Acts 27:1

ὡς δὲ ἐκρίθη τοῦ�, and when it was determined that we should sail. No other instance of this infinitive with τοῦ prefixed is found after κρίνω except in the Text. recept. of 1 Corinthians 2:2, where it is rejected by Lachmann, Tischendorf and Tregelles. But in the LXX. the construction is common enough after verbs of kindred signification, e.g. βουλεύομαι. Cf. 1Ma 3:31, ἐβουλεύσατο τοῦ πορευθῆναι εἰς τὴν Περσίδα, ‘he determined to go into Persia’ (A.V.). See also 1Ma 5:2, ἐβουλεύσαντο τοῦ ἆραι τὸ γένος Ἰακώβ. So 1Ma 9:69; 1Ma 12:35.

παρεδίδουν, they delivered, i.e. the soldiers who had the care of Paul did so by order of Festus.

ἑκατοντάρχῃ, to a centurion. This was generally the rank of the officers appointed to such a charge. Cf. Acts 21:32; Acts 24:23, &c.

σπείρης Σεβαστῆς, of the Augustan band. The word σπεῖρα might be rendered ‘cohort’ as in the marg. of R.V., and it is said that in the time of Octavianus Augustus there were some legions to which the title Σεβαστός = Augustus was given, as being specially the Imperial troops, and that perhaps among the soldiers in Cæsarea there was a detachment of these legions. But as Cæsarea was itself called ‘Sebaste’ it seems more likely that the soldiers were Samaritan troops belonging to Cæsarea itself. And Josephus (Wars, II. 12. 5) makes mention of troops which had their name, Sebasteni, from this city Cæsarea Sebaste.