The Acts of the Apostles

INACCURACY AND DISCREPANCY 227
of narrative that details of a story are here and there
inserted later or again earlier than their proper place
(compare also St. Luke''s gospel). It is specially
worthy of note that examples are to be found in the
we-sections. We are thereby warned, when we meet
with similar examples in other parts of the book, not
to fly at once to the hypothesis of interpolation and
the like (as critics have very often done). In the
we-sections (xx. 12) ijyayov Se tov TraiSa ^wm-a comes
too late, we hear (xxi. 12, 16) somewhat too late of
the Church in Caesarea, on the contrary Mnason (xxi.
16) is mentioned somewhat too early, xxviii. 1 is not
quite in its correct place before xxviii. 2, audyecrOai
in xxviii. 10 and eig rijv ^Voo/uLrjv in xxviii. 14 come a
little too soon. Nor is it otherwise in the passages of
the second part of the book, which certainly are not
drawn from a written source. We learn a little too
late of St. PauPs Roman citizenship (xvi. 37), that
Jason entertained the Apostles (xvii. 7), that only two
of the seven brethren who were exorcists took part in
the exorcism (xix. 16)—if the passage is to be so
understood— of the plots of the Jews in Asia (xx. 19)
and of the prophecies that had been delivered con-
cerning the coming troubles (xx. 23). The con-
clusion of xxi. 27 (vide xxi. 30) seems to come too
soon. The name Claudius Lysias (xxiii. 26) and the
preaching of St. Paul in Judaea (xxvi. 20) come later
than they ought. So also in B (i. 12) we are told
somewhat late that the scene was the Mount of Olives.
In A the age of the Lame Man (iv. 22), and again
the notice that there were six brethren (xi. 12) are
given rather late in the narrative. In the Antiochean