Verse 18
18. Three years Styled many days by Luke. Acts 9:23. In addition to what we have there said, we add the following from Lightfoot: “ Many days in the Septuagint denotes any indefinite period, however long.
Genesis 37:34; 2 Samuel 14:2; 1 Kings 3:11, ‘a long life.’”
See Peter The Greek word is expressive, to be acquainted with Peter. For Peter, the better reading is Cephas, as in Galatians 2:11.
Fifteen days That is, a fortnight, including, perhaps, two sabbaths; departing doubtless on the fifteenth day. “This,” says Wordsworth, “was long enough for Peter to have detected and exposed him had he been unsound.” It was too short, Paul argues, for him to have borrowed Peter’s gospel.
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