Acts 4:12

Acts 4:12 kai. ouvk e;stin evn a;llw| ouvdeni. h` swthri,a {A}

The opening clause kai. … swthri,a is lacking in certain Old Latin witnesses (it^h Irenaeus Rebaptism Cyprian Priscillian Augustine). Several witnesses (D it^p) omit h` swthri,a, probably because the word seemed pleonastic before evn w|- dei/ swqh/nai h`ma/j. Kilpatrick (following A. C. Clark) argues that the words kai. evn a;llw| ouvdeni, were original in ver. Acts 4:10, but that after they had been accidentally omitted from that verse they were later inserted erroneously into ver. Acts 4:12, with the addition of ouvk e;stin in order to make the insertion construe; but it construed with so little sense that h` swthri,a was subsequently added, producing the current printed text. ¹¹⁵ Although each of these steps is possible, the combination of all of them appeared to the Committee to be highly improbable.

¹¹⁵ G. D. Kilpatrick, “An Eclectic Study of the Text of Acts,” in Biblical and Patristic Studies in Memory of Robert Pierce Casey, edited by J. Neville Birdsall and Robert W. Thomson (Freiburg, 1963), pp. 68 f.