mention It, we <'nnnot tell. The Vener• ble Agrippa's deA.th, It Is corroborated in th~ Dede (' Prolog. in Expos. in Act. A poet.'), !710St remnrkcthle manner by the narrati VP, llnroniue, nnd other o.uthoritice of tlrn rn Josephus (' Ant. Jud.,' xix. viii. 2). H0 Church of Rome, eny ho went to Romo, nnd Urnre tclla that when he harl been thrr·o commenced hie opiecopate of Romo nt this years Kin.'.{ of all Jurl::eCL ,see ver. 1, note) h~ time. Dr. Lightfoot thinks it more probable went to Cresarea. And tll:,t on occasion of that ho wont to Antioch (' Comm. on Acts,' a festival celehrated "for the safety of in vol. viii. pp. 273, 289). Somo gueee Cresa.r" (some think to celebrate hi.3 return Crosnreo.; but there is no cluo really. from Britain, while others, ae Wieseler. Ver. l'J.-Gw,rds for keepers, A.V.: think that they were the ordinary Quinquen• tarried there for there almde, A.V. nali", celebrated in the provinces), ho Ver. 20.-Noio he for and Herod, A.V. exhibited games and spectacles in honour and T.R.; and for but, A.V.; they asked/or of Claudius. On the second day of tbeso for desired, A.V.; fedfrD'Tn for nourished by, gnmes, when a vBSt number of people wera A.V. Highly displeased (Ovµ.oµa.xwv); only 113sembled in the theatre, Agrippa ea.me in, here in the New Testament, but used by clothed in a garment wholly mflc!e of silver, Polybius, ae well as the kindred word which reflected the rays of the morning sun ,j,uxoµaxeiv, in the seneo of having a hostile with a most dazzlin-; and awful brilliancy. spirit agaiust any one, maintaining II strong Whereupon his flatterers crietl out that lle resentment. It describes a state of feeling wa.a a god, and offered prayer to him. The which may exist before war, during war, king, he adds, did not rebuke them nor and after ,war when only a hollow pence reject their impious flattery. He was has been mo.de. Tyre and Sidon at this presently seized with a violent pain in hie time were semi-independent cities under the bowels, which soon became eo intense that Romo.n supremacy, '.rhe occasion of Herod's he was carried out of the theatre to his displeasure is not known. Chamberlain; palace, and expired after ii ve days of ex- literally, the officer over his bedchamber-his cruciating pain. It is curious that in the chief groom of the chambers-an office above account Josephus says that Agrippa which would give him ea.ey access to the saw an owl sitting over his head, which he king's private ear. Was fed. This com- recognized as a. messenger (.fyye>.ov) of evil merce, by which Palestine supplied Tyre to him. Eusebius, quoting Josephus(' Eccl. and Sidon with wheat in return for timber, Hist.,' ii. x.), leaves out thu owl, and says was ae old ae the time of Solomon at least that Agrippll saw an an:;el sitting over his (1 Kings v. 9, 11); see too Ezek. xxvii. 17, head, whom he recognizer! as the cause of his o.nd the decree of Caligula., in which he sufferings. Whiston, in a note, seeks to speaks of the large exportation of corn to exonerate Eusebius from unfairness in the Sidon from the Jewish harbour of Joppa. quotation, by suggesting that the manuscript (' Ant. Jud.,' xiv. x. 6). of Eusehius is in this place corrupt; but Ver. 21.-Arrayed himself for arrayed, Bede quotes Josephus just as Eusebius A.V.: and sat for sat, A.V. and T.R.: on does, unlel!ll perchance he is quoting him at the throne for upon his throne, A.V. On the second hand from Eusebius. throne. Bijµa. does not mean "the king's Ver. 25.-Ministration for ministry, A.. V.; throne," and is nowhere so rendered in the taking for and took, A..V. The fact here A.V. but hero. It means any raised stnge stated of their taking John Mark with them, or platform upon which a judge, or an orator, is very interesting in connection with vcr. or any one wishing to address an assembly, 12. Whether or no Saul and Barnabas sto.nds. Here it means a high platform in were in the house of Mary o.t the time of the theatre at Cmsa.rea, from whence the Peter's deliverance from prison, they evi- king, raised above the rest of the audience, dently went there shortly before or shortly could both see the go.mes and make his after. As regards the sequence of events speech to the people. related in this chapter, it is by no means Ver. 22.-Shouted for gave a shout, A.V.: necessary to suppose that Barnabas and the 'floice for it is the tioice, A.V. Saul did not leave Jerusalem till after the Ver. 23.-An angel for the angel, A.V. (oh. death of Agrippa.. Luke, connecting the v. 19, note). death of Agrippa with his murcler of Ja.mes Ver. 2'1.-The word of God grew ud and his intended murder of Peter, ns Euee- multiplied in Jerueo.lem and the neighbour- bius and Chrysostom and others rightly say, hood, in spite of Agrippo.'s persecution. would nnturally follow up the narrative of The blood of the mnrtyr Jnmes was tho the persecution by the narrative of tho scod of the Ohurch, and the speedy persecutor's awful deGth : and then go ou vengeance taken by God upon the perso- to relGte the return of the two apostles to eutor doubtless gllve fresh coumge to his Antioch in continuation of eh. xi. 30. w~ people to confess the Na.me-of Jesus Christ. ha,e no means of deciding whether, iu poi11t A~ regards the prepeqing 11~ut of HefO(I of f~t, they feturQ.ed before or ~ter 'J'l·lJll ACTS (Jll' 'l'IJF: Aros·rr,Es. [en, xn. 1-21!,
Ap;rippll'R dllnth. H arornR moRt probnble , .Jormialem longor thRn uni neoea1u1 for thnt tlio.r r<•I 11rn11,l hoforo, ns, undor the the fuUllm.ent of tholr mlnl1trat.lon, oirouUlllt.iLDollll, thoy would not tarry at