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Acts 8:37 – Sorting out the Evidence
Presented by James Snapp, Jr. (with assistance from members of the NT Textual Criticism group on Facebook), April 2014. And Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answer…
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● The Venerable Bede (active 690-735, wrote in Latin) died before most of those manuscripts were made. In his Commentary on Acts, Bede used a Latin text that did not include verse 37, but as he began his exposition on verse 36-38, he wrote:
Hic alia translatio juxta Graecum exemplar aliquot versus plus habet,
ubi scriptum est, Ecce aqua, quis prohibit me baptizari?
Dixit autem ei Philippus, Si credis ex toto corde tuo, salvus eris.
Respondens autem dixit, Credo in Christum Filium Dei.
Et jussit stare currum, et caetera.45
That is: “At this point, there is another rendering, and the Greek exemplar has some more verses, where it is written, “Behold, water, who will forbid me to be baptized?”: Philip said to him, “If you believe with all your heart, you shall be saved.” He answered and said, “I believe in Christ, the Son of God.” And he commanded the chariot to stop,” and so forth.”
The probability is extremely high that Bede used Codex Laudianus.