,xl!Els. Entertained ua stands this in the sense of "gifts," " pre- ( l(EPUTEII); &ee oh. x. 6, 18, 23, :32; xxi. 16; sen te,'' w!Jich of course their destitute con- e.nd in the e.cti ve voice in Heh. :rii.i. 2. Cour- dition, e.fter losing all they had in the ship- t.eons!J; ,Plll.o,ppdvu,s, only here in the New wreck, would make very acrepte.hle. But Testament, but we find <f>lll.o<f>P"'"• courteous, thel'e is nothing in the words to suggest in 1 Pet. iii. 8. We must understand the this meaning, and, had it been so, Luke "w; " probably to include the centurion, St. would have simply stated it, as he does im- Paul, St. Luke, A.rillt.arehua, and posllibly medie.lely afterwards, when ho says that one or two others, but not thi, whole two they put on boe.i-d suoh Uungs a~ wo OH. xxvm. 1-31.] THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. 32l