The Acts of the Apostles

242 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
(3) Elsewhere in this passage, so it seems, traces
are to be found of the work of an editor.
(4) Such traces are also found in the passage iv.
25-31.
(5) Chap. iv. 32 presents difficulties in both form
and subject-matter, and does not agree with iv. 36 /.
the same remark applies to iv. 34/.
(6) Chap. V. 14 looks like an interpolation which
breaks the thread of the context.
(7) In chapter x. it seems possible to distinguish
the work of an editor and a fixed text which he
has worked up.
(8) The same seems to be the case in xii. 1-6.
Moreover, the brevity of the notice concerning the
martyrdom of St. James, and of the sufl'erings of
other Christians at the same time, is best explained
on the assumption that the source contained stories
about St. Peter, and accordingly only cursorily touched
upon other subjects, however important they may have
been (vide supra, p. 125).
(9) The expression xii. 17: eiropevOrj ek erepov
TOTTOv looks like the concluding sentence of a source,
in the reproduction of which the name of the place
has been suppressed.
I do not think that I need weary the reader with
a detailed investigation of these instances, seeing that
I have not yet been able to attain to a quite complete
and certain result, and have advanced only a little
beyond the position which I formulated in my earlier
work ("Luke the Physician," pp. 116/.).
For some passages of this body of tradition it is,
in my opinion, very probable that St. Luke depended
;