Acts 12:13

τὴν θ. τοῦ πυλῶνος : the door of the gateway, cf. Acts 10:17. πυλών as in Matthew 26:71, of the passage leading from the inner court to the street, so that strictly the door in the gateway opening upon this passage would be meant, cf. εἰσδ., Acts 12:14 (and προσῆλθε, Acts 12:13). κρούσαντος : to knock at a door on the outside, cf. Luke 13:25, but elsewhere in Luke without τὴν θύραν, Luke 11:9-10; Luke 12:36 (Matthew 7:7; Revelation 3:20); so too in classical Greek, Xen., Symp., i., 11, see Rutherford, New Phrynichus, p. 266; in LXX, Judges 19:22; Song of Solomon 5:2, Jdt 14:14. παιδίσκη, i.e., the portress, cf. John 18:17, see Rutherford, u. s., p. 312; Kennedy, Sources of N. T. Greek, p. 40. ὑπακοῦσαι, R.V., “to answer,” cf. above, Xen., Symp., i., 11 (so in Plato, Phædo, 59 e, etc.). Ῥόδη : a rose, cf. Dorcas and other names of the same class. The name occurs in myths and plays, see Blass's note.