PART I THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN PALESTINE; OR ITS PROGRESS FROM JERUSALEM TO ANTIOCH.—THE ACTS OF PETER Chapter S 1–12 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTORY—PREPARATIONS FOR THE FOUNDING OF THE CHURCH § 1. The Two Treatises; or, the connection between the Acts of the Apostles and the Gospel of Luke (Acts 1:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 1:1. THE FORMER TREATISE HAVE I MADE.—Better, _the first_ (πρῶτος for πρότερος, as in John 1:15, unless πρῶτος was intended to point to a τρίτος: Ramsay) _treatise_ (λόγος in ancient written speech meaning the separate book rolls in a connected work—Holtzmann) _I made_. That... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 1:3. BEING SEEN OF THEM, or showing Himself to them, not in a subjective vision, but objectively and really, during (διά with gen. as in Acts 5:19; Acts 16:9) FORTY DAYS—_i.e._, not continuously, but at intervals. Compare the forty days of Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 24:18),... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 1:6. WHEN THEY WERE COME TOGETHER.—(The Sinaitic codex omits _together_.) This was not the meeting referred to in Acts 1:4, but the last interview recorded in Luke 24:36, which began in Jerusalem and ended near Bethany. WILT, rather _dost_ THOU? εἰ introducing a direct quest... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 1:12. A SABBATH DAY’S JOURNEY—according to Josephus six (_Ant._, XX. viii. 6) or five (_Wars_, V. ii. 3) furlongs—marked the distance of the Mount of Olives from Jerusalem, not of Bethany, which was fifteen furlongs from the city (John 11:18). Luke (Luke 24:50) does not say t... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 1:15. THOSE DAYS lay between the Ascension and Pentecost. For DISCIPLES, μαθητῶν, the R.V. reads _brethren_, ἀδελφῶν, as in Matthew 25:40; Acts 9:30; Acts 11:29; 1 Corinthians 5:11. NAMES = persons, as in Revelation 3:4; Revelation 11:13. Unclassical. TOGETHER, ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ, h... [ Continue Reading ]