Acts 14:13

The reading of codex Bezae, oi` de. i`erei/j tou/ o;ntoj Dio.j pro. po,lewjh;qelon evpiqu,ein (“But the priests of the local Zeus-before-the-city,” i.e. the Zeus whose temple was in front of the city) is, according to Lake and Cadbury, “either original or represents a correction based on exact knowledge of the probable situation.” 287 Despite Blass’s protestations to the contrary, 288 a college of priests was usually connected with great temples.

Ropes, on the other hand, thinks that “the unhellenic phrase of the B-text tou/ Dio.j tou/ o;ntoj pro. th/j po,lewj may well reflect a Semitic original.” 289


287 The Beginnings of Christianity, vol. IV, p. 165.

288 F Blass, Acta apostolorum…editio philologica, p. 158.

289 The Text of Acts, p. 132.

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