Acts 16:9 o[rama

In view of the external attestation (all witnesses except Dgr ite syrp Irenaeus) as well as intrinsic probability (elsewhere in Acts Luke says “saw a vision”), a majority of the Committee had no hesitancy in preferring o[rama. Codex Bezae (supported in part by other Western witnesses) alters the structure of the verse: kai. evn o`ra,mati dia. nukto.j w;fqh tw|/ Pau,lw| w`sei. avnh.r Makedw,n tij e`stw.j kata. pro,swpon auvtou/ parakalw/n kai. le,gwn…(“And in a vision in the night there appeared to Paul, as it were a man of Macedonia, standing before his face, beseeching and saying …”). See also the following comments.

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Old Testament