Acts 16:4

The Western text (D syrhmg Ephraem) expands the first part of the verse, reading dierco,menoi de. ta.j po,leij evkh,russon [kai. paredi,dosan auvtoi/j, so D, spoiling the syntax] meta. pa,shj parrhsi,aj to.n ku,rion VIhsou/n Cristo.n a[ma paradido,ntej kai. ta.j evntola.j avposto,lwn kai,…(“And while going through the cities they preached [and delivered to them], with all boldness, the Lord Jesus Christ, delivering at the same time also the commandments of the apostles and …”). It may well be that, as Weiss suggests, 311 the addition was made in order to provide an explanation for the growth of the church, described in ver. Acts 16:5.


311 B. Weiss, Der Codex D, p. 84.

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