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Acts 19
acts.19.ac19HoursAddition
ἀπὸ ὥρας πέμπτης ἕως δεκάτης
Does the text specify the daily hours in Tyrannus’s hall?
The time notice is a famous Western expansion absent from the earliest continuous Alexandrian witnesses.
Why this default
The shorter text without specified hours is preserved by the earliest continuous witnesses; the detailed schedule is characteristic of the Western expansion.
Evidence
ExternalThe shorter reading is supported by P38, P74, א, A, B and the broad non-Western tradition. Codex Bezae (D) and several Old Latin witnesses add that Paul taught from the fifth hour to the tenth.
InternalThe precise schedule vividly explains how Paul could use the hall daily, but its explanatory usefulness and Western localization make expansion more likely than accidental loss from diverse early witnesses.
Project default
WitnessesNo hours specified · P38, P74, א, A, B, broad non-Western traditionWestern addition
WitnessesFrom the fifth hour to the tenth · D, Old Latin witnessesResponsible alternative
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