Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 4]
a horse, to prance or stamp the ground, to put on lofty airs.
Only here in the N.T. in this quotation from Ps 2:1. {Imagine}
(\emelet•san\). First aorist active indicative of \meleta•\. Old
verb from \melet•\ (care), to practise, to caution, as orators
and rhetoricians. Only here in the N.T. in this quotation.
4:26 {Set themselves in array} (\parest•san\). Literally, stood
by. {Against his Anointed} (\kata tou Christou autou\). Against
his Messiah, his Christ.
4:27 {Both Herod and Pontios Pilate} (\H•r•id•s te kai Pontius
Peilatos\). Luke alone (Lu 23:12) tells of the reconciliation
between Herod and Pilate at the trial of Jesus. So Peter and the
rest interpret this prophecy as directly fulfilled in their
conduct towards Jesus Christ. {Whom thou didst anoint} (\hon
echrisas\). As in verse 26 (cf. Lu 4:18; Isa 61:1).
Inaugurated as King Messiah.
4:28 {Foreordained} (\pro•risen\). First aorist active indicative
of \prooriz•\, "They rise above sight and seem to see the Hand
which 'shapes men's ends, rough hew them how they will'"
(Furneaux).
4:29 {And now} (\kai ta nun\). "And as to (accusative of general
reference) the now things (the present situation)." Only in the
Acts in the N.T. (5:38; 17:30; 20:32; 27:22). {Grant} (\dos\).
Second aorist active imperative of \did•mi\, urgency of the
aorist, Do it now. {To speak thy word with all boldness} (\meta
parr•sias pas•s lalein ton logon sou\). Literally, "with all
boldness to go on speaking (present active infinitive) thy word."
Peter and John had defied the Sanhedrin in verse 20, but all
the same and all the more they pray for courage in deed to live
up to their brave words. A wholesome lesson.
4:30 {While thou stretchest forth thy hand} (\en t•i t•n cheira
ekteinein se\). Luke's favourite idiom, "In the stretching out
(articular present active infinitive) the hand as to thee"
(accusative of general reference), the second allusion to God's
"hand" in this prayer (verse 28). {To heal} (\eis iasin\). For
healing. See verse 22. {And that signs and wonders may be done}
(\kai s•meia kai terata ginesthai\). Either to be taken as in the
same construction as \ekteinein\ with \en t•i\ as Revised Version
has it here or to be treated as subordinate purpose to \en t•i
ekteinein\ (as Knowling, Page, Wendt, Hackett). The latter most
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