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11. καὶ ὁ Πέτρος ἐν ἑαυτῷ γενόμενος, and when Peter was come to himself. This and the other subjective features of the narrative shew that the account must have been derived from St Peter himself. No one else could describe the astonishment and the after realization that all was truly enacted and no vision.
In Luk 15:17 the phrase is εἰς ἑαυτὸν γενόμενος where it is a moral and spiritual, not a physical, awakening and resipiscence that is spoken of.
καὶ πάσης τῆς προσδοκίας τοῦ λαοῦ τῶν Ἰουδαίων, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. Their gratification had been great at the death of James, and now they hoped to see another of the Apostles condemned and executed.