Acts 5:9

τὶ ὅτι, Acts 5:4. συνεφωνήθη : only here in the N.T. in the passive, for its use in the active, Acts 15:15. Blass maintains that this passive usage συμφωνεῖταί τισι is Latin rather than Greek (convenit inter aliquos), and that it may have arisen from the intercourse between Greeks and Romans, see in loco, and Grammatik des N. G., pp. 112, 235; in LXX only in the active. Cf. also Viteau, Le Grec du N. T., p. 155 (1893). “The aggravation was that they committed the deed as with one soul, just as upon a settled compact between them,” Chrys., Hom., xii.; cf. the plural ἀπέδοσθε. πειράσαι : the rendering “to tempt,” does not seem to express the idea so well as “to try,” to make trial whether the Holy Ghost would discover their deception, whether He knew all things: cf. Acts 15:10, and in LXX, Exodus 17:2; Exodus 17:7; Psalms 77 (78):41, 56, etc. (in Revelation 2:2 the same verb as here = “try,” A. and R.V.). ἰδοὺ, see on Acts 1:10. οἱ πόδες, cf. Luke 1:79; Romans 3:15; Romans 10:15. A Hebraistic expression the whole description is full of dramatic intensity the returning steps of the νεώτεροι are heard ἐπὶ τῇ θύρᾳ. But Alford thinks that they were probably bare-footed, and that the words mean that the time was just at hand for their return, cf. James 5:9. ἐξοίσουσίν σε, see on Acts 5:6.