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T.E. Page's classic commentary on the Greek version of The Acts of the Apostles. Contains extensive verse-by-verse exegetical commentary, as well as multiple “dissertations” on various subjects relating to the book of Acts.

τὸ ἄστρον …] The Heb. has Chiun for Ῥομφά or Ῥεφάν. ‘Chiun’ has been considered to mean ‘Saturn’. Among Egyptian divinities however two are found of foreign origin, Renpu and Ken: they occur together and form a pair, being male and female. The names so curiously correspond to ‘Rompha’ and ‘Chiun’ that it would seem that in some reference to them is to be found the explanation of the remarkable variation of the Hebrew and LXX.ab τὸ ἄστρον] probably refers to some symbol or type (cf.
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