Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 4]
4:21 {When they had further threatened them}
(\prosapeil•samenoi\). The "further" is in "pros" (in addition),
{Finding nothing how they might punish them} (\m•den heuriskontes
to p•s kolas•ntai autous\). Note the article "to" before \p•s\
(how), "the how." Aorist middle deliberative subjunctive
\kolas•ntai\ in indirect question after \p•s\ from \kolaz•\, to
lop (\kolos\, lopped), to curb, to prune, to correct, to punish.
Old verb, in the N.T. only here and 2Pe 2:9. {Glorified God}
(\edoxazon ton theon\). Imperfect active, kept on glorifying God
while the Sanhedrin were threatening Peter and John. It was to
laugh at the helplessness of the Sanhedrin.
4:22 {Was wrought} (\gegonei\). Second past perfect active
without augment from \ginomai\.
4:23 {To their own company} (\pros tous idious\). Their own
people as in Joh 1:11; 13:1; Ac 24:23; 1Ti 5:8; Tit 3:14, not
merely the apostles (all the disciples). In spite of Peter's
courageous defiance he and John told the brotherhood all that had
been said by the Sanhedrin. They had real apprehension of the
outcome.
4:24 {With one accord} (\homothumadon\). A concert of voices as
already seen by the word in 1:14; 2:46 and later in 5:12;
7:57; 15:25. {O Lord} (\Despota\). Our word despot. Old word for
relation of master to slaves or household servants (1Ti 6:1; 2Ti
2:21; Tit 2:9; 1Pe 2:18). Simeon thus addressed God (Lu 2:29).
So in 2Pe 2:1; Jude 1:4; Re 6:10. See "slaves" in verse 29.
4:25 {By the mouth of our father David} (\tou patros h•m•n dia
pneumatos hagiou stomatos Daueid\). From Ps 2:1f. here ascribed
to David. Baumgarten suggests that the whole company sang the
second Psalm and then Peter applied it to this emergency. The
Greek MSS. do not have \dia\ (by) here before \stomatos\, but
only \dia\ before \pneumatos hagiou\ (the Holy Spirit). Hort
calls this a "primitive error" perhaps due to an early scribe who
omitted this second \dia\ so close to the first \dia\ (Robertson,
_Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the N.T._, p. 238). A
small list of such primitive errors is there given as suggested
by Dr. Hort. {Why} (\hina ti\). This Greek idiom calls for
\gen•tai\ (second aorist middle subjunctive), {That what may
happen}. {The Gentiles} (\ethn•\). So always in LXX, while \laoi\
(peoples) can include Jews. {Did rage} (\ephruaxan\). First
aorist active indicative of \phruass•\, late word, to neigh like
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