Acts 17

Acts 17:4

:TEXT: “and not a few of the prominent women.”

p74 S A B E P Psi 33 81 614 945 1241 1739 2495 Byz Lect two lat cop(north)

KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: BNOTES: “and not a few of the wives of prominent [men].”

D three lat vg syr cop(south)

NEBnCOMMENTS: It is possible also to translate the text reading as the reading in the notes is translated, but the reading in the notes cannot be translated as the text reading. Probably copyists chose to make one meaning clear and remove the ambiguity by changing the wording.

Acts 17:26

:TEXT: “he made from one every nation of men”

p74 S A B 33 81 1739 vg cop

ASV RSV NASV NIV(“man”) NEB(“stock”) TEV(“man) RANK: DNOTES: “he made from one blood every nation of men”

D E P 614 945 1241 2495 Byz Lect lat syr

KJV ASVnOTHER: “he made from one mouth every nation of men”

Psi

It is possible that the word “blood” was accidently omitted by a mistake of the eye (both “one” and “blood” end in the same two letters) or that it was deliberately omitted because Genesis 2:7 says that God made man from dust, but since it missing from most Alexandrian manuscripts and some Western, and is the kind of addition that Western copyists often made, it is omitted from the text here.

Acts 17:28

:TEXT: “as even some of plyour poets have said”

S A E P Psi 33vid 945 1241 1739 2495 Byz Lect three lat vg syr cop

KJV ASV RSV NASV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: “as even some among plyou have said”

D two lat

NEBnNOTES: “as even some of our poets have said”

p74 B 614

none

The difference between the text reading and the first reading in the notes is the omission of the word “poets.” The reading “our” arose through a mistake of the ear, for in later Greek “plyour” and “our” were pronounced alike. Although it is possible that the word “poets” was added because Aratus whom Paul quotes was a poet, it is more likely that some copyists did not feel that quoting “poets” was proper, and so they deleted the word.

Acts 17:30

:TEXT: “but now he commands all men everywhere to repent”

p41 p74 Sc D E P Psi 614 945 1241 1739 2495 Byz Lect one lat syr cop(south)

KJV ASV RSV NIV NEB TEV RANK: CNOTES: “but now he tells all men everywhere to repent”

S* B most lat vg cop(north)

ASVn NASV (“declares to”): There is only a two letter difference between the two readings. Perhaps some copyists thought that it was not seemly for God to “command” people to repent.