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INACCURACY AND DISCREPANCY 225<br />

ix. 17. It is strange that Ananias knows about<br />

<strong>the</strong> appearance <strong>of</strong> Christ to St. Paul.<br />

ix. 26. It is now forgotten that it had been said<br />

in viii. 1 that all <strong>the</strong> Christians except <strong>the</strong> <strong>Apostles</strong><br />

had fled from Jerusalem.<br />

ix. 26. jj-r] 7n(TT€vovTe9 . . . ecpo^ovvTO—strange, see-<br />

ing that he had now been in active work as a Chris-<br />

tian missionary for a considerable time (tide ix. 23).<br />

From this survey we may confidently conclude that<br />

<strong>the</strong> majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> instances <strong>of</strong> inaccuracy and dis-<br />

crepancy in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Acts</strong>, seeing that <strong>the</strong>y occur so<br />

frequently, ought not to be regarded as indications<br />

that sources are here used. <strong>The</strong>y belong as much<br />

to <strong>the</strong> style <strong>of</strong> St. Luke as o<strong>the</strong>r phenomena <strong>of</strong><br />

constant appearance in his work, and accordingly<br />

contribute to streng<strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> character <strong>of</strong> literary<br />

unity in <strong>the</strong> book. For this very reason we have<br />

here included instances where <strong>the</strong> question <strong>of</strong> sources<br />

does not at all come into consideration. Let us<br />

group toge<strong>the</strong>r some examples <strong>of</strong> various character as<br />

follows :<br />

—<br />

In A we read (iii. 11) o Xaog . . . eKOa/jL/Boi, (viii. 5)<br />

KareXOcjov etV rrjv iroXiv €Kijpv(Tcr€v avTotg, (viii. 14)<br />

^ ^ajmapia . . . irpog avrov^, but we also read in <strong>the</strong><br />

Antiochean source (xv. 12) earlyrjcev to TrXrjOog koI<br />

i^KOvov, (xv. SO/.) TO irX^Oog . . . e-^^aprjaav^ (xv. 36)<br />

KaTOL iroXiv Tracrav^ cv aJg, and in those sections <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

second part which certainly were not drawn from<br />

any written source, (xvi. 4) SieTropevovTO Tag TroXeig<br />

TrapeSiSoarav avTOig, (xxi. 36) to TrXrjOog tov Xaov<br />

Kpdl^ovT€9j (xxv. 24) TO TrXrjOog eveTv^ov jjloi^ see also<br />

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