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GC: There is a coherent majority attestation with a broad A-related basis for a, and partly incoherent attestation with a narrower A-related strand for b.
TP: Luke transforms the end of a quotation from Am 9:11f by adding a phrase possibly taken from Is 45:21 (Apg 15:18).[1] There is no bearing on meaning whether the participial phrase at the end of 15:17 is attributive (with the article) or predicative. The only argument in favor of b is the difference from the quoted LXX text according to Ziegler’s edition.[2] However, given the coherent majority attestation for a, it is more likely that the article was accidentally omitted by several scribes than that the initial text did not contain it.
[1] Cf. Barrett (728) who thinks that “γνωστὰ ἀπ᾽ αἰῶνος was probably a simple gloss rather than an additional quotation.”
[2] Duodecim Prophetae, ed. J. Ziegler, Septuaginta XIII, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1943, 204f. [•••Neuauflage von Felix Albrecht angekündigt für Aug. 2016] The apparatus does not show a variant for ὁ ποιῶν.
