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The Acts of the Apostles: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

For anyone interested in the origins of Christianity, Joseph A. Fitzmyer’s The Acts of the Apostles is indispensable. Beginning with the Ascension of Christ into heaven, and ending with Paul proclaiming the kingdom of God from a prison in Rome, this New Testament narrative picks up where the Gospel of Luke left off. The Acts of the Apostles is indeed a journey of nearly epic proportions—and one...

1973), 17–46, esp. 40–42; also Dibelius, Studies, 50–51 n. 76; M. Pohlenz, “Paulus,” 101–4. ‘For we too are his offspring.’ These words are quoted from the third-century astronomical poem of the Stoic, Aratus, who was born in Soli (in Cilicia) ca. 315 B.C.: tou gar kai genos eimen, “of him we too are offspring” (Phaenomena 5). Luke may have changed the Ionic eimen to Attic esmen, but he more likely found it so in a source, because the Attic form was current. It appears also in frg. 4 of the second-century
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