{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/act022.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/act022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/act022.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nDefence (\u1f00\u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nSee on answer, Pe1 3:15.\nKept - silence (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ad\u03c3\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd \u1f21\u03c3\u03c5\u03c7\u03af\u03b1\u03bd)\nLit., gave quiet.\nAt the feet\nReferring to the Jewish custom of the pupils sitting on benches or on the floor, while the teacher occupied an elevated platform.\nGamaliel\nOne of the seven Rabbis to whom the Jews gave the title Rabban. Rab, \"teacher,\" was the lowest degree; Rabbi, \"my teacher,\" the next higher; and Rabban, \"our teacher,\" the highest. Gamaliel was a liberal Pharisee. \"As Aquinas among the schoolmen was called Doctor Angelicus, and Bonaventura Doctor Seraphicus, so Gamaliel was called the Beauty of the Law. He had no antipathy to the Greek learning. Candor and wisdom seem to have been features of his character\" (Conybeare and Hewson). See Act 5:34 sq.\nInstructed (\u03c0\u03b5\u03c0\u03b1\u03b9\u03b4\u03b5\u03c5\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2)\nSee on chastise, Luk 23:16.\nAccording to the perfect manner (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u1f70 \u1f00\u03ba\u03c1\u03af\u03b2\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1\u03bd)\nLit., according to the strictness. See on perfect understanding, Luk 1:3; and diligently, Act 18:25. Compare, also, Act 18:26; Act 26:5.\nZealous (\u03b6\u03b7\u03bb\u03c9\u03c4\u1f74\u03c2)\nOr a zealot. On the word as a title, see on Mar 3:18.\nWay\nSee on Act 9:2.\nEstate of the elders (\u03c0\u03c1\u03b5\u03c3\u03b2\u03c5\u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd)\nThe eldership or Sanhedrim.\nWent\nThe imperfect: was journeying.\nAbout noon\nNot mentioned in ch. 9.\nOf Nazareth (\u1f41 \u039d\u03b1\u03b6\u03c9\u03c1\u03b1\u1fd6\u03bf\u03c2)\nLit., the Nazarene. Not mentioned in ch. 9.\nHeard not (\u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u1f24\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd)\nThe verb is to be taken in the sense of understood, as Mar 4:33; Co1 14:2, which explains the apparent discrepancy with Act 9:7.\nFor the glory of that light\nThe cause of his blindness is not stated in ch. 9.\nA devout man, etc\nIn Act 9:10, he is called a disciple. Paul here \"affirms that he was not introduced to Christianity by an opponent of Judaism, but by a strict Jew\" (Gloag).\nStood (\u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u1f70\u03c2)\nMore correctly, as Rev., \"standing by (\u1f10\u03c0\u03af).\"\nReceive thy sight (\u1f00\u03bd\u03ac\u03b2\u03bb\u03b5\u03c8\u03bf\u03bd)\nBetter, look up. See the following words: I looked up upon him. The word admits of both translations, to look up and to recover sight.\nI looked up upon him\nSome unite both meanings here: I looked up with recovered sight. So Rev., in margin.\nThe God of our fathers - Just One\nA conciliatory touch in Paul's speech, mentioning both God and Christ by their Jewish names. Compare Act 3:14; Act 7:52.\nHath chosen (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03b5\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03c1\u03af\u03c3\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf)\nSee on Act 3:20. Better, as Rev., appointed.\nAll men\nHe keeps back the offensive word Gentiles (Act 9:15).\nWash away (\u1f00\u03c0\u03cc\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9)\nSee on Act 16:33.\nI was in a trance (\u03b3\u03b5\u03bd\u03ad\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bc\u03b5 \u1f10\u03bd \u1f10\u03ba\u03c3\u03c4\u03ac\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9)\nRev., more correctly, I fell into a trance; the verb meaning to become, rather than the simple to be. On trance, see note on astonishment, Mar 5:42; and compare note on Act 10:10.\nMartyr\nBetter, as Rev., witness. The special sense of the word was probably not in use at this time. See on Act 1:22. It occurs, however, in Rev 2:13; Rev 17:6.\nStanding by\nSee on Act 22:13.\nConsenting (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c5\u03b4\u03bf\u03ba\u1ff6\u03bd)\nSee on allow, Luk 11:48; and compare Act 8:1.\nSlew\nSee on Luk 23:32.\nGentiles\n\"The fatal word, which hitherto he had carefully avoided, but which it was impossible for him to avoid any longer, was enough....The word 'Gentiles,' confirming all their worst suspicions, fell like a spark on the inflammable mass of their fanaticism\" (Farrar, \"Life and Work of Paul\").\nThey gave him audience (\u1f24\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03bf\u03bd)\nThe imperfect. Up to this word they were listening.\nLifted up their voice, etc\n\"Then began one of the most odious and despicable spectacles which the world can witness, the spectacle of an oriental mob, hideous with impotent rage, howling, yelling, cursing, gnashing their teeth, flinging about their arms, waving and tossing their blue and red robes, casting dust into the air by handfuls, with all the furious gesticulations of an uncontrolled fanaticism\" (Farrar). Hackett cites Sir John Chardin (\"Travels into Persia and the East Indies\") as saying that it is common for the peasants in Persia, when they have a complaint to lay before their governors, to repair to them by hundreds or a thousand at once. They place themselves near the gate of the palace, where they suppose they are most likely to be seen and heard, and there set up a horrid outcry, rend their garments, and throw dust into the air, at the same time demanding justice. Compare Sa2 16:13.\nExamined (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac\u03b6\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9)\nOnly here and Act 22:29. Not found in classical Greek. Apocrypha, Susanna, ver. 14.\nBy scourging (\u03bc\u03ac\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03be\u03b9\u03bd)\nLit., with scourges.\nBound him with thongs (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03ad\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u1f31\u03bc\u1fb6\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd)\nAgainst the rendering of the A. V. is the word \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03ad\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1\u03bd, they stretched forward, in allusion to the position of the victim for scourging, and the article with thongs; \"the thongs,\" with reference to some well-known instrument. If the words referred simply to binding him, with thongs would be superfluous. It is better, therefore, to take thongs as referring to the scourge, consisting of one or more lashes or cords, a sense in which it occurs in classical Greek, and to render stretched him out for (or before) the thongs. The word is used elsewhere in the New Testament of a shoe-latchet (Mar 1:7; Luk 3:16; Joh 1:27).\nRoman\nSee on Act 16:37.\nSum (\u03ba\u03b5\u03c6\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03af\u03bf\u03c5)\nLit., capital. The purchase of Roman citizenship was an investment. Under the first Roman emperors it was obtained only at large cost and with great difficulty; later, it was sold for a trifle.\nI was free-born (\u1f10\u03b3\u1f7c \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03b3\u03b5\u03b3\u03ad\u03bd\u03bd\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9)\nLit., I am even so born, leaving the mind to supply free or a Roman. Better, as Rev., I am a Roman born.\nBrought Paul down\nTo the meeting-place of the Sanhedrim: probably not their usual place of assembly, which lay within the wall of partition, which Lysias and his soldiers would not have been allowed to pass.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Acts: Acts Chapter 22","type":"page"}