αὐτοῦ for τοῦ κυρίου with אABE. Vulg. ‘ipsius.’

16. καὶ νῦν τί μέλλεις; and now why tarriest thou? According to the narrative in Acts 9:15, the message of Ananias had already proclaimed the gift of the Holy Ghost to Saul, and the favour of God had been shewn in the recovery of his sight. So the question of Ananias becomes parallel to that of St Peter in the house of Cornelius: ‘Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?’

ἀναστὰς βάπτισαι, arise and be baptized. Though the gift of the Spirit was announced yet God directs that the means of grace, the sacrament of baptism, which the Apostle must offer to others, should also be received by himself.

καὶ�, and wash away thy sins. The close connexion of the sacramental sign with renewing grace is spoken of in like terms by the Apostle in his Epistle to Titus (Acts 3:5), ‘according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.’

ἐπικαλεσάμενος τό ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, calling on His name, i.e. τοῦ δικαίου, the name of the righteous One, Jesus, mentioned in Acts 22:14.

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