Acts 12:11

γενόμενος ἐν ἑαυτῷ, cf. Luke 15:17, and compare instances of similar phrases in Greek and Latin classical writers in Wetstein and Blass. Κύριος, see critical notes, if without the article Nösgen (so Weiss) takes it of God, Jehovah. ἐξαπέστειλε : a compound only found in Luke and Paul; four times in Luke's Gospel, six or seven times in Acts, and Galatians 4:4; Galatians 4:6; very frequent in LXX, and used also in active voice by Polybius. ἐξείλετο ἐκ χ.: close parallels in LXX, cf. Exodus 3:8; 2 Samuel 22:1; Isaiah 43:13, Bar 4:18; Bar 4:21, etc. ἐκ χειρὸς : Hebraism, cf. Luke 1:74. The expression is also classical, Blass, Gram., p. 127, for close parallel. προσδοκία : only in Luke here and in Luke 21:26, cf. Genesis 49:10, but more allied to its sense here Psalms 119:116, Wis 17:13, Sir 40:2, and in 2 and 3 Macc. (see H. and R.), and Psalms of Solomon, Tit. 11; frequently in classics. Hobart claims as a medical word, especially as the verb προσδοκᾷν is also so frequent in Luke; so too Zahn, Didache 1 N. T., p. 436; but see Plummer on Luke 21:36. Both verb and noun are also frequent in classical use.