The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 1 — Section 57

euch proeolytee In tlio grcnt cnpitnl of the happened ; for it was quite a mistake to henthou worl,I. Sojourners, os in eh. xvii. attribute it to drunkennesR. By the prophet 21, the stranaers sojoumin(J nt Athens. (5,11, not mrb); spoken by God through the Mnny good commcntators-Alforcl, Moyer, prophet. The full phrnHe occurs io Me.V. Leohlor (in Lnngo, 'Bibel. Wcrke '), eto,- i. 2:l; ii. 5, 15, And so it is added in ver.17, tlllto the words "Jows nnd proeclytes" as "saith God." llpplying to the whole preceding list, not Ver. 17.-Be for Olml6 to pass, A.V.; pour to the lloman sojourners only; but in tho.t forth. for pour out, A.V. In the last days. oaeo one would not expect Oretane and This does not agree with either the Hebrew .Arabians to follow. or the LXX. in the existing texts, where we Ver. 11.-0retans for Oret.es, A.V.; ,peale- read merely afterwards (j~ •::,r,~; µnit. T11uTa). ing for spealc, A.V.; miahty for wonderful, The phmse, " in the last days," whicll, A.V. (.,.(le µ,-y11.\,,11). occurs in Isa. ii. 2 and elsewhere, denotes Ver. 12.-Perplezed for in doubt, A.V. the days of Messfo.h. St. Peter is perhaps and 'l'.R. expounding the passage as relating to the, Ver. 13.-But others for others, A.V.; they days of Messiah ; or C'\);;:, n•:,~ 7 m"y have are filled with for /hese men are full of, A. V. been another reading. Saith God is no :Now wine; more liternlly, sweet wine. These part of Joel's prophecy, but Peter's words. mockers, men incapable of serious and You:r young men shall see visions, etc. The devout 11pprecio.tion of the work of the Holy order of this o.nd the following clause is Spirit, attributed the tension of feeling inverted. In the Hebrew and LXX. the which thby SllW, and the unintelligible old men 11re mentioned first. words which they heo.rd, to the effect of Ver. 18.-Yea and for and, A.V.; pour wine. So Festue said, " Paul, thou art mad." forth. for pour out, A.V.; in those days u,ill So the unbelieving Jews of Pontus and I pour for I will pour . . . in those days, Asia thouoht it strange that the Christians A.V. And they shall prophesy. These should live holily, o.nd spake evil of them words nrc not found in the Hebrew or the in consequence (l Pet. iv. 4, 14). So Ishmael LXX. The LXX. differ from the Hebrew mocked Isaac (Gen. xxi, 9); and so in all in the addition of µou after aou,\ous and times " they that are born after the flesh llo~,\as. '!'he Hebrew has merely " the do persecute them that are bol"D after the servants and the handmaids," men and Spirit" (Gol. iv. 29). women of servile condition. Vere. H-16.-Spal,efortli for said, A.V.; Ver. 19.-The heaven for heatien, A.V.; give ear unto for hearken to, A.V.; hath on for in, A.V. I will show (oc.,,n,,, as in been spoken for was spoken, A. V. :Bnt Peter, Matt. xxiv. 2!). This follows the Hebrew etc. Peter st11nds up before the eleven as nnd the Codex Alex11ndrinus. The V u.tican their prim11te, foremost in the nuthority of Codex has, 'l'hey will show or aive (awuwu,). action as in precedence of plo.ce ; and the Ill the heavens above, . . . on the earth apostles sto.nd up before the ~ultitud_e of beneath. Above and beneath. 111·0 not in the believers, as those to whom Christ comm1tted Hebrew or the LXX. With these excep- the government of his Church (see eh. i. 15). tions, the text of the LXX. is followed. Spake forth (&.,mp8e-y(11To, the so.me word as Vor. 20.-The day of the Lord come, that in ver. 4, "utterance"); implying the utter- great and notable day for that great and anoe of a loud and grave oration. In notable day of the LOTd come, A.V. and l Chron. xxvi. it is the phmse of the LXX. T.R. for those who prophesied with hnrps. From Ver. 21.-Be for acnne to pass, A.V. it is derived the word apophthegm, "a Ver. 22.-C/nlo you for among you, A.V.; rem11rkable saying" (Johnson's Dictionnry). miahty works for miracles, A. V. ; even as ye Ye that dwoll at Jerusalem; the s11me as yourselves lrnou, for as ye yourselves also those described in ver. 5. They were foreign know, A.V. Ye men of Israel. This titlo Jews who, either for the fenst or for other includes both the Jews of J udrea awl all causes, hnd t11kcn up their abode at Jeru- those of the dfapersion, to whatever tribe snlem, nnd o.re distinguished from the men they belonged. Approved of God .. Obserrn of Juel/Ila, the Jews who were nntives of the di~tinct reference to the m1rucles of Judma. Give ea.r (.?vwTt(,u8,); found only Christ, as Iha proofs tbo.t ho came from God, here in the Now Testo.ment, but frequent in the authenticating evidences of his Divine the LXX. &11 the rendering of the Hebrew mission. So St. Peter again, in his adtlress l'!~i\ (Gen. iv. 23; Job xxxiii. 1: Isa. i. 2). to Cornelius, deol11res how God anointed It is not classical Greek, and seems to have Jesus of Nuz11reth with tho Holy Ghost been coined by the LXX.., as the equivalent and with power, who weut ubout doing of the abovc-n11me1l Hebrew word. It seoms good, and henling all thnt were opprc,sed to be o. rhetol"iclll phrase. The thing to of the devil; for God wus with him (eh. x. be knO'UJn unto them wos thot they so.w the 38). The miracles of the gospel are, nml fulfllment of Joel'e pl"opheoy in wh11t had were intended to be, e. deruonstrntion of the  li2 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. [cH, IL 1-47,