New Testament Studies. III.; The Acts of the Apostles (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES I.--Terms of more General Significance. ("Efoos about forty-four times in the Acts). Most frequently as ra eOvrj meaning the Gentile nations, i.e. those who were not Jews (LXX); so also in xxi. II;1 more rarely in a quite neutral sense, as in ii. 5: cnro iravros eOvovs Twv Vtto Tov ovpavov, x. 35, xvii. 26: irav eOvos avOpwirwv, viii. 9: To eOvos rtjs afiaplas, xiii. 19, &c. In the former signification it has been already so affected by the Judaeo-Hellenic use of the word, that the Gentile inhabitants of a city are called To eOvr j (xiii. 48, xiv. 2); xv. 23: aSeX(pois To e iOvwv, xxi. 25: irepi Twv ireirKTrevKOrwv eOvwv = " the Gentile Christians.' It is placed in contrast with its antithesis (the Jewish nation) in iv. 27 (avv eQveaiv Km Xaoh 'laparjX), ix. 15 (evwiriov eOvwv re Koi (SaaCXewv vlwv re 'laparjX), xiv. 5 (ppfih Twv iOvwv re Kcu 'lovSalwv), xxi. 21 (tou? Kara. To. eOvrj irdvras'lovSalovs), xxvi. 17 (eaipovfievos ae eK Tov Xaov i.e. the Jewish nation Kcu Sk Twv eOvwv), xxvi. 23 (KarayyeWeiv Tu T Xaw Kot Tois eOveaiv). Nevertheless, the word is not yet absolutely secularised: in x. 22 we read that the Gentile centurion Cornelius was held in good repute 1 References to the we-sections are in bolder type. Iitto Oxov Tov eOvovs Twv 'lovSalwv, St. Paul speaks (xxiv. 17; xxvi. 4; xxviii. 19) of the Jewish nation as eOvos fiov, and the Jewish orator Tertullus (xxiv. 3) as well as St. Paul (xxiv. 10) call the Jewish nation To eOvos Tovto. But in all these six instances it is to be noticed that we are dealing with discourses, or rather with the reports of discourses, in which the official terminology, such as was customary before a Gentile tribunal, would naturally be used. These passages only show...