Act 12:18 | RWP | e4.org | As soon as it was day ( Γενομενης ημερας ). Genitive absolute, day having come. No small stir ( ταραχος ουκ ολιγος ). Litotes ( ουκ ολιγος ), occurs eight times in the Acts as in , and nowhere else in the N.T. Ταραχος (stir) is an old word from ταρασσω , to agitate. In the N.T only here and . Probably all sixteen soldiers were agitated over this remarkable escape. They were responsible for the prisoner with their lives (cf. ; ). Furneaux suggests that Manaen, the king's foster-brother and a Christian ( ), was the "angel" who rescued Peter from the prison. That is not the way that Peter looked at it. What was become of Peter ( τ αρα ο Πετρος εγενετο ). An indirect question with the aorist indicative retained. Αρα adds a syllogism (therefore) to the problem as in . The use of the neuter τ (as in ) is different from τις , though nominative like Πετρος , literally, "what then Peter had become," "what had happened to Peter" (in one idiom). See the same idiom in ( ουτος δε τ ). But this one what (verb γενησετα not used).

‏ Acts 12:18

As soon as it was day ( Γενομενης ημερας ). Genitive absolute, day having come.

No small stir ( ταραχος ουκ ολιγος ). Litotes ( ουκ ολιγος ), occurs eight times in the Acts as in 15:2, and nowhere else in the N.T. Ταραχος (stir) is an old word from ταρασσω, to agitate. In the N.T only here and 19:23. Probably all sixteen soldiers were agitated over this remarkable escape. They were responsible for the prisoner with their lives (cf. Ac 16:27; 27:42). Furneaux suggests that Manaen, the king's foster-brother and a Christian (13:1), was the "angel" who rescued Peter from the prison. That is not the way that Peter looked at it.

What was become of Peter ( τ αρα ο Πετρος εγενετο ). An indirect question with the aorist indicative retained. Αρα adds a syllogism (therefore) to the problem as in Lu 1:66. The use of the neuter τ (as in Ac 13:25) is different from τις, though nominative like Πετρος, literally, "what then Peter had become," "what had happened to Peter" (in one idiom). See the same idiom in Joh 21:21 ( ουτος δε τ ).

But this one what (verb γενησετα not used).