ACTS 26:1 The text of the Western reviser, preserved in the margin of the Harclean Syriac, 374 adds the words, “_confident, and encouraged by the Holy Spirit,_ Paul stretched out his hand …,” a reading that A. C. Clark reconstructed in Greek, qarrw/n kai. evn pneu,mati a`gi,w| para,klhsin labw,n.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACTS 26:4 @oi`# VIoudai/oi Instead of VIoudai/oi î74 B C* E Y 3 33 81 209 234 241 242 489 611 618 642 945 1642 1704 1739 1875 1884 1891 2495), oi` VIoudai/oi is read by the Textus Receptus, following a A C2 P and most minuscules. A majority of the Committee thought it best to represent the evidenc... [ Continue Reading ]
ACTS 26:14 gh/n After eivj th.n gh/n the Western text (614 1611 2147 itgig syrhmg) adds dia. to.n fo,bon evgw. mo,noj (“when we had all fallen to the ground _on account of fear, only I_ heard …”).... [ Continue Reading ]
ACTS 26:15 VIhsou/j After VIhsou/j the Western text (181 614 itgig vgmss syrp,hmg with *) adds o` Nazwrai/oj (from Acts 22:8).... [ Continue Reading ]
ACTS 26:16 @me# {C} In order to represent the balance between external evidence and transcriptional probability, a majority of the Committee preferred to include me in the text, but to enclose it within square brackets.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACTS 26:20 Although the text of î74 a A B vgmss, which was adopted by the Committee, is hardly tolerable as Greek, at the same time the addition of eivj before pa/san in the Byzantine text (E H L P and apparently all minuscules) has every appearance of being a scribal alleviation of the solecism.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACTS 26:28 poih/sai {A} The difficulty of capturing the nuances intended in this verse is notorious. Without entering into the lexical problems (e.g. does evn ovli,gw| mean “in a short time” or “with little effort”?), from the standpoint of textual criticism the reading that is supported by î74vid... [ Continue Reading ]