Acts 9:12

Acts 9:12

Because the verse is absent from the Old Latin h, Blass omitted it from his Roman edition of Acts and Hilgenfeld bracketed it. There is, however, as Knowling remarks, ¹⁸¹ no apparent reason why it should have been inserted if not genuine, as it is not influenced by any parallel passage. After a lengthy discussion of problems, some real, some imaginary, which have been found in the verse, Corssen ¹⁸² contents himself with the deletion of evn o`ra,mati and ~Anani,an ovno,mati. Clark, without manuscript support, prefers to place ver. Acts 9:12 immediately after ver. Acts 9:9. Although he professes to find “admirable sense” in this sequence, ¹⁸³ the rearrangement leaves the introduction of ver. Acts 9:10 (Clark’s ver. 11) extremely inept, for now Ananias is introduced as though he were unknown (h=n de, tij maqhth.j evn Damaskw|/ ovno,mati ~Anani,aj) despite his having been mentioned by name in the immediately preceding sentence.

It seems best to regard the absence of the verse from it^h as due to an accident in transcription, occasioned perhaps by the presence of the name Ananias early in both ver. Acts 9:12 and ver. Acts 9:13.

¹⁸¹ R. J. Knowling, The Expositor’s Greek Testament, vol. II, p. 235.

¹⁸² Peter Corssen, Der Cyprianische Text der Acta apostolorum (Berlin. 1892), pp. 21—23.

¹⁸³ A. C. Clark, The Acts of the Apostles, pp. liii and 345.