Acts 18:7

Acts 18:7 evkei/qen

The Western reviser emended evkei/qen to avpo. tou/ VAku,la (D it^h), and other witnesses conflated the two readings; thus evkei/qen avpo. tou/ VAku,la, 614 (1799) 2412. But it is unlikely that opposition of the Jews in the synagogue would have caused Paul to change his residence from the home of Aquila, with whom Paul continued to have good relations. The Western revision reflects, as Bruce ³³⁶ points out, “a misunderstanding of Luke’s meaning; Paul did not remove his private lodgings from Aquila’s house to that of Justus, but made Justus’s house his preaching headquarters instead of the synagogue,” which was next door.

³³⁶ F. F. Bruce, Commentary on the Book of the Acts; the English Text…(London, 1954), p. 370, n. 17.