Act 22:17-21 | RWP | e4.org | When I had returned ( μο υποστρεψαντ ), while I prayed ( προσευχομενου μου ), I fell ( γενεσθα με ). Note dative μο with εγενετο as in verse , genitive μου (genitive absolute with προσευχομενου ), accusative of general reference με with γενεσθα , and with no effort at uniformity, precisely as in , which see. The participle is especially liable to such examples of anacolutha (Robertson, Grammar , p. 439).

‏ Acts 22:17-21

When I had returned ( μο υποστρεψαντ ),

while I prayed ( προσευχομενου μου ),

I fell ( γενεσθα με ). Note dative μο with εγενετο as in verse 6, genitive μου (genitive absolute with προσευχομενου ), accusative of general reference με with γενεσθα, and with no effort at uniformity, precisely as in 15:22, 23 which see. The participle is especially liable to such examples of anacolutha (Robertson, Grammar, p. 439).

Saw him saying ( ιδειν αυτον λεγοντα ). The first visit after his conversion when they tried to kill him in Jerusalem (9:29).

Because ( διοτι, δια and οτ ),

for that.

Imprisoned and beat ( ημην φυλακιζων κα δερων ). Periphrastic imperfect active of φυλακιζω (LXX and late Koine, here alone in the N.T.) and δερω (old verb to skin, to beat as in Mt 21:35 which see).

In every synagogue ( κατα τας συναγογας ). Up and down ( κατα ) in the synagogues.

Was shed ( εξεχυννετο ). Imperfect passive of εκχυννω (see on Mt 23:35), was being shed.

Witness ( μαρτυρος ). And "martyr" also as in Re 2:13; 17:6. Transition state for the word here.

I also was standing by ( κα αυτος ημην εφεστως ). Periphrastic second past perfect in form, but imperfect (linear) in sense since εστωσ=ισταμενος (intransitive).

Consenting ( συνευδοκων ). The very word used by Luke in Ac 8:1 about Paul. Koine word for being pleased at the same time with (cf. Lu 11:48). Paul adds here the item of "guarding the clothes of those who were slaying ( αναιρουντων as in Lu 23:32; Ac 12:2) him" (Stephen). Paul recalls the very words of protest used by him to Jesus. He did not like the idea of running away to save his own life right where he had helped slay Stephen. He is getting on dangerous ground.

I will send thee forth far hence unto the Gentiles ( Εγω εις εθνη μακραν εξαποστελω σε ). Future active of the double ( εξ, out, απο, off or away) compound of εξαποστελλω, common word in the Koine (cf. Lu 24:49). This is a repetition by Jesus of the call given in Damascus through Ananias (9:15). Paul had up till now avoided the word Gentiles, but at last it had to come, "the fatal word" (Farrar).