Acts 14:17

καίτοιγε, see critical notes. If we read καίτοι the word is only found in the N.T. here and in Hebrews 4:3; used here as an adversative conjunction; see Simcox, Language of the N. T., p. 168, and further Blass, Gramm., pp. 242, 264; Viteau, Le Grec du N. T., p. 118 (1893); see Malachi 2:6; Malachi 2:6. ἀμάρτυρον : not in LXX or Apocrypha; only here in N.T., but in classical Greek, and also in Josephus, see instances in Wetstein. This witness is not as at Athens, Acts 17:27; Romans 2:15, to man's consciousness and conscience, but rather to God's presence in nature, cf. for the expression LXX, Ps. 88:37, ὁ μάρτυς ἐν οὐρανῷ πιστός, and Pseudo-Heracleitus, letter iv., where the moon is spoken of as God's οὐράνιος μαρτυρία; see below on Acts 14:17. οὐκ ἀφῆκεν : non reliquit sed sivit (Blass). ἀγαθοποιῶν, see critical notes. Neither ἀγαθουργέω nor ἀγαθοεργέω, 1 Timothy 6:18, occur in classical Greek or LXX. T.R. uses the more familiar word; found three times in Luke's Gospel and elsewhere in N.T., and also a few times in LXX (in different senses), but not in classical Greek; see Plummer on Luke 6:33, and Hatch, Essays in B. G., p. 7.