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21. ἠλπίζομεν. ‘Our hope was.’ This would imply that now their hope was dimmed, if not quenched. This perhaps led to the reading ‘we trust’ (ἐλπίζομεν) in א and some inferior MSS., which Alford calls a “correction for decorum.”
λυτροῦσθαι. The form of the expected redemption is explained in Act 1:6.
ἀλλά γε. These words properly mean “yet at least,” and in classical writers are separated by some other word. They do not occur again in the N. T.
σὺν πᾶσιν τούτοις. ‘Along with (i.e. beside) all these things.’ The use of σὺν is more general than usual. See Winer, p. 488.
τρίτην ταύτην ἡμέραν ἄγει. The words might be literally rendered ‘He is leading this third day.’ The unexpressed nominative is not ὁ χρόνος or ὁ ἥλιος, but Ἰησοῦς. The expression seems to imply, ‘if there had been any hope it would have been confirmed before now.’