Acts 14:27

συν. τὴν ἐκκλ., cf. Acts 15:30, as was natural, for they had been sent out by them. ἀνήγγειλαν : Acts 15:4 (Acts 20:20; Acts 20:27), lit [277], to carry back tidings (so in classical Greek, as from a less to a greater), cf. 2 Corinthians 7:7; used here as in Æschylus, Xen., Polyb., of messengers reporting what they had seen or heard (Grimm). Blass takes it as simply = ἀπαγγέλλω as in LXX and later Greek. ὅσα : “how many (or ‘how great') things”. μετʼ αὐτῶν, i.e., on their behalf; cf. Acts 15:4; Luke 1:58; Luke 1:72; Luke 10:37, cf. 1 Samuel 12:24; Psalms 126:2-3, Hebrew עָשָׂה עִם, Psalms 119:65, and cannot = per ipsos, which would require διά the phrase may therefore be described as a Hebraism; it occurs only in Luke; Friedrich, p. 33. ὅτι ἤνοιξε … θύραν : a striking coincidence with St. Paul's use of the same metaphor elsewhere, cf. 1 Corinthians 16:9; 2 Corinthians 2:12; Colossians 4:3, and cf. Revelation 3:8. St. Paul's Galatian Epistle clearly shows that his missionary work in Galatia had met with much success, and that the Churches now founded held a large place in his affections, cf. Galatians 4:14-15. Enough had been accomplished, even if all his desires were still unfulfilled, to make him eager for a continuation of the work to which he had been called as an Apostle of the Gentiles, see McGiffert, Apostolic Age, pp. 191, 192; Hort, Ecclesia, p. 66: “perhaps the greatest epoch in the history of the Ecclesia at large”: Spitta refers the whole verse to his Redactor, p. 171.

[277] literal, literally.