Acts 8:6 prosei/con de. oi` o;cloi

Here the jejune superfluity of the expansions of the Western text was too much even for Blass, 171 who refused to adopt the addition of D, w`j de. h;kouon pa/n (itd pa,ntej), oi` o;cloi prosei/con…(“And when they heard everything, the multitudes gave heed …”), with which is related the still more turgid reading of syrp (“And when the men who were there had heard his preaching, they gave heed to him and acquiesced to all that he said …”). 172


171 B. Weiss (Der Codex D, p. 68) expresses surprise at this rejection by Blass, for the reading “is not more superfluous than innumerable additions in D” (compare the comments on 8.1 above).

172 On the probable origin of this expanded reading, see F. H. Chase, The Old Syriac Element in the Text of Codex Bezae (London. 1893), pp. 75—77.

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