Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Acts 13:18

ἐτροφοφόρησεν for ἐτροποφόρησεν with ACE. Vulg. ‘mores eorum sustinuit.’

18. ἐτροφοφόρησεν αὐτούς, He bare them as a nursing father. This is the expression in Deuteronomy 1:31, where the LXX. have rendered, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ταύτῃ … ὡς τροφοφορήσει σε κύριος ὁ θεός σου ὡς εἴ τις τροφοφορήσαι ἄνθρωπος τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ. The allusion of St Paul is so clearly to this passage that there can be no hesitation about the choice of reading. ἐτροποφόρησεν is well supported by MS. authority, and is represented in the A.V., and in the text of the Revised Version, ‘he suffered their manners.’ But for this reading, true as it is to the facts, there is no such close parallel to be found in the books of Moses, while the other is equally true to fact, much more beautiful, and borne out by the words of the LXX., with which we can have no doubt that St Paul was very familiar.

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