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Act_21:10-11. Ἐπιμενόντων ] without a subject (see the critical remarks); Matthiae, § 563; Buttmann, neut. Gr. p. 271 [E. T. 316].
Ἄγαβος ] There is no reason against the assumed identity of this person with the one mentioned in Act_11:28. Luke’s mode of designating him, which does not take account of the former mention of him, admits of sufficient explanation from the special document giving account of this journey, which, composed by himself before his book, did not involve a reference to earlier matters, and was left by him just as it was; nor did it necessarily require any addition on this point for the purpose of setting the reader right.
ἄρας ] he took it up, from the ground, or wherever Paul had laid it.
δήσας … πόδας ] as also the old prophets often accompanied their prophecies with symbolic actions; Isaiah 20; Jeremiah 13; Ezekiel 4, al. See Grotius; Ewald, Proph. I. p. 38. On the symbol here, comp. Joh_21:18.
ἑαυτοῦ ] his own; for it was not his girdle, but Paul’s. This self-binding is to be conceived as consisting of two separate acts.
τὸ πν . τ . ἅγ .] whose utterance I, namely, as His organ express.