Acts 15:39

παροξυσμός, Hebrews 10:24, in different sense, nowhere else in N.T. The verb is found twice, Acts 17:16, 1 Corinthians 13:5; in the former passage of Paul's righteous provocation in Athens, and in the latter of irritation of mind as here; the noun twice in LXX of God's righteous anger, Deuteronomy 29:28; Jeremiah 39 (32):37 (cf. also the verb, Deuteronomy 9:7-8, etc.), so too in Dem. Both noun and verb are common in medical language (Hobart); παροξυσμός, φησίν, ἐγένετο οὐχ ἔχθρα οὐδὲ φιλονεικία; in the result good, for Mark was stirred up to greater diligence by Paul, and the kindness of Barnabas made him cling to him all the more devotedly, cf. Oecumenius, in loco. ἀποχωρισθῆναι : “they parted asunder,” R.V., cf. διαχωρίζεσθαι ἀπό, Genesis 13:11; Genesis 13:14, cf. Luke 9:33. παραλαβόντα : not the compound verb, because Barnabas alone takes Mark. ἐκπλεῦσαι : with εἰς also in Acts 18:18, with ἀπό in Acts 20:6; On πλέω and the number of its compounds in St. Luke, cf. Acts 27:4, etc. εἰς Κ.: where he could be sure of influence, since by family he belonged to the Jews settled there, Acts 4:36. Barnabas is not mentioned again in Acts, and it is to be noted that St. Paul's friendship was not permanently impaired either with him or with Mark (see Chrysostom, in loco, and cf. 1 Corinthians 9:6). In Galatians 2:13 St. Paul in speaking of Barnabas marks by implication his high estimate of his character and the expectations he had formed of him; καὶ Β. “even Barnabas” (Lightfoot, Gal., in loco, and Hackett). According to tradition Barnabas remained in Cyprus until his death, and the appearance of Mark at a later stage may point to this; but although possibly Mark's rejoining Paul may have been occasioned by the death of Barnabas, the sources for the life of Barnabas outside the N.T. are quite untrustworthy, “Barnabas,” B.D. 2; Hackett, Acts, p. 192. Whatever his fortunes may have been, St. Luke did not estimate his work in the same category as that of Paul as a main factor in the development of the Church, although we must never forget that “twice over did Barnabas save Saul for the work of Christianity”. Μάρκον : In his two imprisonments St. Paul mentions Mark in terms of high approval, Colossians 4:10-11; Philemon 1:24; 2 Timothy 4:11. In the first imprisonment St. Paul significantly recommends him to the Colossians as being the cousin of Barnabas, one of his own fellow-labourers unto the kingdom of God, one amongst the few who had been a παρηγορία, a comfort unto him. In such words as these St. Paul breaks the silence of the years during which we hear nothing of the relations between him and Mark, although the same notice in Colossians seems to indicate an earlier reconciliation than the date of the letter, since the Churches of the Lycus valley had already been instructed to receive Mark if he passed that way, Expositor, August, 1897, “St. Mark in the N.T.” (Dr. Swete), p. 85.