The Acts of the Apostles

CHAPTER VI
INSTANCES OF INACCURACY AND OF DISCREPANCY \VRITTEN
OR ORAL SOURCES ? CONCLUDING REMARKS CONCERN-
ING THE VALUE OF THE SOURCES AND OF ST. LUKE
AS AN AUTHOR.
What we include under the term "instances of
inaccuracy and of discrepancy" in the Acts of the
Apostles will be learned from the follov/ing collection
of examples. We group them according to the sepa-
rate bodies of tradition into which we have already
analysed the book, more especially in the preceding
chapter.
1, The We-sections.
We must here note that the ^y/xer? has not in every
passage the same connotation. It is not always quite
certain what persons are included in the word.
xvi. 10. The " we " is, without any explanation,
abruptly introduced in el^tjTrja-ajuLev.
xvi. 10. etV M.aK€Soviav . . . evayyeXlaracrOai
avTOvg.
xvi. 12, 18. The relation of ijjULepag rivd^ to xoXXa?
riixepa^ remains undefined.
xvi. 13, 16. It is not certain whether one or two
different visits to the irpoa-ev^) are intended.
XX. 7. The avToh after rjiJiwv is inexact, seeing
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