οὕτως : may mean, with this scanty result, or simply, after these events, in this state of the popular mind, with an expectation of being heard again (Alford); “ancipiti auditorum obsequio; nullo edito miraculo”: Bengel. ἐκ μέσου αὐτῶν : at the opening Paul stood ἐν μέσῳ Acts 17:22, τοῦ Ἀ. π.: “the two expressions correspond to and explain each other, … he that ‘went forth from the midst of them' must have been standing ‘in the midst of them' ”; cf. Ramsay, Expositor, September, 1895, and for the bearing of the words see above on Acts 17:22. For similar phrase with μέσου as frequent in St. Luke's writings, Friedrich, p. 22. Ramsay thinks that some danger is indicated, but nothing is said of this; the words apparently refer to no trial, although, perhaps, to some kind of preliminary inquiry, see above, Acts 17:22.

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