Acts 23:15

νῦν οὖν : only in Acts in N.T., where it occurs four times, frequent in LXX. ἐμφανίσατε : “signify” in A. and R.V.; this rendering apparently conveys a wrong idea, for it implies that the Council had the authority, whereas this lay with the Roman officer, cf. Acts 24:1; Acts 25:2; Acts 25:15. In LXX, Esther 2:22, Malachi 3:7; Malachi 3:7; 2Ma 11:29. σὺν τῷ συν.: with the whole Council, including both those who had previously inclined to favour Paul as well as his opponents; the former could not object to the pretext that further inquiries were to be made into Paul's position, especially when the Sadducees urged such an inquiry. ὅπως, Burton, p. 87. ὡς μέλλοντας : this use of ὡς with the participle expressing the pretext alleged by another, often in Luke, cf. Luke 16:1; Luke 23:14; Acts 23:20; Acts 27:30, Viteau, Le Grec du N.T., p. 189 (1893), but we may also compare 1 Corinthians 4:18 (Burton). διαγ.: “as though ye would judge of his case more exactly,” R.V., accurate cognoscere; the word need not be used here in the forensic sense as in Acts 24:22 (Acts 25:21), Grimm, Blass; the “inquiry” is expressed by the usual word in Acts 23:20. The verb is used in 2Ma 9:15. πρὸ τοῦ ἐγγίσαι : so that the crime could not be imputed to the priests. ἕτοιμοί ἐσμεν τοῦ : for genitive of the infinitive after a noun or an adjective, in Luke and Paul (1 Peter 4:17), (Viteau, u. s., p. 169, Burton, p. 158. In LXX, cf. Mich. Acts 6:8; Ezekiel 21:10-11 (Ezekiel 21:15-16), 1Ma 3:58; 1Ma 5:39; 1Ma 13:37. ἀνελεῖν αὐτὸν, cf. Hackett's note, which gives a formal justification from Philo for the assassination of apostates.