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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Volume 2 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

been alive the verb would have been ὑπάρχει—see Zerwick § 346, n.1; BDR § 330, n. 2) a Gentile would probably suspect if they did not know that circumcision had been omitted on the eighth day, and would certainly—and not unreasonably—make trouble if Paul tried to pass him off as a Jew. The answer to this would be not to treat him or present him as a Jew. This would have been the right kind of tact, not the wrong kind, which Paul carefully avoided in the case of Titus (Gal. 2:3). It does not seem
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