Acts 7:3-4

Several Old Latin witnesses (including itgig, p) remove the clause meta. to. avpoqanei/n to.n pate,ra auvtou/ from its place in ver. Acts 7:4 and insert it just before ver. Acts 7:3. Probably the motive for this alteration was to bring the text into closer accord with the interpretation that the ordinary reader of Genesis 11:27 ff. would be likely to derive from the progress of the narrative. 157


157 In actuality, however, a strict analysis of the account in Genesis proves that Abraham departed from Haran many years before his father’s death at the age of 205 years ( Genesis 11:32). According to Genesis 11:26 Terah was 70 years old when Abraham was born, and according to Genesis 12:4 Abraham was 75 years old when he left Terah, who therefore had sixty more years of life (205—[70+75] = 60).

Continues after advertising
Continues after advertising

Old Testament