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160 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES though here and there a story has been worked up.^ It is a remarkable fact that (apart from the Ascension) rnily the miracUs of the Lame Man, of the Death of Ananias and Sapphira, and of the Release of St. Peter from prison, are related in connection with Jerusalem itself^ This self-restraint vouches well for the rela- tive trustworthiness of the Jerusalem accounts ; but we may also say, in regard to all the miracles narrated in the Acts, that measured by the miracles of the Acta Pauli or of the Acta Johannis and later apocryphal Acts of Apostles they appear scarcely miracles at all. The miracles of the we-sections are almost all miracles of the first degree ; the miracles in chaps. i.—XV. are partly of the same degree, partly, however, miracles of the second degree. The miracles of the so-called apocryphal Acts are miracles of the second or third degree. By miracles of the third degree I * I have not as yet dealt with the four realistic appearances of angels. The first (i. 10/.) is insignificant ; the two " men " at the Ascension as angeli interpretes are almost necessary embellishments of such narratives (c/. the appearance of angels at the sepulchre). The two narratives, v. 19 and xii. 7-11 (the angel unlocking the prison) are evidently doublets (on this vid^ infra). The more ancient form here is that St. Peter (not '* the Apostles ") was miraculously {i.e. by an angel) released from prison (chap. xii.). We may suppose that such a wonderful [i.e. entirely unexpected) release really occurred ; the details of the story vouch for this. It was the general belief that every child of God, and especially St. Peter (xii. 15), had his own guardian angel. This at once afforded a means for explaining the manner of the deliverance, and even if we cannot suppose that St. Peter himself told the story as we read it in chap, xii., still it could have been so told by his friends, Laslty, the speaking of the angel to St. Philip (viii. 26) is as a "miracle" insignificant. * The remaining miracles are connected with Damascus, Lydda, Joppa, Cyprus, and Lystra.
MIRACLES AND WORKS OF THE SPIRIT 161 mean those absurd stories of wonders which have not the tiniest substratum of fact, but are demonstrably either fuhe inventions from beginning to end or old stories of miracles or popular myths in a new setting. The critics of the Acts of the Apostles have not as a rule a sufficient acquaintance with this unwieldy col- lection of fabulous stories. If they knew them they would not make so much ado about the stories of miracles in the Acts. The observation made above that only three stories of miracles are connected with Jerusalem suggests an inquiry into the whole question of the grouping of the narratives of the Acts. Starting in this way we may perhaps approach nearer to the solution of the enigma which the book presents. The next chapter is dedicated to this question.
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