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Act_17:10-12. Διὰ τ . νυκτ .] As in Act_16:9.
Beroea, a city in the third district of Macedonia, Liv. xvi. 30, to the south-west of Thessalonica. See Forbiger, Geogr. III. p. 1061. Now Verria.
ἀπῄεσαν ] ἄπειμι , so frequent in Greek writers, only here in the N.T. Comp. 4Ma_7:8; 2Ma_12:1. They separated, after their arrival, from their companions, and went away to the synagogue.
εὐγενέστεροι ] of a nobler character; Plat. Def. p. 413 B, Polit. p. 310 A; Soph. Aj. 475; 4Ma_6:5; 4Ma_9:27. Theophyl. after Chrys.: ἐπιεικέστεροι . An arbitrary limitation; tolerance is comprehended in the general nobleness of disposition.
τῶν ἐν Θεσσαλ .] than the Jews in Thessalonica.
τὸ καθʼ ἡμέραν ] daily. Comp. Luk_11:3; Luk_19:47; Bernhardy, p. 329.
ἀνακρίνοντες τὰς γρ .] searching the Scriptures (Joh_5:39), namely, to prove: εἰ ἔχοι ταῦτα (which Paul and Silas stated) οὕτως (as they taught). “Character verae religionis, quod se dijudicari patitur,” Bengel.
εὐσχημ .] see on Act_13:50.
The Hellenic women and men are to be considered partly as proselytes of the gate who had heard the preaching of Christ in the synagogue, and partly as actual Gentiles who were gained in private conversations. Comp. on Act_11:20.
Ἐλληνίδων ] construed with γυναικῶν , but also to be referred to ἀνδρῶν . See Matthaei, § 441.
That the church of Beroea soon withered again, is quite as arbitrarily assumed by Baumgarten, as that it was the only one founded by Paul to which no letter of the apostle has come down to us. How many churches may Paul have founded of which we know nothing whatever!