On the route see Edersheim, Jewish Social Life, p. 27; and on this and the following verse in [240] text as specially supporting his theory, see Blass, Philology of the Gospels, pp. 116 ff. and 127. ἦν προσδοκῶν : characteristic Lucan construction, see above Acts 1:10; cf. Luke 1:21. προσδ., favourite with St. Luke; six times in Gospel, five in Acts, elsewhere in Gospels only twice in Matthew. συγκ., i.e., on the day on which he expected the advent of Peter and the returning messengers as to a feast; they were probably also fearers of the true God, and of a like mind with Cornelius. ἀναγκαίους, necessarios cf. Jos., Ant., vii., 14, 4; xi., 6, 4; xiii., 7, 2, etc., and instances in Wetstein.

[240] R(omana), in Blass, a first rough copy of St. Luke.

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