Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 14]
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14:1 {They entered together} (\kata to auto eiselthein\). Like
\epi to auto\ in 3:1. The infinitive \eiselthein\ is the
subject of \egeneto\. {So spake that} (\lal•sai hout•s h•ste\).
Infinitive again parallel to \eiselthein\. With the result that,
actual result here stated with \h•ste\ and the aorist infinitive
\pisteusai\ (Robertson, _Grammar_, pp. 999f.) rather than \h•ste\
and the indicative like Joh 3:16. It was a tremendous first
meeting.
14:2 {That were disobedient} (\hoi apeith•santes\). First aorist
active articular participle, not the present \apeithountes\ as
the Textus Receptus has it. But the meaning is probably the Jews
that disbelieved, rather than that disobeyed. Strictly \apeithe•\
does mean to disobey and \apiste•\ to disbelieve, but that
distinction is not observed in Joh 3:36 nor in Ac 19:9;
28:24. The word \apeithe•\ means to be \apeith•s\, to be
unwilling to be persuaded or to withhold belief and then also to
withhold obedience. The two meanings run into one another. To
disbelieve the word of God is to disobey God. {Made them evil
affected} (\ekak•san\). First aorist active indicative of
\kako•\, old verb from \kakos\, to do evil to, to ill-treat, then
in later Greek as here to embitter, to exasperate as in Ps
105:32 and in Josephus. In this sense only here in the N.T.
Evidently Paul preached the same message as in Antioch for it won
both Jews and Gentiles, and displeased the rabbis. Codex Bezae
adds here that "the chiefs of the synagogue and the rulers"
brought persecution upon Paul and Barnabas just as was argued
about Antioch. Outside the synagogue the Jews would poison the
minds of the Gentiles against Paul and Barnabas. "The story of
Thecla suggests a means, and perhaps the apostles were brought
before the magistrates on some charge of interference with family
life. The magistrates however must have seen at once that there
was no legal case against them; and by a sentence of acquittal or
in some other way the Lord gave peace" (Rackham). As we have it,
the story of Paul and Thecla undoubtedly has apocryphal features,
though Thecla may very well be an historical character here at
Iconium where the story is located. Certainly the picture of Paul
herein drawn cannot be considered authentic though a true
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Word Pictures in the New Testament
(Acts: Chapter 14)