John Bengel Commentary - Acts 12:13 - 12:13

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John Bengel Commentary - Acts 12:13 - 12:13


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Act 12:13. Τοῦ πυλῶνος, the vestibule or porch) [atrium, entrance room] before the house itself. Πύλη, is the gate: πυλὼν implies something larger and more spacious, and expresses either the large gate or even the entrance next to it, the unclosed Subdiale, ὑπαίθριον, open gallery. Peter entered through the gate into this πυλὼν, atrium, and then into the house. What Mark, Mar 14:68, calls the προαύλιον, is the πυλὼν of Mat 26:71, the porch.-προῆλθε) came forward.[67] The antithesis is εἰσδραμοῦσα, having run in, Act 12:14.-ὑπακοῦσαι, to answer the knock, to hearken) ענה, LXX. ὑπακούειν.

[67] The reading προσῆλθε had been preferred by the larger Ed.; but the reading προῆλθε was elevated from the sign ε to the sign γ in the margin of Ed. 2, and is presented to us by the Germ. Vers. along with the Gnomon.-E. B.

Lachm. and Tisch., with the oldest authorities, read προσῆλθεν.-E. and T.