Acts 16:34

ἀναγαγών τε αὐτοὺς : τε closely connects this second proof of his thankfulness with the first ἀναγ.: “he brought them up into,” R.V.; Blass thinks that the ἀνά means that he brought them up from underground, but it may simply mean that the house was built over the prison; see also Knabenbauer in loco. παρέθηκε τράπ.: the phrase is a classical one, so in Homer, also in Polyb.; so in Homer a separate table is assigned to each guest, Odys., xvii., 333; xxii., 74. But the word is also used as implying the meal on the table see. and., cf. Tob 2:2, παρετέθη μου ἡ τράπεζα,. Psalms 77:20. Paul makes no question about sitting at meat with the uncircumcised (Weiss). ἠγαλλιάσατο : it is suggestive that St. Luke uses the cognate noun of this same verb to describe the intense exulting gladness of the early Church at Jerusalem in their social life, Acts 2:46 here was indeed an Agape, a Feast of Love, cf. 1 Peter 1:6; 1Pe 1:8; 1 Peter 4:13 (Matthew 5:12; Revelation 19:7); in St. Luke the word occurs twice in his Gospel, Luke 1:47; Luke 10:21, and in Acts 2:26, quotation (see above); not found in classical Greek, but formed probably from ἀγάλλομαι, Hellenistic, often in LXX. At the same time the word πεπιστευκώς, perfect participle, shows that this fulness of joy was caused by his full profession of belief; it was the joy of the Holy Ghost which followed on his baptism: “rejoiced greatly with all his house, having believed on the Lord,” gaudebat quod crediderat, Blass (reading imperfect ἠγαλλιᾶτο, see critical note). See also Viteau, Le Grec du N. T., p. 194 (1893). πανοικὶ (- εὶ, W.H [299], App., p. 154), cf. παραπληθεί, Luke 23:18. In LXX the word is found, Exodus 1:1, but A has - κίᾳ 3Ma 3:27, where A has also - κίᾳ. On St. Luke's fondness for πᾶς and its related forms see Friedrich, p. 6. The form preferred in Attic is πανοικησίᾳ. The word in text is found in Jos., Philo, and in Plato, Eryx., p. 392 C., cf. Blass, in loco, and Proleg., p. 19.

[299] Westcott and Hort's The New Testament in Greek: Critical Text and Notes.