The Acts of the Apostles

INACCURACY AND DISCREPANCY 219
5. The Jerusalem-Antiochean Source (vi. 1-
viii. 4 ; xi. 19-30 ; xii. 25 [xiii. l]-xv. 35).
vi. 1. Abrupt introduction of the Hellenists and
the Hebrews (ot jULaOrjTal also appears here for the
first time).
vi. 1. 7r\t]0ui/6vT(jov Twv /JiaOrjTwv, a very modest
way of speaking after the great numbers recorded in
chapters ii.—v.
vi. 1. Tij StaKovla tij KaOtjjULepLvi]—this regular
ministration to the needs of the poor is something
quite different from the community of goods spoken
of in chapters ii.-v.
vi. 2. OL SooScKa only here (yet see ii. 14).
vi. 2. The assemblage of the whole irXyjOog (verse
5) seems still to imply only a moderate number.
Evidently the Apostles up to this time had also
ministered to the needs of the poor.
vi. 5. If viii. 5 ff. comes from the same source, it
cannot but seem strange that more is not said here
about St. Philip.
vi. 6^. A very awkward change of subject.
vi. 7. The verse does not fit very weU into the
context.
vi. 8. This second characterisation of St. Stephen
(^vide verse 5) is strange, especially seeing that no
ripara k. a-rnxeia are afterwards recorded in connection
with him.
vi. 9. It is doubtful how we are to distinguish,
or rather to arrange, the Hellenists here introduced
to our notice.