The Acts of the Apostles

220 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
vi. 12^. Weiss here supposes a change of subject,
but this is not quite certain.
vi. 12. €19 TO avpiSpiov (vide verse 15)—but verses
13 and 14 (6 roTrog ovrog), and vii. 54^., suggest
rather a pubUc place (the Temple-court) and the
action of a riotous crowd. This is still further suggested
by the circumstance that, except in the conventional
verse 1 of chapter viii., there is no indication of a
judicial trial, and that the speech of St. Stephen does
not in the least begin as if it were a direct answer to
charges preferred in a court of law.
vi. 13y^ is essentially a doublet to verse 11.
vii. 4. /uLerooKia-ev— a change of subject, which
vanishes if we delete 4* as an interpolation.
vii. 7. Transition into the oratio directa.
vii. 8. eyevvri(T€V—change of subject.
vii. 10. Karea-Ttja-ev—change of subject.
vii. 8—16 (inch) is ascribed by Weiss to the editor.
He appeals to the superfluous and unsuitable character
of the details given here (compare, however, verse 17),
as well as to the harsh changes of subject and to what
seems at least to be a discrepancy between verses 5
and 16.
vii. 19. The construction of eKOLKoocrev with tov
TTOieLv is almost intolerably harsh ; from here onward
to verse 28 (incl.) Weiss sees the hand of the editor
but his reasons are weak ; neither is it obvious how,
according to Weiss, Moses is in this case introduced.
He also sees the editor in verses 26, 36, and 37, but
again his reasons are weak.
vii. 21. €KTe6evT09 avrov aveiXaro avTov—incor-
rect construction.
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