A Textual Commentary On The Greek NT

Acts 28:13

Acts 28:13 perielo,ntej {C}

Although it is possible that the reading perielo,ntej is simply a scribal mistake (q having fallen out before o), a majority of the Committee preferred to follow a* B Y cop^{sa, (bo)}, taking the word to be a technical nautical term of uncertain meaning (it may be a shorter expression for ta.j avgku,raj perielo,ntej, as in Acts 27:40, “weighing (anchor),” “casting loose”). ³⁷⁸ The difficulty of the term would have given rise to the variant readings, perielqo,ntej( proselqo,ntej, and proelqo,ntej.

³⁷⁸ See also Westcott and Hort, Introduction, pp. 226 f.

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Acts 28:13

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