Acts 15:26

Acts 15:26

At the close of the verse the Western text (D E 614 1799 2412 syr^hmg) adds eivj pa,nta peirasmo,n (“they risked their lives for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ in every trial”). The addition was probably prompted, as Lake and Cadbury remark (ad loc.), by the fact that paradou/nai th.n yuch,n is not usually applied to a man who is still alive. The gloss may be a reminiscence of Acts 20:19 (so B. Weiss) ³⁰⁵ or of Sirach 2.1 e`toi,mason th.n yuch,n sou eivj peirasmo,n (so J. Rendel Harris). ³⁰⁶

³⁰⁵ Der Codex D (Leipzig, 1897), p. 82.

³⁰⁶ Four Lectures on the Western Text of the New Testament (London, 1894), pp. 85 f.