Ver. 28. χρόνον οὐκ ὀλίγον: only in Acts, where it occurs eight times, cf. xii. 18, etc. ; on the length of time thus spent see ‘ Chronology of the N.T.,” Hastings’ B.D., and also Ramsay, Church in the Roman Empire, p. 74, with which cf. Lewin, Fasti Sacri, p. 288.
Additional Note.—In chapters xiii. and xiv. many critics find the commencement of a new source, a belief based to a great extent upon the view that Barnabas and Saul are here introduced as if they had not been previously mentioned. But whilst some description is given of each of the remaining persons in the list (xiii. 1), nothing is added to the name of Barnabas or of Saul, so that it seems quite permis- sible to argue that these two are thus simply mentioned by name because they were already known. It is therefore not surprising to find that some writers, e.g., Hilgenfeld, regard these chapters as part of a previous source, so too Wendt, Spitta, Jingst. Others see in these chapters a separate document, possibly not used again by the author of Acts; a document composed by a different hand from that to which we owe the ““We” sections, and incorporated by the author of the whole book into his work (McGiffert). Others again see in these same chapters the commencement of a Travel-Document, containing not only these two chapters, but also the later journeys of St. Paul, coming to us from
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27. παραγενόµενοι δὲ καὶ συναγαγόντες τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, ἀνήγγειλαν }
σ 3 / ς Ν 3 Φαν Vow » a ” U οσα ἐποίησεν 0 Θεὸς µετ αὐτῶν, καὶ οτι ἤνοιξε τοῖς έἔθνεσι θύραν
πίστεως.
28. διέτριβον δὲ ἐκεῖ χρόνον οὐκ ὀλίγον σὺν τοῖς μαθηταῖς.
1 ανηγγειλα», but imperf. SABC 18, 4ο, 61, Syr. Pesh., Boh., Tisch., W.H., R.V., Weiss, Wendt—Blass and Hilg. follow T.R. For per’ αντων D, Gig., so Hilg.,
read pera των Ψνχων αντων, perhaps Syriac influence (Harris).
Blass brackets
και οτι ... θ, πιστεως without any authority, and adds the same words to xv. 4,
see below ᾖ. ο.
the same hand as the “Νε” sections, and from the same hand as the rest of the book (Rantsay). It is disappointing to find how Clemen, while referring xiii., xiv. to his good source, Historia Pauli, goes even further than Spitta in breaking up the different parts of the narrative: ε.ρ., xiv. 8-11, we owe to the Redactor Judaicus, and vv. 19, 20, 22b, 23. in the same chapter to the Redactor Anti- Judaicus. (See on the whole question Hilgenfeld, Zeitschrift fur wissenschaft. Theol., 1¢ Heft, 1896; Wendt (1899), Ρ. 225, note; Zoéckler, Apostelgeschichte, ΡΡ. 243, 244 (second edition).) It is no wonder in face of the unsatisfactory attempts to break up these chapters, or to separate their authorship from that of the rest of the book, that Zahn should maintain that a man like Luke needed for the composition of chapters xiii.-xxviii. no other source than his recollections of the narratives recited by St. Paul him- self, or of the events in which he, as St. Paul’s companion, had participated, Einleitung in das Ν. Τ., ii., 412 (1809), cf. Nésgen, Apostelgeschichte, pp. 25, 26. Certainly the unity of authorship between the two chapters under consideration and the rest of the book seems most clearly marked in language and style: ε.ρ., κατασείειν, xiii. 6, only found elsewhere int ΝΟΝ. Ασε κ πη ix stg ail xxds τοι ἐπαίρειν τὴν Φφωνήν, xiv. 11, only else- where in N.T., Luke xi. 27, Acts ii. 14, xxii. 22; παραχρῆμα, xili. 11, elsewhere in N.T., ten times in Luke’s Gospel (only twice in St. Matthew, and not at all in the other Evangelists), Acts iii. 7, ν. το, xii. 23, xvi. (26), 33; qv, with participle, xiii. 48, xiv. 7, 12, 26; δή, xiii. 2; ἄχρι, xiii. 6, 11; txavés with χρόνος, xiv. 3, elsewhere in N.T. in Luke only, and eight times in Acts in all parts; ἀτενίζειν in xiii. g and xiv. g and the frequent re- currence of τέ in both chapters. It is also perhaps worthy of observation that out of some twenty-one words and phrases found only in the ‘‘ We” sections, and in the rest of Acts (Hawkins, Hore Synop- tic@, p. 151), Six occur in these two