ἐπελ. αὐτοῦ : with a hostile intention, see Acts 17:19. δεθ. ἁλύσεσι δυσὶ : as a malefactor and seditious person, Acts 21:38, to be guarded securely as the cause of the tumult, cf. Acts 12:6. τίς ἂν εἴη, καὶ τί ἐστι πεποιηκώς : the difference in the moods in dependent sentences after τις may be noted: the centurion had no clear idea as to who Paul was, but he feels sure that he had committed some crime, Winer-Moulton, xli., 4 c, Weiss, Wendt, in loco, on the other hand Page. On Luke's thus mingling the optative obliqua with direct narrative alone among the N.T. writers, Viteau, Le Grec du N.T., p. 225 (1893).

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