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Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Acts 9:28

ἦν … εἰσπ.: for characteristic construction see Acts 1:10, etc. εἰς καὶ ἐκπ., cf. Acts 1:21. Hebraistic formula to express the daily confidential intercourse with the Apostles; cf. 1 Samuel 18:13; 2 Chronicles 23:7 (1Ma 13:49; 1Ma 15:14; 1Ma 15:25, for somewhat similar expressions, but see H. and R.). ἐν : if we read εἰς, see critical note. Weiss connects closely with ἐκπ. and takes it to signify that Saul was not only associated with the Apostles privately, but openly in the town, so Wendt and Holtzmann, privatim and publice. Page connects ἦν εἰς together, and thinks εἰς probably due to the intervention of the verbs expressing motion. Zöckler compares Acts 26:20, and takes εἰς as referring to Jerusalem and its neighbourhood (but see critical notes).

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