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15. ἡ δὲ διϊσχυρίζετο, but she confidently affirmed. In the time of the A.V. constantly had the meaning of confidently, which it has now lost. διϊσχυρίζομαι is in N.T. only here and in St Luk 22:59. It occurs in Acta Petri et Pauli Apocryph. §§ 34 and 39, οἱ δὲ τῷ Σίμωνι κολληθέντες τὸν Πέτρον διϊσχυρίζοντο μάγον. The word is often found in classical Greek.
ὁ ἄγγελός ἐστιν αὐτοῦ, it is his angel. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews expresses (Act 1:14) in part the opinion of the Jews concerning angels when he asks, ‘Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to do service to them who shall be heirs of salvation?’ The Jewish belief was that each man had a guardian angel assigned to him. Cf. Midrash Rabbah on Ecc 4:4, where it is said that ‘six hundred thousand of the angels of the presence came down on Sinai at the giving of the Law, and each one bore a crown to crown Israel, one for each Israelite.’ Cf. also our Lord’s language (Mat 18:10).