{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/act008.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/act008.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/act008.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nDeath (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9\u03c1\u03ad\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9)\nLit., taking off. See on Luk 23:32.\nDevout\nSee on Luk 2:25.\nCarried to his burial (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b5\u03ba\u03cc\u03bc\u03b9\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd)\nOnly here in New Testament. Lit., to carry together; hence, either to assist in burying or, better, to bring the dead to the company (\u03c3\u03cd\u03bd) of the other dead. The word is used of bringing in harvest.\nStephen (\u03a3\u03c4\u03ad\u03c6\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd)\nMeaning crown. He was the first who received the martyr's crown.\nLamentation (\u03ba\u03bf\u03c0\u03b5\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd)\nLit., beating (of the breast). Only here in New Testament.\nMade havoc (\u1f10\u03bb\u03c5\u03bc\u03b1\u03af\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf)\nOnly here in New Testament. In Septuagint, Psalms 79:13, it is used of the laying waste of a vineyard by the wild boar. Compare Act 9:21, where the A. V. has destroyed, but where the Greek is \u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03b8\u03ae\u03c3\u03b1\u03c2, devastated. Canon Farrar observes: \"The part which he played at this time in the horrid work of persecution has, I fear, been always underrated. It is only when we collect the separate passages - they are no less than eight in number - in which allusion is made to this sad period, it is only when we weigh the terrible significance of the expressions used that we feel the load of remorse which must have lain upon him, and the taunts to which he was liable from malignant enemies\" (\"Life and Work of St. Paul\"). Note the imperfect, of continued action.\nPhilip\nThe deacon (Act 6:5). Not the apostle. On the name, see on Mar 3:18.\nChrist (\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03a7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03bd)\nNote the article, \"the Christ,\" and see on Mat 1:1.\nHe did (\u1f10\u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03b5\u03b9)\nImperfect. Kept doing from time to time, as is described in the next verse.\nTaken with palsies (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03bb\u03b5\u03bb\u03c5\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9)\nRev., more neatly, palsied. See on Luk 5:18.\nWere healed\nSee on Luk 5:15.\nUsed sorcery (\u03bc\u03b1\u03b3\u03b5\u03cd\u03c9\u03bd)\nOnly here in New Testament. One of the wizards so numerous throughout the East at that time, and multiplied by the general expectation of a great deliverer and the spread of the Messianic notions of the Jews, who practised upon the credulity of the people by conjuring and juggling and soothsaying.\nBewitched (\u1f10\u03be\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd)\nBetter as Rev., amazed. See on Act 2:7.\nThe great power of God\nThe best texts add \u1f21 \u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7, which is called, and render that power of God which is called great. They believed that Simon was an impersonated power of God, which, as the highest of powers, they designated as the great.\nBewitched\nAmazed, as Act 8:9.\nContinued with\nSee on Act 1:14.\nMiracles and signs (\u03c3\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u1fd6\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2)\nLit., signs and powers. See on Mat 11:20; Act 2:22.\nWhich were done (\u03b3\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2)\nThe present participle. Lit., are coming to pass.\nHe was amazed\nAfter having amazed the people by his tricks. See Act 8:9. The same word is employed.\nSamaria.\nThe country, not the city. See Act 8:5, Act 8:9.\nThey were (\u1f51\u03c0\u1fc6\u03c1\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd)\nSee on Jam 2:15. Rev., more literally, had been.\nIn the name (\u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u03c4\u1f78 \u1f44\u03bd\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1)\nLit., \"into the name.\" See on Mat 28:19.\nPerish with thee (\u03c3\u1f7a\u03bd \u03c3\u03bf\u1f76 \u03b5\u1f34\u03b7 \u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u1f00\u03c0\u03ce\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1\u03bd)\nLit., be along with thee unto destruction. Destruction overtake thy money and thyself.\nPart nor lot\nLot expresses the same idea as part, but figuratively.\nMatter (\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u1ff3)\nThe matter of which we are talking: the subject of discourse, as Luk 1:4; Act 15:6.\nRight (\u03b5\u1f50\u03b8\u03b5\u1fd6\u03b1)\nLit., straight.\nIf perhaps\nThe doubt suggested by the heinousness of the offence.\nThought (\u1f10\u03c0\u03af\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1)\nOnly here in New Testament. Lit., a thinking on or contriving; and hence implying a plan or design.\nIn the gall (\u03b5\u1f30\u03c2 \u03c7\u03bf\u03bb\u1f74\u03bd)\nLit., into. Thou hast fallen into and continuest in. Gall, only here and Mat 27:34. Gall of bitterness is bitter enmity against the Gospel.\nBond of iniquity (\u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b4\u03b5\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd \u1f00\u03b4\u03b9\u03ba\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nThou hast fallen into iniquity as into fetters. The word \u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b4\u03b5\u03c3\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd denotes a close, firm bond (\u03c3\u03cd\u03bd, together). It is used of the bond of Christian peace (Eph 4:3); of the close compacting of the church represented as a body (Col 2:19); and of love as the bond of perfectness (Col 3:14 :). See Isa 58:6.\nThe south (\u03bc\u03b5\u03c3\u03b7\u03bc\u03b2\u03c1\u03af\u03b1\u03bd)\nA contracted form of \u03bc\u03b5\u03c3\u03b7\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u03b1, midday, noon, which is the rendering at Act 22:6, the only other passage where it occurs. Rev. gives at noon in margin.\nDesert\nReferring to the route. On desert, see on Luk 15:4. There were several roads from Jerusalem to Gaza. One is mentioned by the way of Bethlehem to Hebron, and thence through a region actually called a desert.\nOf Ethiopia\nThe name for the lands lying south of Egypt, including the modern Nubia, Cordofan, and Northern Abyssinia. Rawlinson speaks of subjects of the Ethiopian queens living in an island near Mero, in the northern part of this district. He further remarks: \"The monuments prove beyond all question that the Ethiopians borrowed from Egypt their religion and their habits of civilization. They even adopted the Egyptian as the language of religion and of the court, which it continued to be till the power of the Pharaohs had fallen, and their dominion was again confined to the frontier of Ethiopia. It was through Egypt, too, that Christianity passed into Ethiopia, even in the age of the apostles, as is shown by the eunuch of Queen Candace.\"\nOf great authority (\u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03ac\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2)\nA general term for a potentate.\nCandace\nThe common name of the queens of Mero: a titular distinction, like Pharaoh in Egypt, or Caesar at Rome.\nTreasure (\u03b3\u03ac\u03b6\u03b7\u03c2)\nOnly here in New Testament. A Persian word.\nJoin thyself (\u03ba\u03bf\u03bb\u03bb\u03ae\u03b8\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9)\nSee on Luk 15:15; and Luk 10:11; and Act 5:12.\nUnderstandest thou what thou readest (\u1f06\u03c1\u03ac \u03b3\u03b5 \u03b3\u03b9\u03bd\u03ce\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2 \u1f03 \u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03b3\u03b9\u03bd\u03ce\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03c2);\nThe play upon the words cannot be translated. The interrogative particles which begin the question indicate a doubt on Philip's part.\nHow can I (\u03c0\u1ff6\u03c2 \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1 \u1f02\u03bd \u03b4\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03af\u03bc\u03b7\u03bd)?\nLit., for how should I be able? the for connecting the question with an implied negative: \"No; for how could I understand except,\" etc.\nThe place of the scripture (\u1f21 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c7\u1f74 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u1fc6\u03c2)\nStrictly, the contents of the passage. See on Mar 12:10; and Pe1 2:6.\nHe read\nRev., correctly, was reading; imperfect.\nHumiliation\nSee on Mat 11:29.\nGeneration\nHis contemporaries. Who shall declare their wickedness?\nOpened his mouth\nIndicating a solemn announcement. Compare Mat 5:2.\nThe best texts omit this verse.\nCaught away\nSuddenly and miraculously.\nAnd he went, etc. (\u1f10\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u03cd\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf \u03b3\u1f70\u03c1)\nA mistranslation. Rev., rightly, \"for he went.\" A reason is given for the eunuch's seeing Philip no more. He did not stop nor take another road to seek him, but went on his way.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Acts: Acts Chapter 8","type":"page"}