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9. οὗτος ἤκουσεν κ.τ.λ., this man heard Paul speaking. The aorist leaves it quite indefinite whether the man heard on this one occasion only, or had listened to frequent teachings, and so become filled with faith in what was taught.
ὃς ἀτενίσας αὐτῷ, who fastening his eyes upon him. This verb is common with St Luke, and seems to indicate that the person using it was an eye-witness of what he relates. It occurs several times of St Paul, as in Act 13:9, where he fixes his gaze on Elymas, and Act 23:1, where he attentively beholds the council. From the context of the latter passage, in which we learn that the Apostle did not recognize the high-priest, some have thought that this straining earnest gaze, so frequently ascribed to St Paul, was due to some weakness of sight remaining ever since his blindness at the time of his conversion.
καὶ ἰδὼν ὅτι ἔχει πίστιν τοῦ σωθῆναι, and seeing that he had faith to be healed. The man’s heart shone out in his face, and the Spirit within the Apostle recognized that here was a fit object to be made, by his cure, a sign unto the men of Lystra. Cf. Mar 10:23.
The genitival infinitive τοῦ σωθῆναι may here be regarded as a noun regularly governed by πίστιν.