| 2. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the circumstantial aorist participle heuron {εὑρών | heurṓn} ‘having found’, which frames the action leading into the main verb proselthen {προσῆλθεν | prosḗlthen} ‘he went to, approached’. The indefinite pronoun tina Ioudaion {τινα Ἰουδαῖον | tína Ioudaîon} ‘a certain Jew’ is specified by onomati {ὀνόματι | onómati} ‘by name’ as Aquila. The phrase Pontikon tō̂i gȇnei {Ποντικὸν τῷ γένει | Pontikón tō̂i gȇnei} uses the dative of respect to indicate his Pontic origin. The perfect participle elēluthóta {ἐληλυθότα | elēluthóta} ‘having come’, modified by prosphátōs {προσφάτως | prosphátōs} ‘recently’, takes apó tês Italías {ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰταλίας | apó tês Italías} ‘from Italy’. Coordination with kaí Prískillan gynaîka autoû {καὶ Πρίσκιλλαν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ | kaí Prískillan gynaîka autoû} adds Priscilla as his wife. The causal infinitive clause dià tò diatetachénaí Kláudiôn chōrízhesthai pás-tas toús Ioudaíous apó tês Rhṓmēs {διὰ τὸ διατεταχέναι Κλαύδιον χωρίζεσθαι πάντας τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἀπὸ τῆς Ῥώμης | dià tò diatetachénaí Kláudiôn chōrízhesthai pás-tas toús Ioudaíous apó tês Rhṓmēs} explains why they had come, with Claudius as the infinitive subject and chōrízhesthai governing both ‘all the Jews’ and ‘from Rome’. |