The Acts of the Apostles

THE SOURCES AND THEIR VALUE 187
hiatus is explained most simply by the results of our
analysis of the sources : the account in vi. 5 belongs
to the Antiochean record, while the accounts in viii.
5 ff. belong to the tradition connected with both
Jerusalem and Caesarea.-"- It is accordingly probable
that the sections iii. 1-v. 16 and viii. 5-40 ; ix. 29-
xi. 18 and xii. 1—24 belong together, that they
form to a certain extent a homogeneous whole, and
that they may be described on the one hand as tradi-
tion connected with both Jerusalem and Cassarea,
and on the other hand as tradition relating both to
St. Peter and St. Philip. Surveying them we find
before us a collection of traditions which is tolerably
homogeneous, and which though far from being so
connected and logically consistent as the Antiochean
source, nevertheless displays certain common charac-
teristics and a distinct connection in the events it
records. This compilation concludes with the
Herodian Persecution, the death of St. James, the
1 So far as viii. 5 ff. is concerned it must remain quite an open
question whether the Philip here is the Apostle or the Evaugelist.
The question is first settled in xxi. 8. The very attractive hypothesis
of the identity of the two Philips, for which support might easily be
derived from later tradition, indeed seemingly also from the gospel
of St. John, breaks down at this passage belonging to the we-sec-
tions. The theory that there never was a Philip among the Twelve,
but that the name of the Evangelist found its way into the list of the
Apostles, so that he was numbered as one of the Twelve, presupposes
a mistrust of this list which I cannot share, and which seems
to me quite unjustifiable. The name " Philip " was very common,
and the confusion of the two Philips in the second century was not
only suggested by the name and the missionary activity of the
Evangelist, but also by the highly probable fact that the Evangelist
had been a personal disciple of our Lord ; for we may well assume
that all the " Seven" were once personal disciples of our Lord.