The Acts of the Apostles

THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
source we learn that St. Mark was a companion of
St. Paul (xiii. 5) later than we should have expected
again in xiv. 6 ff. Derbe kol jj ireplyuipo^ are mentioned
rather too soon, and the scene of action of xiv. 8 ff.
is only hinted at rather late in the story (xiv. 13).
Lastly, it is not until ix. 11 that we learn that
St. Paul put up at the house of a man named Judas
in Damascus.
Cases of anacoluthon and of change of construction
have also led to the supposition of written sources,
but scarcely ever is such an explanation justifiable,
for they are of frequent occurrence, and are indeed met
with in very many authors. In the we-sections (xxvii.
10) the construction with on passes over into the
Ace. c. Inf. ; in the passages of the second part of the
book, which are certainly not drawn from a written
source, we find cases of transition into oratio directa
in xvii. 3 ; xxiii. 22 ; xxiii. 24 (transition into oratio
indirectd), and an instance of harsh anacoluthon in
xxiv. 5. In B (i. 4) the relative construction changes
into a principal sentence, and (i. 4*^) the oratio ohliqua
into oratio directa. In A we find in (iv. 6) an instance
of harsh anacoluthon, so also in viii. 7. In the Anti-
ochean source we find transition into oraiio directa in
vii. 7, also in xiv. 22^ and in xv. 23 an instance of
anacoluthon {ypa>\favT€^).^ In very many passages we
find that by omitting one or several verses a better
connection is gained. But this is not surprising
^ The Gen. Abs. is incorrect both in vii. 21 (Antiochean source)
and in xxL 34.—M^i/ without Zi (or 5i in isolation) is found, if I
am right, only in the second part of the book and in the we-sections
{vide xxvii. 21 and xvii. 18 ; xxiii. 22 ; xxv. 4 ; xxvi. 4 ; xxviii. 22),
but this is unimportant.
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