his prenching to his bmtrel1!. How different deacons the choice was by the people, how this address t,c, the heathen L,·ce.onie.na from indic•ted we are not told (oh, vi. 5); the those to Jews e.nd proselytes 1• Hore he leads question here, on whioh commentators dis• them from m,ture to God ; there from pro- agree, is whether the use of the word phecy to J esns. X"PoTo"'"' indicates voting by the people, Yer. lS.-The •m,illifud& for the poop'/,e, selection by the apostles, or sim pie creation A. Y.; from doing tor that they had not or Rppnintment.. As X"f'OTovl1uavrH is pre- do"e. A.Y. • dicated of Puul and Barnabe.s, it cannot Y,r. 19.-But tlie,re came Jews tliit1,er for possibly refer to voting by the people, who a11d there came thither certain Jews, A.V.; Rre incluJed in ihe al,Tois as tho~e on whose orid hai:i11g perru.aded the multitude...,, they bel,alf the x«porovla was made. It seems -', 011 rd fortcho perFUaded the peopk, and )ur.-i"g simplest and most in accordo.noe with the .<,,ned, A.Y.; and dragqea for d,·etD, A.V.; classical use of the word and its use in eh, ii.at. he wa8 dead for he had been dead, A.V. x. 41 (wpotc•x•'f'oro1171µ./1101s), to toke it in the Eut there oame Jewa, etc. Obse1·ve the per- sense of creation or appointment (see Steph., si~teut enmity of the unbelieving Jews. The • These.ur.'). '£here is no reference to the same fickleness of the multitude which led laying on of hands. Elders (see oh. xi. 30, 1i1ose who had cried," Hosanna I" to turn note; :u. 17; and especie.lly Titus i. 5, 7, r,iund e.nd sny,"Urncify himl"hereledthose where we see that wp•ufJunpos was synony- \Yho would have worshipped Paul as a gnd, mous with ,wlutcon-os). From 1rp•ufJ0Tepos llOW to stone him AS e. blaspl.emer. This is, is formed prestel', priut, in French prestre1 <louLtle,s, the ins:ance to which St. Paul pretre. Cump. eh. xiii. 3, for fosting and "1lu<les when he says" Once was I stoned," pwyer as nccorupnniments of ordine.tion. (2 Cor. xi. 25). Hence in the Cilurch ordinations e.re pre- Yer. 20.-But for houibeit, A.V.; emered ceded by the Ember days. They commended for came, A. V. ; on the morrou, for the next them to the Lord (comp. r.h. xx. 32). In ,iay, A.V.; uient .forU,, for departed, A.V. ver. 26 tile word used ii, 1rapalielio,ue11oi. It is pleasing to observe the fidelity of the Vers. 24, 25.-They passed through for after converts, w·ho, in the face of violence and they had passed throt1.9l,.out, A.V.; and for neath, clave to the apostle, even when they U,,ey, A.V.; spoken for preached, A.V.: to thought he was dead. Ii does not appear for into, A. V. Paul e.nd Barnabas had come how Barnabas escaped. . from Cyprus to Perga (see eh. xiii. 13, note). Ver. 21.-Made ma.ny di.aeipT.a for taught Thence to Antioch, Iconiu.m, Lystra, and suing, A. V. ; returned for returned again, Derbe. They now returned from Derbe by A.V.; to Antioch for Antioch, A.V. Made Lystra, Iconium, Antioch, Perga. But, mc.nydisciples(µa071T~(Ta,r,-ES itcavovs); comp. instead of taking ship at Perga,after preach- Jllatt. nviii 19. What admiriible const.a.ncy ing the Word there they went down to thus to run fresh risks to life and limb in Attalia, now .A.dalia or Satalia, the chief Drder to wi.u souls to Christ I seaport of Pamphylia, some miles west of Ver. 22.-Exlwrting for and e:i:horting, the mouth of the Cestrns, probably hearing A.V. ; tl,rou.gh many tribul.a1ion, we mtJ.St fur that a Bhi p was about to sail thence to ,oe mtJ.St tltrou.gh ·ntJ.Ch tribul.a.tion, A. V. St. Antioch. It does not e.ppear that they made Paul spoke fro1., his own experience: "In any converts or even preached at Atte.li&. labours more abundant, in stripes above 'Ver. 26.-Tliey sailed for sailed, A. V.; mea.sw·e, in prisons more frequent, in deaths committed for recommended, A.V.; had ful- oft," etc. (2 Cor. :ri. 2~27; see too 2 Tim. filled for fulfilled, A.V. iii 10-1~). It is very tonching to see the Ver. 27.-All things for all, A. V.; hOtD tt:u<lcr care of the apo8tles for the young con- that for hOtD, A.V.; a door for the door, A.V. n,rts, lest they should full awa.1 in t~e of A door. The door is preferable, because persecutic,n (see eh. xv. 36; I These. w. I, "the fe.ith" limits the door to one kind of 5, 8; I Pet. v. 8-10). opening. In Col. iv. 3 the case is e. little Ver. 23.-.A.ppointed for them for ordained ditferent both in the A.V. and the R.V., them, A. V. (x<tpoTov+,,nz,rrn); I.ad believed though in the latter "the door of the Word" for believed., A. V. The original meaning of would be a truer rendering. Observe how "«pcrrov•"' is "to stretch out the hand." and the leading idea of the narrative is the con- tlie substa11tive xupoTov•a is ueed in the version of the Gentiles. (See lutroduotion LXX. of Isa. lviiL 9 for" the putting forth to the Acts.) 01 the finger" of the A.. V. But I.he comll;lon Ver. 28.-They tarried for there tliey meaning of the verb is " to vote by stretcl11ng abode, A.V.; no little for long, A.V. Bishop 'lut tile hand" and hence "to elect" by & Pearson reckons it n little more than n yee.r; 61how of bnnds (2 Cor. viii. 19), or simply Lewin, " about a year: " Renau, " several "to appoir.t," without any reference ~voting. months.'' No e.ccurate statcment can be In the cilvice of an apostle the eled1on was gathered from St. Luke•~ in<lcfinite expres• by lot (eh. i. 26), iu the appointment of sion. With this chapter closes tho aoconnl OH, ilV, 1-28,] 1'11E AOTS or THE APOSTLES. 489
of St. Paul's first missionary tour. Cony- occupied "about two years; " Wieseler (p. beo.ro oml Howson (pp. 177, 213) assign to 224), "more than one year; " but Renan it o. duraLion of about nine months, from assigns to it" five years" (" Saint Panl," p. early epri11g, March, to November, when the 55). "Conjectural estimates vary between sea would be olosed; bringing him to Parga two and eight years " (' Speaker's Com- in May, and thence for the next five or six mentary'). Lewin's estimate is, perhaps, the months into the mountains of Pisidia, where most probable. Whatever the exact period it was the cust.om for the inhabi tauts of the may have been, it was a time fruitful in lowlands to congregate during the hot coneeq uences to the immortal intereeg of months. Others, however, as Lewin (pp. mankind. 156, 157), think the oircuit must have