ἀπὸ μιᾶς. With one consent (γνώμης), lit. from one determination; or with one voice (φωνῆς), comp. ἀπὸ τῆς ἴσης, ἀπ' εὐθείας, ἐξ ὀρθῆς, &c. They are rather colloquial than classical phrases.

παραιτεῖσθαι. Deprecari. 2Ma 2:31; Acts 25:11. The Greek word is the exact equivalent of our ‘to beg off.’ The same fact is indicated in John 1:11; John 5:40, and in the “ye would not” of Luke 13:34; and the reason is the antipathy of the natural or carnal man (ὁ ψυχικὸς) to God, John 15:24.

ἠγόρασα. These aorists simply regard the facts asserted as single acts.

ἔχε με παρῃτημένον. Consider me as having been excused. (Comp. εἶχον ‘they considered’ in Matthew 14:5.) The very form of the expression involves the consciousness that his excuse of necessity (ἀνάγκην ἔχω) was merely an excuse. There is, too, an emphasis on the me—“excusatum me habeas”—it may be the duty of others to go; I am an exception.

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