{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/act028.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/act028.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/act028.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nThey knew\nThe best texts read we knew: ascertained or recognized: with a reference to ver. 39.\nBarbarous people\nFrom the Roman point of view, regarding all as barbarians who spoke neither Greek nor Latin. Not necessarily uncivilized. It is equivalent to foreigners. Compare Rom 1:14; Co1 14:11. The inhabitants of Malta were of Carthaginian descent. \"Even in the present day the natives of Malta have a peculiar language, termed the Maltese, which has been proved to be essentially an Arabic dialect, with an admixture of Italian\" (Gloag).\nNo little (\u03bf\u1f50 \u03c4\u03c5\u03c7\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd)\nSee on special, Act 19:11. Rev., much better, \"no common kindness.\"\nKindness (\u03c6\u03b9\u03bb\u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03af\u03b1\u03bd)\nSee on the kindred adverb courteously, Act 27:3.\nPresent rain (\u1f51\u03b5\u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u03c4\u1f78\u03bd \u1f10\u03c6\u03b5\u03c3\u03c4\u1ff6\u03c4\u03b1)\nLit., which was upon us, or had set in. No mention of rain occurs up to this point in the narrative of the shipwreck. The tempest may thus far have been unattended with rain, but it is hardly probable.\nOf sticks (\u03c6\u03c1\u03c5\u03b3\u03ac\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd)\nOnly here in New Testament. From \u03c6\u03c1\u03cd\u03b3\u03c9, to roast or parch. Hence, dry sticks.\nOut of (\u1f10\u03ba)\nThe best texts read \u1f00\u03c0\u03cc, by reason of.\nJustice (\u0394\u03af\u03ba\u03b7)\nPersonified.\nSuffereth not (\u03bf\u1f50\u03ba \u03b5\u1f34\u03b1\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd)\nThe aorist tense: did not suffer. His death is regarded as fixed by the divine decree.\nThe beast (\u03c4\u1f78 \u03b8\u03b7\u03c1\u03af\u03bf\u03bd)\nLuke uses the word in the same way as the medical writers, who employed it to denote venomous serpents, and particularly the viper; so much so that an antidote, made chiefly from the flesh of vipers, was termed \u03b8\u03b7\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03ae. A curious bit of etymological history attaches to this latter word. From it came the Latin theriaca, of which our treacle (molasses) is a corruption. Treacle, therefore, is originally a preparation of viper's flesh, and was used later of any antidote. Thus Coverdale's translation of Jer 8:22 has, \"There is no more treacle in Gilead.\" Gurnall (\"Christian in Complete Armor\") says: \"The saints' experiences help them to a sovereign treacle made of the scorpion's own flesh (which they through Christ have slain), and that hath a virtue above all other to expel the venom of Satan's temptations from the heart.\" So Jeremy Taylor' \"We kill the viper and make treacle of him.\"\nSwollen (\u03c0\u03af\u03bc\u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9)\nOnly here in New Testament. The usual medical word for inflammation.\nLooked (\u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03b4\u03bf\u03ba\u03ce\u03bd\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd)\nOccurring eleven times in Luke, and only five times in the rest of the New Testament. Frequent in medical writers, to denote expectation of the fatal result of illness.\nNo harm (\u03bc\u03b7\u03b4\u1f72\u03bd \u1f04\u03c4\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd)\nLit., nothing out of place. The word \u1f04\u03c4\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2 occurs three times in Luke, and only once elsewhere in the New Testament (Th2 3:2). Used by physicians to denote something unusual in the symptoms of disease, and also something fatal or deadly as here. Rev., nothing amiss. Compare Luk 23:41; and Act 25:5, where the best texts insert the word.\nSaid (\u1f14\u03bb\u03b5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd)\nThe imperfect, denoting current talk.\nA god\n\"Observe,\" says Bengel, \"the fickleness of human reasoning. He is either an assassin, say they, or a god. So, at one time bulls, at another stones\" (Act 14:13, Act 14:19).\nThe chief man (\u03c4\u1ff7 \u03c0\u03c1\u03ce\u03c4\u1ff3)\nOfficial title, without reference to his rank and possessions. Though not occurring as the official designation of the governor of Malta in any ancient author, it has been found in two inscriptions discovered in the island.\nSick (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b5\u03c7\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd)\nLit., taken or holden. See on taken, Luk 4:38.\nFever (\u03c0\u03c5\u03c1\u03b5\u03c4\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2)\nLit., fevers. This peculiarly medical use of the plural is confined to Luke in the New Testament. It denotes successive and varying attacks of fever.\nBloody flux (\u03b4\u03c5\u03c3\u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u1fb3)\nOnly here in New Testament. Our word dysentery is nearly a transcript of it. Hippocrates often speaks of the two complaints in combination.\nHealed (\u1f30\u03ac\u03c3\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf)\nSee on Luk 6:19.\nHonors (\u03c4\u03b9\u03bc\u03b1\u1fd6\u03c2)\nThe word was applied to payments for professional services, and that fact may have influenced Luke in selecting it; but it is evidently not used in that sense here.\nSign\nAnswering to the ship's name in modern times. It was the image of a god, a man, a beast, or of some other object, sculptured or painted on the prow. The figure of the guardian deity was affixed to the stern.\nCastor and Pollux\nKnown as the twin brothers and the Dioscuri, or sons of Jove. They were regarded as tutelary deities of sailors.\nThe centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard\nThe best texts omit.\nI am bound (\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03af\u03ba\u03b5\u03b9\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9)\nLit., compassed.\nWe desire (\u1f00\u03be\u03b9\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd)\nRather, we think it. Compare Act 15:38.\nSect\nSee on heresies, Pe2 2:1.\nAgreed not\nSee on agreed together, Act 5:9.\nWaxed gross\nSee on Mat 13:15.\nTheir ears are dull of hearing\nLit., with their ears they heard heavily.\nClosed\nHired house (\u03bc\u03b9\u03c3\u03b8\u03ce\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9)\nProbably different from the \u03be\u03b5\u03bd\u03af\u03b1, or lodging-place, where he resided for the first few days, perhaps as the guest of friends, though under custody, and where he received the Jews (Act 28:23).","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Acts: Acts Chapter 28","type":"page"}