The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 1 — Section 99

gate, exactly opposite the gate of the temple the Christ (as expressed in the word tM itself (li11-r11<pu -rijr -rov 11aov ,ru,\ijr); in the Nazarene) as well as his power and glory. lntter be says very distinctly that women were Ver. 7.-Raised for lifted, A.V.; his allowed to enter through the great gate on anlde-bones for ancle bones, A. V. St. Luke's the east. With such discrepancies in the medical knowledge discerns the cause of description of the only eye-witness whose the lameness-a weakness in the ankle- evidence has been preserved, it is impossible bones. to speak with certainty. Dnt it seems Ver. 8.-And leaping up, he stood, and probable that there were two gates on the began to walk, for and he, leaping up, stood east-one the beautiful 11nd costly ga.te of and walked, A.V.; he entered for erttered, Corinthian bro.ea, elaborately described by A.V. Into the temple (Tb l•p&v). He passed Josephus, through which the women did through the gate, and mounted the fifteen pass; the other the greater g11te, just oppo- steps which led into the li-y,ov (see note to site to and above the beautiful gate (1, ver. 2). u,r~p -r¾v Kopw9lav), lea.ding from the court Ver. 10.-Tool, knowledge of him for knew, of the women to the inner court ; and that A.V. Wonder and amazement (Bd.µ.ffos); Josephus bas confounded one with the any very strong emotion of awe, or admira.- other in his descriptions. Anyhow, the tioa, or astonishment. It occurs elsewhere beautiful gate was probably on the e11st. Its only in Luke iv. 36, where it describes the correct na.me is said to be the gate ofNicanor. awe and amazement which came upon tho•e The temple. It must be remembered that who witnessed the ea.sting out of the unclean the whole platform, including the porches, spirit from the ma.n in the synagogue at and the courts of the Gentiles and of the Caperna.um. The verb 9r,JJ,/J<c,, occurs in eh. women, and the outer court and the court of ix. 6 in the T.R.,and is rendered" astonished" the priests, woe called -ro /ep&v; the actual in the A.V., but is omitted in tbe text of honse was called o 11ad s; that part of the the R.V.; elsewhere only in Mark. i. 27; lepov to which only Israelites were admitted, x. 24, 32. "Erc9a,.f!Jos occurs once in ver. 11 was called -rb cl-y,ov. Josephus also divides of this chapter; and ,rc9aJJ,/J<oJJ,a., in Mark iL the precincts into the first, e~cond, and third 15; xiv. 33; xvi. 5, 6; lrc<f-rru1,s, an ecstasy, lep&v. '.l'he description of this lnme man mostly Ulled of a state of transport, as eh. x. la.id at the gate of the temple to ask alms 10; xi. 5; xxii. 17. But in the LXX. (Gen. is very similar to that in Luke xvi. 20 of xxvii. 33), Mark v. 42; xvi. 8 ; and Luke Lazarus laid at the rich man's gate; only v. 26, it is used, as here, for a violent that the word for laid is in St. Luke /,,.,. emotion of astonishment and amazement. f!J"-11-ro, and here is frl9ovv. Ver. 11.-He for the lame man which was Ver. 3.-To receive an alms for an alms, healed, A.V. and T.R. The words of the A.V. and T.R. The R.T. ho.s l"-•'111'-otr.$nw T.R. are thought to have crept into the text Aaf!J•iv. from the portions read in church beginning Ver. {.-Fastening his eyes (a.T<vlo-as elr here, vAlich made it necessary to supply ab-rJv). Comp. Luke iv. 20, "The eyes of them. Held; by the hand or otherwise ; all were fostened upon him ('flo-av a.-revl• not clafle to in the spiritual sense. The (ov-ru);" and oh. xxii. 56, "looking stead- poroh that is called Solomon's. Josephus fastly." St. Luke olso Ulles the phrase in oh. tell~ us that King Solomon built up with i. 10; iii.12; vi.15; vii. 55; but it is found masonry only the eastern side of the nowhere else in the New 'feetament except temple enclos1ue, and that upon the 2 Cor. iii. 7, 13. cntiticial foundation thus formed one O'Toa, VP-r. 5.--lt'rom for of, A.V. or covered colonnade, was built, the other Ver. 6.-But for then, A.V.; what I hafle sides of the temple in Solomon's time being that for such as I have, A. V. ; walk for rise naked and bare of buildings, hut that in up and wall,, A. V. nnd T.R. In the name of process of time, and by an enormous lesus Christ of Nazareth. What Peter meant expenditure of treasure, the ground wus by" in the Name," he clearly explains in filled up, levelled, and made firm by the vers. 12 and 16, where he shows that they masonry of huge walls all round, and then did not work the miracle by their own power the circuit of buildings was completed. or godliness, but that tbe iame man wo.s healed This eastern 17Tod., or ~olonnade, was called by the Name of Jesus, in which he believed. Solomon's porch (see John L 23). Greatly Bo our Lord said of himself, '' I am come in wondering; l1t9a,.f!Jo, (see note on ver. 10). my Father's Name" (John v. 43; comp. Ver. 12.-.At this man for at this, A.V.; John x. 25). Observe the full designation fa:iten ye your eyes for look !/B so earnestly, of our Lord as" Jesus Christ of Nazareth" A.V.; godlina,a for holiness, A.V.; hi-m for (-roii Na(o,pa!ou), BS in eh. iv. 10, and comp. this man, A.V. The him at the end of the Matt. xi. 23. The faith which was the oon- verse requires that the man should have dition of the healing ( /,rl -rJI ,r/o-n,, ver. been previously mentioned. The A.V. felt 11;) e111br~e<t tile lnimiliatjon an<t ~sa of this, an<t •o, h11ving tak;eu lirl -rouTo/ 11s al this, 94 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. [oH. m. 1-28,