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inspection, however, its meaning is not clear
moreover, we can see how it has arisen out of the
genuine text (vide Weiss, he. cit., s. 101 /.).
It is also somewhat incredible that St. Luke
should have taken such interest in noting the
person with whom St Paul with his large
following of Gentile Christians found hos-
pitality for one night on the way between
Caesarea and Jerusalem, while it would be not
unimportant to mention the man who was
courageous enough to offer shelter to St. Paul
and his company during their stay in Jerusalem.
21, xxvii. 5. A Latin authority may perhaps
have read SiairXevcraPTe^ top J^iXUiov koKttov
Kcu TO TLajuiCpvXiov ireXayo^ instead of to
ireXayo^ to Kara rrjv "KiXUiav koi HajuLCpvXiav
SiaTrXevcravTeg.
22. XXViii. 16. LS and Cod. Mediolan. read the
words e^o) T^9 irape/uLpoXrji after jueveiv Kad"*
eavTov (explanatory).
Many of these readings are not uninteresting ; but
only those in xii. 10 and XX. 15 have a certain claim
to originality. No certain conclusion can be drawn as
to the birthplace of these interpolations. The inter-
polations in xiv. 25 (Attalia), and in xvii. 1 (Apollonia),
the insertion of Myra in xxi. 1 and of the village
between Caesarea and Jerusalem in XXi. 16/!, give us
no information on this point. The interpolation of
Thessalia in xvii. 15 is more important. It is natural
to suppose that the interpolator had some interest in
apologising for St. Paul's neglect of this province.
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