Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 8]
(determined or fulfilled. Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 1022), a
common enough phenomenon in the _Koin•_. The eunuch felt the need
of some one to guide (\hod•ge•\ from \hod•gos\, guide, and that
from \hodos\, way, and \hegeomai\, to lead).
8:32 {The place} (\he perioch•\). See the verb \periechei\ so
used in 1Pe 2:6. The word is used either of the section as in
Codex A before the beginning of Mark or the contents of a
passage. He was here reading one particular passage (Isa
53:7f.). The quotation is from the LXX which has some variations
from the Hebrew.
8:33 {Was taken away} (\•rth•\). First aorist passive indicative
of \air•\, to take away. It is not clear what the meaning is here
either in the Hebrew or the LXX. Knowling suggests that the idea
is that justice was withheld, done away with, in his death, as it
certainly was in the death of Christ.
8:34 {Of whom} (\peri tinos\). Concerning whom, a pertinent
inquiry surely and one that troubles many critics today.
8:35 {Beginning from this scripture} (\arxamenos apo t•s graph•s
taut•s\). As a text. Philip needed no better opening than this
Messianic passage in Isaiah. {Preached unto him Jesus}
(\eu•ggelisato aut•i ton I•soun\). Philip had no doubt about the
Messianic meaning and he knew that Jesus was the Messiah. There
are scholars who do not find Jesus in the Old Testament at all,
but Jesus himself did (Lu 24:27) as Philip does here.
Scientific study of the Old Testament (historical research)
misses its mark if it fails to find Christ the Center of all
history. The knowledge of the individual prophet is not always
clear, but after events throw a backward light that illumines it
all (1Pe 1:11f.; 2Pe 1:19-21).
8:36 {What doth hinder me to be baptized?} (\Ti k•luei me
baptisth•nai?\). Evidently Philip had said something about
baptism following faith and conversion. Verse 37 is not a
genuine part of Acts, a western addition. Later baptismal
liturgies had it.
8:39 {Out of the water} (\ek tou hudatos\). Not from the edge of
the water, but up out of the water as in Mr 1:10. {Caught away}
(\h•rpasen\). Suddenly and miraculously, for \harpaz•\, like the
Latin _rapio_, means to carry off. Cf. 2Co 12:2; 1Th 4:17.
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