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Acts 19

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acts.19.ac19HoursAddition

ἀπὸ ὥρας πέμπτης ἕως δεκάτης

TEXThigh confidence

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.

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WitnessesNo hours specified · P38, P74, א, A, B, broad non-Western tradition
Alternative, from the fifth hour to the tenth

Western addition

WitnessesFrom the fifth hour to the tenth · D, Old Latin witnesses
Alternative, from about eleven in the morning until four in the afternoon

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Reference roleStandardized inspectable reference; manuscript forks are independently reopened.

Revision historyNo decision-level revision has been recorded since the provenance ledger was introduced.

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