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Acts 23:15

Acts 23:15

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Do ye for ye, A.V.; the R.T. omits tomorrow, in the A.V.; judge of his case more exactly for inquire something more perfectly concerning him, A.V.; slay for kill, A.V. With the council. Either the temporary feeling of the Pharisees had subsided, and their old hatred come to the front again, or the high priest and Sadducees, by some plausible excuse, persuaded the Pharisees of the council to join with them in asking that Paul might be brought before them again.

Signify. The word ἐμφανίζειν only occurs here and at , in this sense of "signifying" or "making known" something, which it has in , LXX.. Codex Alexandrinus (as the rendering of רמַאָ, to tell), and in 2 Macc.

3:7, and in Josephus, as also in classical Greek. Elsewhere in the New Testament it means "to manifest," or "show," as in , ; in the passive voice "to appear," as in ; ; and in a technical legal sense "to give information" (; , ).

Judge of his case more exactly; διαγινώσκειν κ. τ. λ. The word only occurs here and in . The classical use of the word in the sense of "deciding," "giving judgment," is in favor of the R.V.

; διαγινώσκειν, like διάγνωσις, diagnosis (), is a word of very frequent use in medical writers, as is the ἀκριβέστερον, which here is joined with it (, note).

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