A Question of the Law of the Empire
Acts 22:22-30
22 And
they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and
said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should
live. 23 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and
threw dust into the air, 24 The chief captain commanded him to be
brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that
he might know wherefore they cried so against him. 25 And as they
bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful
for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? 26 When
the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed
what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. 27 Then the chief captain
came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. 28 And
the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul
said, But I was free born. 29 Then straightway they departed from
him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid,
after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. 30 On the morrow, because he would have known the
certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands,
and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought
Paul down, and set him before them.
Outline:
I. A Cry for Blood (22:22)
II. A Command to
Scourge (22:23-24)
III. A Complaint of Legality (22:25-28)
IV. A Command to the Council (22:29-30)
I. A Cry for Blood (22:22)
And they gave him audience unto this
word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from
the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
“No single fact so aroused the enmity of the Jews as to
be told that God sent the apostles to bring salvation to the Gentiles.27”
“27Acts 6 &7; 11:1-3; 13:46-50; 21:19-22;
22:21-22; 26:19-21; 28:28.”[1]
22:23 - And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and
threw dust into the air,
21:36 - For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
25:24 - And
Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see
this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at
Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
Jn. 19:15 - But they cried out, Away with him, away
with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I
crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
Lk. 23:18 - And they cried out all at once, saying, Away
with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
1 Th. 2:16 - Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved,
to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
II. A Command
to Scourge (22:23-24)
23
And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes,[2]
and threw dust into the air, 24 The
chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he
should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so
against him.[3]
7:58 - And
cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid
down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
2 Sam. 16:13 - And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the
hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
Job 2:12 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not,
they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their
heads toward heaven.
Rev. 18:19 - And they cast dust on their
heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas,
alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by
reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
21:37 - And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief
captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
Jn. 19:1 - Then
Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
III. A Complaint of Legality (22:25-28)
25
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that
stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and
uncondemned? 26 When the centurion heard that, he went and told the
chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. 27
Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a
Roman? He said, Yea.[4] 28
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum[5]
obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But[6] I was
free born.
16:37-38 - But
Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and
have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out
privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates:
and they
feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
21:33 - Then
the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound
with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
22:29 - Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined
him: and the chief captain also
was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
23:27 - This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of
them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
IV. A Command to the Council (22:29-30)
29
Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him:
and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and
because he had bound him. 30 On the morrow, because he would have known the
certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands,
and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought
Paul down, and set him before them.
Mt. 5:22 - But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother
without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to
his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say,
Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Complete outline:
I. A Cry for Blood (22:22)
II. A Command to
Scourge (22:23-24)
III. A Complaint of Legality (22:25-28)
IV. A Command to the Council (22:29-30)
[Sermon preached 8
FEB 2015 by Pastor John T. “Jack” Jeffery at Wayside Gospel Chapel, Greentown,
PA.]
Appendix 1 – Resources
cited in Notes:
H. E. Dana and Julius R. Mantey, A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament (Toronto: The Macmillan
Co., 1927, 1955), pp. 250-252.
Adolf Deissmann, Light
from the Ancient East: The New Testament Illustrated by Recently Discovered
Texts of the Graeco-Roman World, 4th rev. ed. of Licht vom Osten (Tübingen, 1909, 1923), trans. Lionel R. M.
Strachan (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, n.d.; 1978 ed.).
Adolf Deissmann, Paul:
A Study in Social and Religious History, 2nd ed., trans. William E. Wilson
(New York: Harper Torchbooks, n.d.).
Richard R. DeRidder, Discipling
the Nations (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1975).
Jim Hamilton, God’s Glory in Salvation Through Judgment: A
Biblical Theology (Wheaton: Crossway, 2010).
Brice C. Jones, “The
Meaning of the Phrase ‘And the Witnesses Laid Down Their Cloaks’ in Acts 7:58,”
The Expository Times 123:3, pp.
113-118; on Brice C. Jones at http://www.bricecjones.com/uploads/1/8/3/4/18344243/exttimarticlejones.pdf
[accessed 17 FEB 2015].
Julius R. Mantey, “New Translations For Conjunctions In
The Greek New Testament,” The Expositor,
ed. W. Robertson Nicoll, Eighth Series, Vol. XXIII (London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1922), pg. 381; on Internet
Archive at https://archive.org/details/s8expositor23londuoft
[accessed 7 FEB 2015].
NET Bible notes
on Lumina at https://lumina.bible.org/bible/Acts+22 [accessed 6 FEB 2015].
John B. Polhill, Acts, Vol. 26 in The New American
Commentary, gen. ed. David S. Dockery (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman,
Publishers, 1992).
Thomas R. Schreiner, The
King In His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments
(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013).
Udo Schnelle, Apostle
Paul: His Life and Theology, trans. M. Eugene Boring (Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic, 2003; trans. from Paulus: Leben
und Denken, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., n.d.).
F. Blass, and A. Debrunner, trans. and rev. Robert W.
Funk, A Greek Grammar of the New
Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 9th ed. (Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 1961), pp. 181, §358(2); 199-201, §392(4); and 216-217, §420(2).
Colin Brown, gen. ed., The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, 3 vols.,
English ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1971, 1978 ; trans. from
Germ. original, Theologisches
Begriffslexikon Zum Neuen Testament by Theologischer Verlag Rolf Brockhaus,
Wuppertal).
Ernest De Witt Burton, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek, 3rd ed.
(Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1978 reprint of 1900 edition, University of
Chicago Press, Chicago), pg. 15, §32,
and pg. 66, §145.
H. E. Dana and Julius R. Mantey, A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament (Toronto: The Macmillan
Co., 1927, 1955), pp. 161, 250-252.
George Adolf Deissmann, Bible Studies, trans. Alexander Grieve (Winona Lake, IN: Alpha
Publications, n.d.; 1979 reprint of the 1923 T. & T. Clark printing).
Adolf Deissmann, Light
from the Ancient East: The New Testament Illustrated by Recently Discovered
Texts of the Graeco-Roman World, 4th rev. ed. of Licht vom Osten (Tübingen, 1909, 1923), trans. Lionel R. M.
Strachan (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, n.d.; 1978 ed.), pg. 339, and note 2.
Adolf Deissmann, Paul:
A Study in Social and Religious History, 2nd ed., trans. William E. Wilson
(New York: Harper Torchbooks, n.d.), pp. 45, note, and 77.
Gerhard Kittel, and Gerhard Friedrich, eds., Theological Dictionary of the New Testament,
10 vols., trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: Wm.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,
1967).
Johannes P. Louw,
and Eugene A. Nida, eds., Greek-English Lexicon
of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains, 2 vols., 2nd ed. (New
York: United Bible Societies, 1988, 1966, elec. ed. 1996).
C. F. D. Moule, An
Idiom-Book of New Testament Greek, 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1959, 1953), pg. 82.
James Hope Moulton, Prolegomena,
3rd ed., Vol. I in James Hope Moulton, A
Grammar of New Testament Greek (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, n.d.), pg.
133.
James Hope Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament
Illustrated from the Papyrii and other Non-literary Sources, one-volume ed.
(Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., n.d., 1976 reprint; from 1930
orig. by Hodder & Stoughton, London).
A. T. Robertson, A
Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research
(Nashville: Broadman Press, 1934), pp. 258, 308, 393, 533, 615, 718, 726, 766, 799,
815, 820, 861, 863, 886, 916, 920, 1014, 1029, 1084, 1033-1034, 1046, 1181.
Nigel Turner, Syntax,
Vol. III in James Hope Moulton, A Grammar
of New Testament Greek (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1963), pp. 90, and
182.
Nigel Turner, Style,
Vol. IV in James Hope Moulton, A Grammar
of New Testament Greek (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1976), pg. 54.
G. B. Winer A
Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek: Regarded as a Sure Basis for
New Testament Exegesis, 3rd ed., trans. W. F. Moulton, 9th ed. (Edinburgh:
T&T Clark, 1882), pp. 208, 261, 352, 457, 496.
Appendix 3 — Resources
on Acts:
G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson, eds., Commentary on the New Testament Use of
the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007), pp. 513-606.
Paul Barnett, The Birth
of Christianity: The First Twenty Years, After Jesus, Vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing
Co., 2005).
Darrell L. Bock, Acts,
Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New
Testament, eds. Robert W. Yarbrough and Robert H. Stein (Grand Rapids:
Baker Academic, 2007).
F. F. Bruce, The Acts of the Apostles: The Greek Text
with Introduction and Commentary, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans
Publishing Co., 1951, 1952).
Dennis E. Johnson, The Message of Acts in the History of
Redemption (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1997).
I. Howard Marshall, Acts:
An Introduction And Commentary, Vol. 5 in Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, gen. ed. Leon Morris (Downers
Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1980; 2008 reprint).
David G. Peterson, The
Acts of the Apostles, in The Pillar
New Testament Commentaries, gen. ed. D. A. Carson (Grand Rapids: William B.
Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009).
John B. Polhill, Acts,
Vol. 26 in The New American Commentary,
gen. ed. David S. Dockery (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, Publishers,
1992).
Eckhard J. Schnabel, Acts,
Vol. 5 in the Zondervan Exegetical
Commentary on the New Testament, gen. ed. Clinton E. Arnold (Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 2012).
W. C. van Unnik, “The ‘Book of Acts’ the Confirmation of
the Gospel,” in Novum Testamentum 4:1
(OCT 1960), pp. 26-59; reprinted in The
Composition of Luke’s Gospel: Selected Studies from Novum Testamentum,
compiled by David E. Orton, Vol. 1 of Brill’s
Readers in Biblical Studies (Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 184-218.
William H. Willimon, Acts,
in Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for
Teaching and Preaching, series ed. James Luther Mays, New Testament ed.
Paul J. Achtemeier (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010).
Appendix 4 — Resources on Paul:
Kenneth E. Bailey, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural
Studies in 1 Corinthians (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2011).
F. F. Bruce, Paul:
Apostle of the Heart Set Free (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing
Co., 1977).
D. A. Carson, The
Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism (Grand Rapids: Zondervan,
1996), pp. 496-501.
W. J. Conybeare and J. S. Howson, The Life, Times and Travels of St. Paul, 2 vols. in 1, unabridged
American ed. (New York: E. B. Treat U Co., 1869); on Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=Bn1CAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[accessed 12 FEB 2013].
Adolf Deissmann, Paul:
A Study in Social and Religious History, 2nd ed., trans. William E. Wilson
(New York: Harper Torchbooks, n.d.).
F. W. Farrar, The Life
and Work of St. Paul (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1889); on Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=RB2KeCSM6KsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[accessed 12 FEB 2013].
Bruce N. Fisk, “Paul: Life and
Letters”, in The Face of New Testament
Studies: A Survey of Recent Research, ed. Scot McKnight and Grant R.
Osborne (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004), pp. 283-325.
Richard B.Gaffin, Jr.,
"Acts and Paul", 46 lectures (MP3 format), WTS Resources Media Center
on Westminster Theological Seminary
at http://wts.edu/resources/media.html?paramType=audio&filterTopic=5&filterSpeaker=10&filterYear=2005 [accessed 20 MAR 2013].
Frank J. Goodwin, A
Harmony of the Life of the St. Paul According to the Acts of the Apostles and
the Pauline Epistles (New York: American Tract Society, 1895); on Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=YgpEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[accessed 12 FEB 2013].
Richard N. Longenecker, The
Ministry And Message Of Paul (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1971).
Richard N. Longenecker, Paul,
Apostle Of Liberty (New York: Harper & Row, 1964).
Richard N. Longenecker, ed., The Road From Damascus : The Impact Of Paul's Conversion On His Life,
Thought, And Ministry (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997).
Richard N. Longenecker, Studies
In Paul, Exegetical And Theological (Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press,
2004).
J. Gresham Machen, The
Origin of Paul's Religion: The James Sprunt Lectures Delivered at Union
Theological Seminary in Virginia (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Co., 1925).
Leon Morris, The
Apostolic Preaching of the Cross (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Co., 1955).
John Pollock, The
Apostle: A Life of Paul, 3rd ed. (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1969,
2012); also published as The Man Who
Shook the World (Wheaton: Victor Books, 1972; originally The Apostle: A Life of Paul, New York:
Doubleday, 1969).
Stanley E. Porter, Paul
in Acts, in Library of Pauline
Studies, gen. ed. Stanley E. Porter (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers,
Inc., 1999; 2001 reprint of The Paul of
Acts: Essays in Literary Criticism, Rhetoric and Theology, in Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen
Testament 115, by Mohr Siebeck, Tubingen).
W. M. Ramsay, The
Cities of St. Paul: Their Influence on his Life and Thought (New York: A.
C. Armstrong and Son; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908); on Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=JryEbmKool0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[accessed 13 FEB 2013].
W. M. Ramsay, Pauline
and Other Studies in Early Christian History (New York: A. C. Armstrong and
Son, 1906); on Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=-1ZJAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[accessed 13 FEB 2013].
W. M. Ramsay, St. Paul
the Traveler and the Roman Citizen, 10th ed. (London: Hodder and Stoughton,
1907); on Christian Classics Ethereal
Library (CCEL) at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/ramsay/paul_roman.html
[accessed 13 FEB 2013].
W. M. Ramsay, The
Teaching of Paul in terms of The Present Day: The Deems Lectures in New York
University (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914); on Internet Archive at http://ia600404.us.archive.org/2/items/teachingofpaulin00rams/teachingofpaulin00rams.pdf
[accessed 13 FEB 2013].
A. T. Robertson, Epochs
in the Life of Paul: A Study of Development in Paul's Character (Grand
Rapids: Baker Book House, 1974).
Eckhard J. Schnabel, Paul The Missionary: Realities, Strategies
And Methods (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic,
2008).
Udo Schnelle, Apostle
Paul: His Life and Theology, trans. M. Eugene Boring (Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic, 2003; trans. from Paulus: Leben
und Denken, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., n.d.).
Thomas R. Schreiner, Paul,
Apostle of God's Glory in Christ: A Pauline Theology (Downers Grove, IL:
IVP Academic, 2001).
James Stalker, The
Life of St. Paul, (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1885; rev. ed. 2010 by
Kessinger Publishing from 1912 ed.); on Google
Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=vT0HAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
[accessed 7 FEB 2013].
James Ironside Still, St.
Paul on Trial (London: Student Christian Movement, 1923).
End Notes:
[1] Richard R. DeRidder, Discipling the Nations (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1975), pg. 19. See
also Thomas R. Schreiner, The King In His
Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments (Grand Rapids:
Baker Academic, 2013), pg. 494.
[2] The NET Bible note here (note 80; note 70 at 22:20 is
identical) —“The outer garment, or cloak, was taken off and laid aside to leave
the arms free (perhaps in this case as preparation for throwing stones).” —
appears to miss, dismiss, or ignore the legal connection of this action in
relationship to the carrying out of the penalty for a capital offense, e.g.,
stoning, as in Acts 7:58, and as recounted by Paul moments before in Acts
22:20. These garments are tokens presented as evidence of their consent and
participation by the witnesses to the execution, which, in the case of
Stephen’s stoning (7:58), were laid at Saul’s feet, and which he retained
(22:20). This is not a mere incidental issue for Paul, as if he was manning the
coat room at a convention hall. His prominence as a key player in the event,
along with his complicity, is documented by his role as the “keeper of the
coats.” See Brice C. Jones, “The
Meaning of the Phrase ‘And the Witnesses Laid Down Their Cloaks’ in Acts 7:58,”
The Expository Times 123:3, pp.
113-118; on Brice C. Jones at http://www.bricecjones.com/uploads/1/8/3/4/18344243/exttimarticlejones.pdf
[accessed 17 FEB 2015]. Understanding that the same Greek word for clothes occurs in all three places (7:58; 22:20; and 22:23), it is
inexplicable that this connection would be missed. Perhaps the lack of
consistency on the part of English translations in rendering this word in this
chapter obscured the connection for some: e.g.,
KJV, NASB, ESV, HCSB, and NIV all render it differently in 22:20 and 23. The
NLT provided a welcome exception, translating it “coats” in both instances. Source
for NET Bible note: Lumina at https://lumina.bible.org/bible/Acts+22
[accessed 6 FEB 2015]. Nor is the NET Bible note alone in this explanation. Far
from it. “No one is quite sure what they did with their cloaks. They either
tore them as a gesture of horror at blasphemy (14:14), or they threw them off
their bodies as if ready to stone Paul (cf. 7:58), or they shook them out as if
trying to rid themselves of the contamination of his blasphemy, or they waved
them wildly in the air to express their collective outrage.” John B. Polhill, Acts,
Vol. 26 in The New American Commentary,
gen. ed. David S. Dockery (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, Publishers,
1992), pg. 464. Perhaps some of the confusion over the verb here could be at
least minimized if consideration were given to what was done with the garments
when Stephen was murdered.
[3] “Again and again, however, the narrative
demonstrates, that all charges against Paul and the Christians — whether made by Jews or by pagans — are groundless.” Jim Hamilton, God’s Glory in Salvation Through Judgment: A Biblical Theology
(Wheaton: Crossway, 2010), pg. 435. See also the references Hamilton cites in
footnote 162 here: “Cf. Acts 16:35-40; 17:8-9; 18:12-17; 19:35-41; 22:25-29;
23:29; 24:22-27; 25:9, 11, 26-27; 26:32.”
[4] See on Paul as a citizen of Rome, and his
relationship to the State: Udo Schnelle, Apostle
Paul: His Life and Theology, trans. M. Eugene Boring (Grand Rapids: Baker
Academic, 2003; trans. from Paulus: Leben
und Denken, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., n.d.), pp. 60-62,
s.v. “Paul as Roman Citizen;” Adolf Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East: The New Testament Illustrated by Recently
Discovered Texts of the Graeco-Roman World, 4th rev. ed. of Licht vom Osten (Tübingen, 1909, 1923),
trans. Lionel R. M. Strachan (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, n.d.; 1978 ed.),
pg. 339; and Adolf Deissmann, Paul: A
Study in Social and Religious History, 2nd ed., trans. William E. Wilson
(New York: Harper Torchbooks, n.d.), pg. 77.
[5] “Sometimes
Roman citizenship was purchased through a bribe (Dio
Cassius, Roman History 60.17.4-9). That may well have been
the case here.” NET Bible note 106, on Lumina at https://lumina.bible.org/bible/Acts+22
[accessed 6 FEB 2015]. See also Adolf Deissmann, Paul: A Study in Social and Religious History, 2nd ed., trans.
William E. Wilson (New York: Harper Torchbooks, n.d.), pp. 45, note.
[6] On this emphatic use of the conjunction, which “seems
to have the effect of intensifying the personal pronoun,” and conveys the idea
of in fact, yea, or verily, etc., see
H. E. Dana and Julius R. Mantey, A Manual
Grammar of the Greek New Testament (Toronto: The Macmillan Co., 1927,
1955), pp. 161, 250-252; citing Julius R. Mantey, “New Translations For
Conjunctions In The Greek New Testament,” The
Expositor, ed. W. Robertson Nicoll, Eighth Series, Vol. XXIII (London:
Hodder and Stoughton, 1922), pg. 381; on Internet
Archive at https://archive.org/details/s8expositor23londuoft
[accessed 7 FEB 2015].
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