text employed by Irenzeus, which contains many resemblances to D; to the text of St. Cyprian, which shows the same peculiarity; to the text of St. Augustine, especially in his treatises against the Mani- cheans, containing Acts i.-ii. 13, x. 13, 15, parts which are not found in the Fleury palimpsest: cf. also Tertullian, whose text, although it contains few quotations from Acts, resembles that of Irenzeus (add to these the work De promissionibus et predicationibus Det, referred, but wrongly, to Prosper, Prom. in Blass; and the Contra Varima- dum of. Vigilius, Vigil. in Blass: works not valued so highly by Hilgenfeld in his list of authorities for the Western text, Acta Apostolorum, p. xiii, 1899). By these aids Blass constructs his β text, even for those portions where D is wanting, v7z., from viii. 29, πρόσελθε to x. 14, ἔφαγον; from xxi. 2, ἐπιβάντες to ver. 10, ἀπὸ τῆς; xxii. 10, ὧν τέτακται to ver. 20, συνευδοκῶν, and from xxii. 29, ot µέλλοντες to the end of the book, and his aim is to restore the Western text as it existed about the time of Cyprian, cf. Evangelium secundum Lucam, p. xxxi. The merit of his work in showing how widespread and interesting was the Western form of text is acknowledged even by those who do not accept his conclusions, see, 6.5., Wendt, Apostel- geschichte (1899), p. 46, and Bousset, Theol. Rundschau, p. 413, 1898, although both object that Blass does not rightly estimate his different witnesses.
But Blass is able to refer in support of his use of some of the authorities mentioned to the important investigation of Dr. P. Corssen in his Der Cyprianische Text der Acta Apostolorum, 26 pp., 1892. This Latin text carries us back at least to the middle of the third century (and earlier still according to Harris, Four Lectures, etc., p. 53 ff., who thinks that the text might be called Tertullianic equally as well as Cyprianic; but see on the other hand Blass, Acta Apost., edit. m., p. xxxi.), as Corssen shows by comparing the readings of the Fleury palimpsest (sixth century) (1) with St. Cyprian’s quotations from Acts, (2) with similar quotations in the works of St. Augustine referred to above, De Actis cum Felice Manich@o and Contra epistolam Manichei, (3) with the quotations in the work mentioned above as that of Prosper (Harris, µ. s., p. 59). Behind these various texts Corssen concludes that there was a common Latin primitive, 7.e., the Cyprian text, as he calls it., Moreover, this Cyprian text isa Western witness superior in value
Acts xv. 20, 20. Hilgenfeld also adds to the Latin versions, Codex Vindobonensis 5. (probably sixth century), cf. xxviii, 20, and see Old Latin Biblical Texts, iv. (H. J. White, Oxon., 1897).