The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 1 — Section 361

enough ln eh. x. 45, seems on unnotural one Peter had brought the brethren from Joppa in the then condition of the Church, when (now specified ae eix) with him to ,J crusalem nil the members of it were "of tho cir- to substantiate his account; a plain indica- oumciaion," and there were no Gentile con- tion that he anticipatetl some opposition. verts at all. But the explanation of it ia Ver. 13.-Told for shO'IJJed, A. V.; the angel to be found in the circumstance of St. Luke for an angel, A.V. ; standing in his house himself being a Gentile; perhaps also, as and saying for in his house which stood and Alford suggests, in hie use of language ,aid unto him, A.V,; send for send men, suited to the time when be wrote. It is A..V. and T.R. ;fetch for call for, A.V. an indication, too, of the purpose of St. Lake Ver. 14.-Speak unto for tell, A.V.; thou in writing hie history, viz. to chronicle the ,halt be saved, th<n1,, etc., for thou and all thy progress of Gentile Christianity. Peter, lwuse shall be saved, A.V. having completed hie rounds (eh. ix. 32), Ver. 15.-Even as for as, A.V. returned to Jerusalem, which was still the Ver. 16.-.And I remembered for then obode of the apostles. He we.a, no donbt, remembered I, A. V. Thie ia a new incident anxious to commune with his brother apostles not mentioned in eh. x. The reference is upon the momentous matter of the Gentile to eh. i. 5. This saying of the Lord being converts; but he was at once attacked by thus referred to by Peter looks as if Peter the bigotry of the zealous J ewe. might have furnished many of the particulars Ver. 3.-Thou wentest in, eto. The cir- in the first twelve chapters to Luke. cumstance of his eating with Cornelius and his friends is not expressly recorded in eh. Ver. 17.-If for forasmuch . . . as, A.V.; x., but almost necessarily follows from what unto them for them, A.V.; did also for did, is there stated. It had been seized upon A.V.; when we for ieho, A.V.; uho fo, what, as the chief sting in their report by those A.V. The saying, Who was I, that I could who brought the news to Jerusalem. Ob- withstand (1<01,\.vua,)? corresponds to eh. x. serve the total absence of anything like 47, "Can any man forbid (1<01,\.v.-a,) water?" papal domination on the part of Peter. Ver. 18.-And when for when, A.V.; Ver. 4.-Began and expounded the matter then to the Gentiles also hath God granted unto them in 01'der for rehearsed the matter for then hath God also to the Gentiles granted, from the beginning, and ~pounded it by 01'der A. V. The fitness of the method adopted unto them, A..V. by the Divine wisdom for effecting this first Ver. 5.-Descending for descend, A..V.; reception of Gentiles into the Church npon were for l1ad been, A.V.; unto for to, A..V. an equal footing with the Jews is o.pparent Ver. 6.-The four-footed for Joor-footed, from its snccess in quieting the jealous A.V.; hea11en for air, A.V. prejudices of the Jews, and preserving th" Ver. 7.-.Also a voice for a '!loice, A.V. and peace of the Church. It w11s still, howernr, T.R.; rise for arise, A.V.; kill for slay, A.V. long before the exclusive spirit of J uu.aisru Ver. 8.-Ever for at any time, A.V. was quenched (see eh. xv. and Gal. i. G, Ver. 9.-.A voice ansu,ered the second time 7; ii. 4, 11, 12, 13; v. 2-12; Phil. iii. out of for-the voice answered me again from, 2, etc.). A.V. and T.R.; make for call, A.V. Ver. 19.-They therefore that for now they Ver. 10.-Thrice for three times, A.V. which, A. V.; tribulation for persecution, A. V.; Ver.11.-Forthwith for immediately, A.V.; Phcenicia for Phenice, A. V.; speaking for three men stood before the house in whic/1 we preaching, A. V.; sat1e only to Jews for but were for there were three men already come unto the Jews only, A. V. Soattered abroad; unto the l1ouse where I was, A.V. o.nd T.R.; as in eh. viii. 1, to which point of time the having been sent for sent, A.V. narrative now reverts. Tribulation (8>,./1/11s). Ver.12.-Malcing no distinction for nothing The word in eh. viii. 1 for "persecution" is doubting, A.V. and T.R. ; and •.. also for 1/,aryµJs. I'h.mcicia. "The strip of coast, moreover, A.V. Making no distinction. The one hundred and twenty miles long, and reading o.dopted here in the R.T. is lita1Cpl- about twelve broad, from the river Eleu- vavra instead of li1a1Cpw6µevov in the T.R. therus" to e. little south of Carmel, as far The verb li1a1Cplvew in the active voice means as Doro., including, therefore, Sidon and to "make a distinction" or "difference" 'l'yre, but excluding Cresarea. The n11me between one nnd o.nother, as in oh. xv. 9. was preserved in the great Tyria.n colony of But in the middle voice li1a1<plveu8a, meo.ns Co.rt!Jo.ge, as appears in the ethnio forrns, "to doubt" or "hesitate," as in eh. x. 20. l'wnus, Punious, and Pamicus, applied to It seems highly improbl\ble thl\t the two the Carthaginians. We are all familiar with passages, whioh ought to be idontioal, should the "Pucio Wars," Punica fides, the thus differ, while employing the very same 'Pmnulus' of Plaut us, eto. Cyprus lies off the verb. Some mo.nusoripts, whioh Alford co11st of Phcenioia, in sight of it, and was follows, omit the olause µ71li~v li1a1Cpwoµ,vov very early colonized by the Phamicians. altogether, These six brethren; showing th11t Philo 11,nd Josephus both speuk of the Jewish 338 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. [Oll. :U, 1-30,