The Acts of the Apostles

226 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
xix. 33, 34, lastly in the we-sections (xvi. 10) ei?
^aKcSovlav . . . cvayyeXlcracTOai avrov^.
In B (i. 24) a prayer is recorded, and it is left
indefinite which of the company said it.
In A (iv. 1) we read \a\ovvTcop avrutv, when St.
Peter alone had spoken; (iv. 19) St. Peter and St.
John are represented as speaking the words which
follow, while it is clear that only one can have spoken
them ; lastly (iv. 24), the whole community is represented
as saying the long prayer that follows. More-
over, in the Antiochean source (xiv. 14 /. and xiv.
22^), on two occasions words are placed in the mouths
of St. Barnabas and St. Paul speaking together, and
in the passages of the second part, which are certainly
drawn from no written source, we read (xxi. 20)
that St. James and the presbyters of Jerusalem speak
together the passage that follows that verse.
Instances of abrupt change of grammatical sub-
ject, such as might lead us to conjecture the presence
of new sources that have been clumsily inserted into
the narrative, are found in all parts of the book.
In the we-sections (xx. 12) the two words ^yayov
and irapeKXyjOrjarav standing almost side by side have
different subjects. In the passages of the second part,
which are certainly not drawn from any written
source, abrupt change of subject is found in xvi. 28,
29 ; xvii. 8, 9 ; xxiii. 32, 33 ; again in A in iv. 12
iv. 24 ; V. 15 (where we should expect the Apostles in
place of St. Peter) ; viii. 17 ; lastly, in the Antiochean
source in vi. 6 ; vi. 12 [uncertain] ; vii. 4, 8, 10 ; xi.
26^ XV. 31.
It is altogether characteristic of St. Luke's style
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