Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 22]
(\Aire apo t•s g•s ton toiouton\). They renew the cry with the
very words in 21:36, but with "from the earth" for vehemence.
{For it is not fit} (\ou gar kath•ken\). Imperfect active of
\kath•k•\, old verb to come down to, to become, to fit. In the
N.T. only here and Ro 1:28. The imperfect is a neat Greek idiom
for impatience about an obligation: It was not fitting, he ought
to have been put to death long ago. The obligation is conceived
as not lived up to like our "ought" (past of owe). See Robertson,
_Grammar_, p. 886.
22:23 {As they cried out} (\kraugazont•n aut•n\). Genitive
absolute with present active participle of \kraugaz•\, a rare
word in the old Greek from \kraug•\ (a cry). See on ¯Mt 12:19.
Two other genitive absolutes here, \rhiptount•n\ (throwing off,
present active participle, frequent active variation of \rhipt•\)
and \ballont•n\ (present active participle of \ball•\, flinging).
These present participles give a lively picture of the
uncontrolled excitement of the mob in their spasm of wild rage.
22:24 {That he be examined by scourging} (\mastixin anetazesthai
auton\). The present passive infinitive of \anetaz•\ in indirect
command after \eipas\ (bidding). This verb does not occur in the
old Greek (which used \exetaz•\ as in Mt 2:8), first in the
LXX, in the N.T. only here and verse 29, but Milligan and
Moulton's _Vocabulary_ quotes an Oxyrhynchus papyrus of A.D. 127
which has a prefect using the word directing government clerks to
"examine" (\anetazein\) documents and glue them together into
volumes (\tomoi\). The word was evidently in use for such
purposes. It was a kind of "third degree" applied to Paul by the
use of scourges (\mastixin\), instrumental plural of \mastix\,
old word for whip, as in Heb 11:36. But this way of beginning
an inquiry by torture (inquisition) was contrary to Roman law
(Page): _Non esse a tormentis incipiendum, Divus Augustus
statuit_. {That he might know} (\hina epign•i\). Final clause
with \hina\ and second aorist active subjunctive of \epign•sk•\
(full knowledge). Lysias was as much in the dark as ever, for
Paul's speech had been in Aramaic and this second explosion was a
mystery to him like the first. {They so shouted} (\houtos
epeph•noun\). Imperfect active progressive imperfect had been so
shouting.
22:25 {When they had tied him up} (\hos proeteinan auton\). First
aorist active indicative of \protein•\, old verb to stretch
forward, only here in the N.T. Literally, "When they stretched
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