Discovery BoxActs 17:31 
Context17:31 because he has set 1 a day on which he is going to judge the world 2 in righteousness, by a man whom he designated, 3 having provided proof to everyone by raising 4 him from the dead.”
Acts 22:10
Context22:10 So I asked, 5 ‘What should I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Get up 6 and go to Damascus; there you will be told about everything 7 that you have been designated 8 to do.’
1 tn Or “fixed.”
2 sn The world refers to the whole inhabited earth.
3 tn Or “appointed.” BDAG 723 s.v. ὁρίζω 2.b has “of persons appoint, designate, declare: God judges the world ἐν ἀνδρὶ ᾧ ὥρισεν through a man whom he has appointed Ac 17:31.”
sn A man whom he designated. Jesus is put in the position of eschatological judge. As judge of the living and the dead, he possesses divine authority (Acts 10:42).
4 tn The participle ἀναστήσας (anasthsa") indicates means here.
5 tn Grk “So I said.”
6 tn Grk “Getting up.” The participle ἀναστάς (anasta") is an adverbial participle of attendant circumstance and has been translated as a finite verb.
7 tn Grk “about all things.”
8 tn Or “assigned,” “ordered.” BDAG 991 s.v. τάσσω 2.a has “act. and pass., foll. by acc. w. inf.…περὶ πάντων ὧν τέτακταί σοι ποιῆσαι concerning everything that you have been ordered to do 22:10.” There is an allusion to a divine call and commission here.
