The Acts of the Apostles

THE SOURCES AND THEIR VALUE 167
sion of the book begins with xiii. 1, because the section
opens with the words : //craj/ Se ev ^AvTioyela Kara
Tiju oucrav eKKXtjcriav irpocpijTai koi SiSacTKaXoi. But
it was necessary to mention the name « 'Ai/rio^^e^a"
here (instead of omitting the name as in xii. 25 and
writing " there "), because even in xii. 25 the name
of the city is left to be supphed after virearrpey^av^
and it would have meant too great reliance upon the
memory of the reader if the name of the city had
been again unexpressed. Again, the purpose of the
words Tr]v ovcav eKKkrjarlav is not to inform us that
there was a church in Antioch, but to distinguish the
prophets who are here named as belonging to this city
from those prophets belonging to Jerusalem who had
come down to Antioch (xi. 27 ff.). Hence xiii. 1 ff.
necessarily presupposes not only xii. 25 but also xi.
27-30. But now we at once notice that this section,
although it introduces a journey of St. Barnabas and
St. Paul to Judaea and Jerusalem, is nevertheless
written from the standpoint of Antioch—even if we
do not accept the reading of Codex D {crvvea-TpajuLiuLevcov
fjfjLwv) as original (this reading is correct in that it
marks that the tradition here belongs not to Jeru-
salem but to Antioch)—for it is to Antioch that
the prophets come from Jerusalem, and the Apostles
depart from Antioch and return thither again (while
nothing is said about the return of the prophets who
came from Jerusalem). The setting of this passage
is therefore found to be exactly similar to that given
in xiii. 1 /. and xiv. 26 /., and in xv. 1 ff. and xv.
80-35. Thus all from xi. 27-xv. 35 is Antiochean
tradition, with the exception of xii. 1-24, a 'piece of