The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 1 — Section 164

filled for t08r8 filled, A.V.: jealowy Cor Lord") stand in pa.rallel clansea. The R. V. indignati<m, A.V. The high priest rose up, inconsistently renders the first "Bn an~el," H wns high time for him and hie friends a.nd the eeconcl" the glory." In like rnBnnor the Sadduceea to be up and doing, if they ,Pwvh Kupfov (eh. vii. 31) is "tho voice of wished to stop the eprca.ding or the faith or the Lor,!;" a.ncl in Pd. xxix. (xxviii., Sep- Jesus Christ and tho Resurrection. Which tuagint) 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, the LXX. have ia the eeot of the Sadduceea (eh. iv. 1, 2, uniformly ,pwvt, Kvpfou for n~,; ':>ip (see eh. note). It does not appeo.r that Anno.a him- viii. 26, note). Out (comp. eh. xii. 7, etc.). self was a. So<lducee, but his son was, and Ver. 20.-Go ye for ao, A.V. In the hence it is highly probo.blo tho.t tho Sacl- temple; not in the house, but in the courts. ducees should have o.tto.ched themselves to The worda of thio Life; i.e. thia life wuich Annas, and mo.de o. tool or him for suppress- is in Christ, whom ye preach, through hie in"' the doctrine of the Resurrection. The resurrection from ti,o dead (comp. John vi. ~ed; a1peu,s (see eh. xv. 5; xx.iv. 5, 1_4: GS, "Thou ha.at the words ot' eternal life;" xxvi. 4: xxviii. 22). The word was applied see too t.b.o whole chapter a.nd 1 John i. first by J ewe to Christio.ns,. o.nrl then by 1-3). Christio.ns to sects (1 Cor. x1. 19 : Gal. v. Ver. 21.-Thi, for thnt, A.V.; a1,out da!f- 20; 2 Pet. ii. l). Jealousy scarcely so well break for early in the mornioq, A.V.; expresses the idea. of (ijAor here as indigna- pl'ison-house for prison, A. V. About day- tion does. In the First Epistle of Clement, bre3.k. In the l,ot climate of Jerusalem (r;Aor is applied to the anger of Cain, of people are about very early in the morniug Joseph's brethren, of the Israelites against (comp. Matt. xxvi. 57, 75). But the high Moses, of the persecution of St. Peter and pl'iest, etc. The narro.ti vc would run morn St. Po.ul (iv., v.). ~t is only oeco.si_onally clearly if the passage were translated more tho.t it means that kmd of anger winch wo literally, Now when the hiqh priest and call jealouay. The high priest crnd his they that were with him werli come (to the party were indignant at the defiance of councill-cho.mber the t'ext day) thc!f calle.l their authority, and at the success of the togetl1er, etc. The narrative is taken np doctrine which they hnd made it a. special from vers. 17, 18. Having (ver. IS) put object to put down. the a.postlcs in prison, they met the ne:i:t Ver. 18.-Laid hands (as eh. iv. 3, A.V. morning to decide how to punish them. and R.V.) for laid their hands, A.V. and The council (Ti'> uuv,lipwv); i.e. in the Hebr:120- T.R.; in public ward for in the common prison, Greek, the Sanhedrim, the great council of A.V. Laid ha.nde, eto. Laid their hands is the nation, consisting of seventy-two mem- equally 1ight, even when .. ~.,...,., is omitted, bers, usually presided over by the high as the trausla.tion of .-cl:r x•ipar. There is priest. It is frequently mentioned in the no difference in tho sense in the two render- New Testament (Matt. v. 22; x:ui. 5fl; ings, or in the two pa.ssagee, though in eh. Mark xiv. 55, etc.; and eh. xxii. 30 ; :u.iii. iv. 3 tho phrase is br,/3ct;l.ov ctb.,-oir .,-cl:, x•ipctr, 1, etc.; above eh. iv. 15). On the present a.nd here J1r,/3ctAov .-cl:r xeipctr ..b.,-wv J1rl Toor occasion, besides the members of the San- bo.,..,-tl;1.011r. In publio wa.rd. The A.V. is hedrim, there were gathered together a.l.l more idiomatic a.nd expresses exactly wha.t the senate (-yepovula.) of the children of is meant by the phrase 1"7/P~.,... 071µ011,'f• Israel, a.n expression which occurs only Moyer quotes the phrnsee .,-1, 071µ011,ov in here, but which seems to comprise all the Thucydidee, a.nd o1,dct 071µ.ou,a in Xenophon elder8 of the Jews, even though they were for the common prison (see eh. iv. 3). not members of the Sl\nhedrim. But some Ver. 19.-.An angel for the angel, A.V.: (Schleusner, Heinrich, etc.) understand it eut tor forth, A.V. An a.ngel, eto. The as merely another phrase for the Sa1;hed~im, phl'llse is a transla.tion of the Old Testa.- added for explanation a.nd a.mplifica.tion. ment phro.se n~,: 'iJ!:t?t;!• But in Hebrew it The council, of course, were ignorant of the is impossible to insert the definite a.rticle escl\pe of tho prisoners. Tho prison-honae bclme nm'., and therefore the phra.se is (oeuµo,.,--f,pwv); "prison" (A. V.) ropreseuta properly ie'ndered, "the angel of the Lord." <1>uAct1<~ in tho next verse. In the po.ssage before us and other similar Ver. 22.-T71e officers that came for t0he-ra passages, Kup,or seems to stand for n~,'., the officer, came and, A.V. and T.R.: and and therefore the rendering of the A.V. tl1ey returned for they returned, A.V. would seem to be right, in spite of what is Ver. 23.-Pri,on-house for prisun, A.V., ea.id by eminflnt gmmmarilms to the con- a.a in ver. 21; we found, shut in all safety for trary. Comps.re, too, the phra.eee 6obv elp~v11s truly found we ,hut toiih all aafety, A.V.; (Luke i. 19); ~T/1'" 0<oiJ (Luke ill. 2): </?!"1111 at the doors for 1Ditlio11t before the doors, A.V. eownor (iii. 4): a.nd see especially Luke u. 9, a.nd T.R. But the ta-ithi" e.t the end of tllf where liyyeAor Kup!ou (" tho 1mgel of the verse soems io require the urit110 ut of thti Lord,") u<l 5tl(ct K11p!o11 (" the glory of the T.R, rno THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. [011. v. 1-42.