Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 9:35

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 9:35 - 9:35

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35. καὶ εἶδαν αὐτὸν πάντες, and they all saw him. No doubt his case of eight-years-long paralysis was well known to the dwellers in the village and neighbourhood, and to see such a one about in their midst again would be a cause for general remark and enquiry into the manner of his restoration. ‘When the Scripture saith all it doth not comprehend every one, how many soever it noteth, but it putteth all for the more part, or for many, or for the common sort of men’ (Calvin on this verse).

τὸν Σάρωνα, Saron. The O.T. Sharon. It is doubtful whether by this name is intended some village in the neighbourhood of Lydda or the whole district known as the ‘plain of Sharon,’ and extending along the coast from Joppa to Cæsarea. No place of this name has been noticed in the neighbourhood, and as in the original the word has the article, ‘the Sharon,’ it is better to refer it to the district.

οἵτινες ἐπέστρεψαν ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον, and they turned unto the Lord. ὅστις in this and similar sentences is almost like the Latin quippe qui, when it can be rendered ‘and in fact.’ So here the force of this strengthened relative is somewhat of this kind, ‘they saw him, and as a fact in consequence of their seeing, they turned.’