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Paul and Barnabas, and their mutual labours in xiii., xiv. subsequent to the incident described in Gal. ii. 13, whether that incident took place just before or just after the Jerusalem Conference; in either case a previous mutual association between Paul and Barnabas in mission work amongst the Gentiles, such as that described in Acts xiii., xiv., accounts for the expectations Paul had evidently formed of Barnabas, Gal. ii. 13, and also for the position which the latter holds in Gal. ii. 1-10.
Space forbids us to make more than a very brief reference to the attempts to break up chap. xv. into various sources. Spitta, who places the whole section xv. 1-33 before chap. xiii., refers vv. I-4, 13-33 to his inferior source B, which the reviser has wrongly inserted here instead of in its proper place after , xii. 24, and has added wv. 5-12. Clemen in the same section, which he regards as an interpolation, assigns vv. 1-4, 13-18, 20-22, to his Redactor Judaicus, and vv. 5:12, 19, 23-33 to Redactor Antijudaicus. Clemen, like Spitta, holds that ver. 34 simply takes up again xiv. 28; further, he regards xxi. 17-208 as the source of xv. I-4, but Jiingst cautiously remarks that there is nothing strange in the fact that an author should use similar expres- sions to describe similar situations (p. 146)—a piece of advice which he might himself have remembered with advantage on other occasions. Hilgenfeld’s ‘‘ author to Theophilus” plays a large part in the representation of the negotiations at Jerusalem in respect to the Conference and the Decree, and this representatiomis based, according to Hilgenfeld, upon the narrative of the conversion of Cor- nelius which the same author had for- merly embellished, although not without some connection with tradition (Zeit- schrift fur wissenschaft. Theol., p. 59 Π., 1896). Still more recently Wendt (1899) credits the author of Acts with a tolerably free revision of the tradition he had re- ceived, with a view of representing the harmony between Paul andjthe original Apostles in the clearest light: thus the speeches of Peter and James in xv. are essentially his composition; but Wendt concludes by asserting that it seems’ in his judgment impossible to separate exactly the additions made by the author of Acts from the tradition, another note of caution against hasty subjective con- clusions.
CHAPTER XVI.—Ver. 1. κατήντησε: only in Luke and Paul, nine times in Acts, four times in Paul, xviii. 19, 24, xx.
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