Acts 15:2

στάσεως : the word, with the exception of Mark 15:7, and Hebrews 9:8 (in a totally different sense), is peculiar to St. Luke: twice in his Gospel, and five times in Acts; used in classical Greek of sedition, discord, faction, and so of the factious opposition of parties in the state; frequent in LXX, but only once in any similar sense, Proverbs 17:14. συζητήσεως, but ζητ.: “questioning,” R.V., cf. John 3:25; three times in St. Paul, 1 Timothy 6:4; 2 Timothy 2:23; Titus 3:9, in a depreciatory sense in each case; not in LXX or Apocrypha. οὐκ ὀλίγης, see on Acts 12:18 and Acts 14:28; eight times in Acts. ἔταξαν, sc., οἱ ἀδελφοὶ, Acts 15:1; no. discrepancy with Galatians 2:2, see additional note. τινας ἄλλους : Titus amongst them, Galatians 2:1; Galatians 2:3; expression found only here in N.T.; men like the prophets and teachers in Acts 13:1 may have been included. On the attempt to identify Titus with Silas see Zöckler, in loco, and further Ramsay, St. Paul, p. 390, for the entire omission of Titus from Acts and its probable reason; Lightfoot, Biblical Essays, p. 281; Farrar, St. Paul, ii., 532; Alford, iii., 106, Proleg. A Gentile convert, and so keenly concerned in the settlement of the question, and in himself a proof of the “repentance unto life” granted to the Gentiles. πρεσβ.: first mentioned in Acts 11:30, cf. note, in all official communications henceforth prominent, Acts 15:2; Acts 15:4; Acts 15:6; Acts 15:22-23; Acts 16:4; Acts 21:18, Lightfoot, Phil., p. 193. ζητήματος : five times in Acts, nowhere else in N.T.; once in LXX, Ezekiel 36:37 A (see Hatch and Redpath), and in classical Greek; “question,” A. and R.V.