αὐτοῦ instead of τοῦ ἰαθέντος χωλοῦ with אABCDE. Vulg. ‘cum teneret autem Petrum.’

11. Σολομῶντος. As the name of Solomon was so intimately connected with the Jewish temple, it is natural enough that one of its porches (or cloisters) should be called after him. There is no account of any such porch in Solomon’s own temple, but Josephus tells us (Ant. xx. 9. 7) that there was an eastern porch in Herod’s temple called by this name. The mention of this feature in the building is a sign that the writer, from whom St Luke drew, was one acquainted with the localities about which he speaks, and that the account was written before the fall of Jerusalem, or he would not have said ‘is called,’ or if he had done so would have been convicted of inconsistency of language by those to whom his work was first presented.

ἔκθαμβοι is in the plural, because the notion of λαὸς is a plural one.

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