Acts 9:22

ἐνεδυναμοῦτο : only used here by St. Luke, and elsewhere only by St. Paul (five or six times), and always of religious and spiritual strength; used also three times in the LXX; twice with reference to the power of the Spirit, Judges 6:34, 1 Chronicles 12:18; in Psalms 51:7, perhaps the simple verb δυναμόω. συνέχυνε : “confounded,” so A. and R.V., or rather, “continued to confound,” imperfect active, cf. Acts 2:6, “were confounded.” passive, see also Acts 19:32; Acts 21:31 (critical notes above): from συνχύννω (συνχύνω), nowhere used except in Acts, as above (see Moulton and Geden). συνχύννω : not found in classical Greek nor in LXX, a later form of συγχέω, συνχέω T. W. H. (cf. ἐκχύννομαι from ἐκχέω, three times in Acts, also two or three times in Luke's Gospel; in Matthew twice, in Mark once, also Romans 5:5; Jude 1:11; not found in LXX, but see Theod., 2 Samuel 14:14); in Acts, Acts 21:27. συνέχεον from συνχέω (but see in loco), Moulton and Geden. According to the best MS., Tisch., W.H [229], read the double v, but elsewhere we have only one v, Winer-Schmiedel, p. 132, Blass, Gram., p. 41. συμβιβάζων : only used by St. Luke and St. Paul, cf. Acts 16:10; Acts 19:33, see especially for this last passage, Grimm-Thayer, sub v., cf. 1 Corinthians 2:16. In the LXX the word is used in the sense of teaching, instructing, Exodus 4:12; Exodus 4:15; Exodus 18:16; Isaiah 40:13, etc., this usage is purely Biblical (in Attic Greek rather προσβ. in this sense): lit [230], (1) to bring together; (2) then like συμβάλλω, to put together, to compare, to examine closely; (3) so to deduce, to prove; thus here the word may well imply that Saul compared Messianic passages of the O.T. with the events of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, and hence deduced the proof that He was the Christ, cf. παρατιθέμενος in Acts 17:3. So Theophylact explains διδάσκων καὶ ἑρμηνεύων out of the Scriptures which the Jews themselves knew.

[229] Westcott and Hort's The New Testament in Greek: Critical Text and Notes.

[230] literal, literally.