Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Acts 10:34

ἀνοίξας κ. τ. λ.: a solemn formula, cf. Acts 8:35; Acts 18:14; Matthew 5:2; Matthew 13:35; Hort, Judaistic Christ., p. 57. ἐπʼ ἀληθ.: used in Luke's Gospel three times, Luke 4:25; Luke 20:21; Luke 22:59, and in Acts twice, Acts 4:27; Acts 10:34, elsewhere only twice in N.T., Mark 12:14; Mark 12:32; the customary ἐν ἀληθείᾳ is altogether wanting in Luke. καταλαμβ.: three times in Acts, not found in Luke's Gospel; here = mente comprehendo, cf. Ephesians 3:15, similar sense; so in Plato, Polybius, and Philo. προσωπολήπτης, see Mayor on James 2:1, πρόσωπον - λαμβάνειν. The actual word is not found in LXX (or in classical Greek), but for the thought of God as no respecter of persons see Deuteronomy 10:17; Leviticus 19:15; Malachi 2:9, etc., etc., and Luke 20:21; Galatians 2:16 (so too προσωπολημψία in N.T. three times). The expression πρόσ. λαμβ. is Hebraistic, not necessarily in a bad sense, and in the O.T. more often in a good one, but in the N.T. always in a bad sense, since πρόσωπον acquired the meaning of what was simply external (through its secondary signification a mask) in contrast to a man's real intrinsic character, but the noun and adj [242] always imply favouritism: see Lightfoot on Galatians 2:6 and Plummer on Luke 20:21. Even the enemies acknowledged our Lord's God-likeness at least in this respect, Matthew 22:16; Mark 12:14; Luke 20:21.

[242] adjective.

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