The Acts of the Apostles

48 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
has accordingly been corrected by various hands
from a chronological point of view—among others
and in accordance with its own style. The second
group is the most important ; it alone has a claim to
be regarded as a relic of a very ancient recension.
To it also may be assigned the passage x. 41 overlooked
in the preceding list, where D sah Egsw and
Const. App. vi. 30 insert ^/mepag rea-crapaKovra in
accordance with i. 3. We ought perhaps also to
mention ix. 30, where ^lol vvkto^ is inserted by E minusc.
180 sgp (in imitation of numerous passages vide
supra).
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It is improbable that St. Luke himself for-
mally published the Acts of the Apostles (so also
Ewald, cf. Wellhausen, he. cit. s. 19/); for (1)
many instances of roughness suggest the absence
of a last careful revision by the author ; (2) the
history of the text of the book teaches that from
the earliest times several, or at least two, editions
of the book were in currency. The very fact that
the book was not published by the author himself
made it possible for different editions to establish
themselves. One does not, however, in matters of
chronology miss the revising hand of the author
(contrary to Ramsay). There is not, in my opinion,
a single passage in this book where a developed
chronological notice (like that of St. Luke iii. 1, 2)
would have been in place.