The Acts of the Apostles

^24 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
XV. 23. Brethren, i.e. Churches, in Syria and Cilicia
have not been mentioned up to this point, also the
vjuLag is covered only by xv. 1 (Antioch).
XV. 31. avayv6vT€^—change of subject. The par-
ticiple also refers to 'TrXrjOog.
XV. 32 connects so closely with verse 30 that verse
31 looks like an interpolation (vide supra) ; however,
Koi, avTol . . . irapeKoKecrav is against such a sup-
position (the apposition begins after not before Koi
avToi, and is confined to the two words : Trpocprjrai
ovreg).
XV. 35. iui€Ta KOI erepcov ttoWoov—the narrator
thus knows more than he says, or does he only look
back to xiii. 1 ? This verse would not, however, cover
the word ttoXXo/.
XV. 36. TToXiv TToicraVj ev aig.
XV. 40. It is most strange that here, in opposi-
tion to verse 33, it is presupposed that Silas was in
Antioch.
6. Chap. ix. 1-30.
ix. 1. ert connects with viii. 3.
ix. 2. We are not prepared by viii. 1 for Chris-
tians in Damascus.
ix. 11. We learn only now (see verse 8) that St.
Paul had taken lodging with a man named Judas in
the street that was called " straight." Here also for
the first time we learn that St. Paul was a native of
Tarsus. I cannot see, with Weiss, that Saul is here
introduced as a person quite unknown to Ananias (so
that a discrepancy with verse 13 would result).