Acts 13:15

εἴ τις ἔστιν ἐν υμῖν λόγος with אABC. Vulg. ‘si quis est in vobis sermo.’

15. μετὰ δὲ τὴν�, and after the reading of the Law and the Prophets. Which was a prominent portion of the synagogue-service. For the better understanding of what was here done, and also at the time when our Lord ‘stood up for to read’ in the synagogue at Nazareth (Luke 4:15) it seems worth while to give in detail an account of the manner in which the Scriptures are read in the Jewish synagogues. For this see the Excursus at the end of this chapter.

ἀπέστειλαν οἱ�, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them. These were the persons who had the control of the arrangements for calling up readers and preachers.

εἴ τις ἔστιν ἐν ὑμῖν λόγος παρακλήσεως, if ye have any word of exhortation. The sense of λόγος παρακλήσεως is well seen from Hebrews 13:22, where the writer calls his whole epistle by that name. λόγοι παρακλήσεως are spoken of 1Ma 10:24, where the A.V. renders ‘words of encouragement,’ while a similar expression, ἡ ἐν τοῖς� (2Ma 15:11), is rendered ‘comfortable and good words.’