Acts 26:9

ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν : the words may be taken as simply resuming the narrative of the Apostle's life which he had commenced in Acts 26:4-5, the three succeeding verses forming a parenthesis, or as an answer to the question of Acts 26:8, the real antithesis to μὲν οὖν, Acts 26:9, and the narrative, Acts 26:9-11, being found in Acts 26:12 and what follows. On μὲν οὖν see Rendall, Acts, Appendix, p. 163, and also Page on Acts 2:41, Acts, pp. 94, 95; see also critical note above. ἔδοξα ἐμαυτῷ : mihi ipsi videbar; so in classical Greek. If with Weiss, Wendt, Bethge we lay stress on ἐμαυ., the Apostle explains the fact that this obligation was his own wilful self-delusion. In classical Greek instead of the impersonal construction we have frequently the personal construction with the infinitive as here, cf. 2 Corinthians 10:9 only in Luke and Paul, indication of literary style, Viteau, Le Grec du N.T., p. 152 (1893). τὸ ὄνομα Ἰ. τοῦ Ν., see on Acts 4:10; Acts 4:12. ἐναντία πρᾶξαι, cf. Acts 28:17, and also 1 Thessalonians 2:15; Titus 2:8.