The Acts of the Apostles

INACCURACY AND DISCREPANCY 207
xviii. 8. This verse concerning Crispus breaks into
the context both in thought and in form, and there-
fore seems out of place here.
xviii. 11. iv avToig is not quite correct,
xviii. 17. It is not clear who the xaj/rej were (Jews ?
or Greeks ?), nor whether the Sosthenes so abruptly
introduced, and beaten without any given reason, was
a Christian or a Jew.
xviii. 18. It is not at once clear whether it was
St. Paul or Aquila who had taken the vow.
xviii. 22. It is not quite clear whether ai/a/3a?
implies the going up from the harbour into the city
of Caesarea or the going up to Jerusalem.
xviii. 22, 23. Here the brevity of the narrative is
strange.
xviii. 24—28 looks like an episode that has been
interpolated.
xix. 1. We should expect apeXOeiv, not iXOeiv
(Wellhausen).
xix. 3. The expression ^airTL(ea-Oai ek to ^loaavvov
paTTTKTiJLa is a solecism which is only formally excus-
able because of the preceding eh rl.
xix. 16. It is not till now that we learn that the
seven exorcists did not all participate here, and that
the occurrence took place in a house (the house is
described as if it had been already mentioned, so also
the daemoniac himself). Yet it is possible that ajuL(b6~
repot may be carelessly used for " several." The
whole episode is recorded as if it were only needful
to recall a well-known occurrence; the notoriety of
the event is indeed afterwards referred to in verse 17
and rendered comprehensible in verses 18 y.