The Acts of the Apostles

INACCURACY AND DISCREPANCY 221
vii. 51 y! The conclusion, with its indignant re-
proaches, follows very abruptly ; we must suppose
that examples justifying these reproaches have been
omitted, and that something was said about our
Lord and His attitude towards the Temple. The
Vision of chap. vii. 56 also seems to demand this.
vii. 57—viii. 3. These seven verses have much in
them that is strange : (1) The information given about
Saul is scattered in three places (vii. 58 ; viii. 1,3);
(2) the eXiOo^oXovv of verse 58 is without an object, and
is repeated in verse 59 ; so that 58^ and the first two
words of verse 59 look like an interpolation, especially
as the /uidpTvpes of vi. 13 suddenly appear again in a
very disconcerting fashion, and now serve as the
executioners of St. Stephen ; (3) 59* and 60 look like
a genuine doublet, of which the second member is
probably the interpolation ; (4) the second passage
concerning Saul (viii. 1*) is also probably interpolated,
since viii. 1** connects excellently with vii. 60 or 59
(5)
TTcti/Te? . . . TrXrjv twv airocTTokbov (viii. 1°) cannot
be correct, and must belong to the editor ; for the
Hellenists (the followers of St. Stephen) were the only
persons affected, and the Apostles on the other hand
were not without a following. Lastly, this notice is
inconsistent with verse 2; for the avSpeg evXa^eig
must surely have been Christians. The Trdvreg Siea--
irdptjcrav k.t.X. is thus intended to prepare for viii. 5.
Chap. viii. 3 is perhaps original; Kara rovg o'lKovg
shows yet again that viii. 1° is an interpolation.
viii. 4. The source extends to SitjXOov (inch), vide
xi. 19.
xi. 20, compared with xi. 19, is somewhat awk-
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