The Acts of the Apostles

112 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
tion fall into heterogeneous fragments. The geogra-
phical and chronological references and notices in
the book show the circumspection, the care, the
consistency, and the trustworthiness of the writer
and the parts where the " we " does not occur are also
in this particular so firmly and closely riveted to the
we-sections that the latter cannot be distinguished as
a source from the rest of the book. The author of
the we-sections is also the author of the complete
work.
Appendix : Special Readings of the so-ealled
jS-recension.
Also in the passages of the book with which we are
at present concerned the so-called /3-recension offers a
series of special readings.^ I here neglect the varia-
tion between 'lepovcraXriix and 'lepoaroXvjma.
1. viii. 1. UXrjv Tcov cnrocTToXcov has the seemingly
superfluous addition : o1 cfxeivav iv^IepovcraX^j/j.
(DLK).
2. viii. 4. In addition to the notice that those
dispersed by the persecution preached the
Word, we have also the seemingly superfluous
addition : Kara Tag TroXeig koi Kw/mag (civitates
et castella) ''lov^am (L). In the genuine text
of the book /ca)//»? is once found (viii. 25, vide
supra).
S. viii. 5. In place of eh rrjv iroXiv t^? ^ajmapiag
a Latin authority gives the explanatory read-
ing : eiV ^ajuidpeiav Trjv ttoXlv.
1 D denotes that the reading occurs only in Codex Bezse, L stands
for Latin, S for Syrian, and K for Coptic authorities.
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