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Act 4:9. Εἰ, if) i.e. since. He means the ἀνάκρισις, examination, now going forward.-ἀνακρινόμεθα, we be examined) By judicial process.-εὐεργεσίᾳ, a good deed) whereas ordinarily it is persons who have done an evil deed, that must submit to examination. The article is not added; but there follows, in Act 4:12, ἡ σωτηρία, the salvation, where the article forms an Epitasis [emphatic addition to the previous enunciation, viz. to the εὐεργεσίᾳ without the article]. Christ was σωτὴρ καὶ εὐεργέτης, a most beneficent Saviour. See Chrysost. de Sacerd. p. 208.-ἐν τίνι, by what) The rulers had asked, by what power (virtue), and by what name. This Peter takes up, changing the adjective [substituting τίνι for ποίᾳ, ποίῳ], in order to make his reply the more definite: and immediately also replies concerning the authority and name, Act 4:10.-οὗτος, this man) who is here present, Act 4:10; Act 4:14.-σέσωσται, is made whole) To this word is to be referred ἡ σωτηρία, σωθῆναι, the salvation, be saved, Act 4:12, from the notation (signification) of the name Jesus, Act 4:10. [The health of the body is as it were a type and mirror of the health of the soul.-V. g.]