Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

G. P. " seventy." " The Vatican, the Cambridge, and one other manuscript reado(3, which is the numeral mark for 72." Campbell.

As if they wished not to retain even the dust of their city, nor any thing belonging to them. Acts xiii. 51.

G. P. " seventy." " The Cambridge manuscript, the Vulgate and the Saxon, make them seventy-two as in v. 1." Campbell.

Allusion is made to Ps. xc. 13. This miraculous power was, of course, to be exercised without rashness, lest they should appear to tempt God.

A Jew, as is gathered from his coming from Jerusalem. It is not necessary to believe that this is the statement of a fact : it may be

He may have acted from mere natural compassion.

G. P. " And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side." Campbell remarks : " There are some strange inaccuracies in this version. It may be asked, whither did the Levite come, when he was already at the place 1 Or how does his coming and looking on consist with his passing by on the other side Indeed , the word ix^v in the original appears redundant, and is wanting in a few manuscripts as well as in the Vulgate, The word tSwv is badly rendered ' looked on.' "