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The Western text of Acts presents the reader with numerous departures from the more familiar text found in the majority of witnesses. These variants often appear trivial, but on occasion they present substantial divergences from the majority text. One such variant is that found in Acts 19.1, dealing with Paul's route to Ephesus on his so-called third missionary journey.
1 Δεῖ με πάντως τ⋯ν ⋯ορτ⋯ν τ⋯ν ⋯ρχομένην ποι⋯σαι εἰς '[εροσόλυμ. D (δέ for με and ⋯μέραν for second τ⋯ν: D) Ψ 88 104 326 383 436 614 629(Gk & Lat) 630 1505 (2495) Byz; d(Beuron 5) g(Beuron 51) w(Beuron 58) dem(Beuron 59) ard(Beuron 61) Michiganl 46 (Beuron 63) vgmss(Gregory 1260.1266.1700.231a); nedl; prov; gertcpl; syr; ethmss; Ephr.cat Chr Cass Thphyl].
2 Zahn, T., Die Apostelgeschichte des Lucas (Leipzig: Deichert, 1919/1921) 2.672–3 (but see also id., Introduction to the New Testament [Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1909] 3.30); Knox, W. L., St Paul and the Church of Jerusalem (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1925) xx–xxi; Williams, C. S. C., Alterations to the Text of the Synoptic Gospels and Acts (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1951) 56; Bruce, F. F., The Acts of the Apostles (2nd ed.; London: Inter Varsity, 1952) 353; Black, M., ‘The Holy Spirit in the Western Text of Acts’, New Testament Textual Criticism: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. Metzger (ed. Epp, E. J. and Fee, G. D.; Oxford: Clarendon, 1982) 164–5.
3 Aland, B., ‘Entstehung, Charakter und Herkunft der sog. westlichen Textes untersucht an der Apostelgeschichte’, EThL 62 (1986) 19.
4 Streeter, B. H., ‘The Primitive Text of Acts’, JThS 34 (1933) 237–8.
5 Streeter, ‘Primitive Text’, 237; see Ramsay, W. M., St. Paul The Traveller and the Roman Citizen (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895) 263–4.
6 Streeter, ‘Primitive Text’, 237–8.
7 M-E. Boismard, ‘The Texts of Acts; A Problem of Literary Criticism?’, New Testament Textual Criticism (n. 2 above), 154–7.
8 The sequence ⋯γ⋯νετο…Πατελθε
ν has become ε
Πεν… τνεμα…ἕρχεται (sc. Παλος); Kilpatrick, G. D. suspected imitation of Attic usage in the historic present here: ‘The Two Texts of Acts’, Studien zum Text und zur Ethik des Neuen Testaments. Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Heinrich Greeven (BZNW 47; ed. Schrage, W.; Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1986) 191.
9 Weiss, B., Der Codex D in der Apostelgeschichte. Textkritische Untersuchung (TU 2:1; Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1897) 94 n. 1; Metzger, B. M., A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (corrected ed.; London/New York: United Bible Societies, 1975) 469.
10 On this phenomenon, see Strange, W. A., The Problem of the Text of Acts (SNTSMS 71; Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1991).
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