καὶ ταράσσοντες added before τοὺς ὄχλους with אABD. Vulg. ‘et turbantes.’

13. ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ, the word of God. This is the language of the author. The Thessalonian Jews would not have called St Paul’s preaching by such a name.

σαλεύοντες καὶ ταράσσοντες τοὺς ὄχλους, stirring up and troubling the multitudes. The figures in these verbs are of a storm at sea where all is stirred up from the depth. The second verb ταράσσω has already occurred in Acts 17:8, and it is probable from this that the trouble in Berœa was produced in the same way as before by the statement that the Apostles were traitors to the Roman power. For the figurative language cf. LXX. Psalms 17:8, καὶ ἐσαλεύθη καὶ ἔντρομος ἐγενήθη ἡ γῆ, καὶ τὰ θεμέλια τῶν ὀρέων ἐταράχθησαν καὶ ἐσαλεύθησαν ὅτι ὠργίσθη αὐτοῖς ὁ θεός. Also Psalms 47:5; Psalms 106:27.

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