{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/act024.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/act024.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/act024.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nAn orator (\u1fe5\u03ae\u03c4\u03bf\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2)\nAn advocate. The Jews, being little acquainted with Roman forms and laws, had to employ Roman advocates.\nVery worthy deeds (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c1\u03b8\u03c9\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd)\nFrom \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c1\u03b8\u03cc\u03c9, to set upright. Hence, a success consequent on right judgment ; a right action. The best texts, however, read \u03b4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c1\u03b8\u03c9\u03bc\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd, settings right; amendments. Thus the sentence reads, literally, obtaining much peace through thee, and amendments taking place for this nation through thy providence, we accept, etc.\nProvidence (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd\u03bf\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nForethought. Providentia Augusti (the providence of the emperor) was a common title on the coins of the emperors.\nBe tedious (\u1f10\u03b3\u03ba\u03cc\u03c0\u03c4\u03c9)\nSee on hindered, Pe1 3:7. The meaning is, rather, \"that I may not further hinder thee, or detain thee.\nClemency (\u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03b5\u03b9\u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u1fb3)\nSee on gentle, Pe1 2:18.\nA few words (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03c4\u03cc\u03bc\u03c9\u03c2)\nLit., concisely. From \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03c4\u03ad\u03bc\u03bd\u03c9 to cut down or cut short.\nPestilent fellow (\u03bb\u03bf\u03b9\u03bc\u1f78\u03bd)\nLit., a plague or pest.\nRingleader (\u03c0\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7\u03bd)\nOriginally, one who stands first on the right of a line; a file-leader. Thus Thucydides says that all armies when engaging are apt to thrust outward their right wing; and adds, \"The first man in the front rank (\u1f41 \u03c0\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c3\u03c4\u03ac\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2) of the right wing is originally responsible for the deflection\" (v., 71). Here, of course, metaphorically, as A. V. and Rev. Only here in New Testament.\nSect (\u03b5\u1f31\u03c1\u03ad\u03c3\u03b5\u03c9\u03c2)\nSee on heresies, Pe2 2:1.\nNazarenes\nThe only passage in scripture where this term is used to denote the Christians. See on Mat 2:23.\nTo profane (\u03b2\u03b5\u03b2\u03b7\u03bb\u1ff6\u03c3\u03b1\u03b9)\nThe word is akin to \u03b2\u03b7\u03bb\u03cc\u03c2, threshold, and \u03b2\u03b1\u03af\u03bd\u03c9, to step; and its fundamental idea, therefore, is that of overstepping the threshold of sacred places. The word profane is the Latin pro fanum, in front of the sanctuary; that which is kept outside the fane because unholy.\nWe laid hold\nThe best texts omit all after these words as far as by examining.\nFrom whom\nPaul. It would refer to Lysias if the omitted passage above were retained.\nAssented (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03ad\u03b8\u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf)\nBut the best texts read \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c0\u03ad\u03b8\u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf, jointly set upon or assailed. So Rev., joined in the charge.\nThe more cheerfully (\u03b5\u1f50\u03b8\u03c5\u03bc\u03cc\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd)\nThe best texts read the positive of the adverb, \u03b5\u1f50\u03b8\u03cd\u03bc\u03c9\u03c2, cheerfully.\nThe way\nSee on Act 9:2.\nA sect\nSee on Act 24:5. The word is commonly used in an indifferent sense, as signifying merely a school or party. So Act 15:5; Act 28:22. Here, however, in a bad sense - schismatic sect, as in Co1 11:19.\nWorship (\u03bb\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b5\u03cd\u03c9)\nBetter, as Rev., serve. See on Luk 1:74.\nGod of my fathers (\u03c4\u1ff7 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03ce\u1ff3 \u0398\u03b5\u1ff7)\nA familiar classical phrase, and therefore well known to Felix. Thus Demosthenes calls Apollo the \u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u1ff7\u03bf\u03c2 (ancestral god) of Athens. Socrates is asked (Plato, \"Euthydemus,\" 302), \"Have you an ancestral Zeus (\u0396\u03b5\u1f7a\u03c2 \u03c0\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u1ff7\u03bf\u03c2)?\" So, frequently, in the classics. Similarly, the Roman phrase, Di patrii, \"the gods of the forefathers.\" On the Roman reverence for the ancestral religion, see note on Act 16:21. The Roman's own sentiment would prepare him to respect Paul's.\nAllow (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03b4\u03ad\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9)\nOr, as Rev., look for. The word admits of either sense.\nExercise myself (\u1f00\u03c3\u03ba\u1ff6)\nOriginally, to work raw material, to form: hence, to practise, exercise, discipline; and so, in ecclesiastical language, to mortify the body. Of the kindred adjective \u1f00\u03c3\u03ba\u03b7\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 our word ascetic is a transcript.\nVoid of offence (\u1f00\u03c0\u03c4\u03cc\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd)\nLit., without stumbling; unshaken. The word is used thus in a passive sense here, as in Phi 1:10. In Co1 10:32, it occurs in the active sense of giving offence to others, or causing them to stumble.\nWhereupon (\u1f10\u03bd \u03bf\u1f37\u03c2)\nMore correctly, in which (occupation); while so engaged. The best texts, however, read \u1f10\u03bd \u03b1\u1f37\u03c2, in which, the pronoun agreeing in gender with offerings. The sense, according to this, is, as Rev., margin, in presenting which (offerings).\nDeferred (\u1f00\u03bd\u03b5\u03b2\u03ac\u03bb\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf)\nAdjourned the case. Only here in New Testament.\nI will know the uttermost (\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b3\u03bd\u03ce\u03c3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9)\nBetter, as Rev., I will determine. See on Act 23:15.\nLiberty (\u1f04\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd)\nFrom \u1f00\u03bd\u03af\u03b7\u03bc\u03b9, to send up; thence, to loosen, release. It is almost exactly expressed by our vulgarism, to let up. The noun here is more correctly rendered by Rev., indulgence. In all the other New Testament passages it is rendered rest, ease, or relief. See Co2 2:13; Co2 7:5; Co2 8:13; Th2 1:7.\nTo minister (\u1f51\u03c0\u03b7\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6\u03bd)\nSee on officer, Mat 5:25.\nRighteousness, temperance, the judgment to come\nThree topics which bore directly upon the character of Felix. Tacitus says of him that he \"exercised the authority of a king with the spirit of a slave;\" and that, by reason of the powerful influence at his command, \"he supposed he might perpetrate with impunity every kind of villany.\" He had persuaded his wife Drusilla to forsake her husband and marry him. He had employed assassins to murder the high-priest Jonathan, and might well tremble at the preaching of the judgment to come. Temperance (\u1f10\u03b3\u03ba\u03c1\u03ac\u03c4\u03b5\u03b9\u03b1) is, properly, self-control; holding the passions in hand.\nTrembled (\u1f14\u03bc\u03c6\u03bf\u03b2\u03bf\u03c2 \u03b3\u03b5\u03bd\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2)\nLit., having become in fear. Rev., better, was terrified.\nFor this time (\u03c4\u1f78 \u03bd\u1fe6\u03bd \u1f14\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd)\nOr, for the present. Very literally, as to what has itself now.\nHe hoped also (\u1f05\u03bc\u03b1 \u03b4\u1f72 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u1f10\u03bb\u03c0\u03af\u03b6\u03c9\u03bd)\nA comma should be placed after thee (Act 24:25), and the participle \u1f10\u03bb\u03c0\u03af\u03b6\u03c9\u03bd, hoping, joined with answered: \"Felix answered, 'Go thy way, etc.,' hoping withal that money would be given him.\"\nCommuned (\u1f61\u03bc\u03af\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9)\nSee on talked, Act 20:11.\nPorcius Festus came into Felix's room (\u1f14\u03bb\u03b1\u03b2\u03b5 \u03b4\u03b9\u03ac\u03b4\u03bf\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd \u1f41 \u03a6\u1fc6\u03bb\u03b9\u03be \u03a0\u03cc\u03c1\u03ba\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03a6\u1f24\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd)\nRev., better, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. The Greek idiom is, Felix received Porcius Featus as a successor.\nTo shew the Jews a pleasure (\u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03b1\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03b8\u03ad\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2 \u1f38\u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03b1\u03af\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2)\nLit., to lay up thanks for himself with the Jews. Rev., correctly, to gain favor with the Jews.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Acts: Acts Chapter 24","type":"page"}