Acts 13:18

From Textus Receptus

Acts 13:18 And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

(King James Version, Pure Cambridge Edition 1900)

Acts 13:18 Now for a time of about forty years He endured with their ways in the wilderness.

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Commentary

Acts 13:18 in the 1611 King James Version

The 1611 says:

and about the time of forty years † suffered he their manners in the wilderness.....

The marginal note says:

||† Gr. ετροποφοπησεν perhaps for ετροφοφορησεν as a nurse beareth or feedeth her childe, Deut. 1:31. 2 macc 7.27, according to the Sept. and S. Chrysost.

In an article by Timothy Berg The 5 Types Of Marginal Notes In The 1611 KJV, he lists several marginal notes that he said "each of these and many other cases, the note signals not just an alternate translation that might be equally probable, but a more literal translation that they have opted against for various reasons." In the previous context, (see also 1 Peter 3:6 Berg has made allusions that the translators didn't follow a more "literal reading" because of bias and also unknown reasons. Berg says of this verse:

Interestingly, this note is presented with the cross symbol and format as explained above, which might at first appear to be an alternate translation, though it is clearly a textual note.

In another earlier article of Berg's called A Neglected Exposition of The Translators to the Readers Berg writes:

Acts 13:18 – Did God suffer their manners, or bear and feed them?

The text of the KJV 1611 reads “and about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.” The Marginal note once again introduces some doubt by the KJV translators, noting, “Gr. ετροποφοπησεν perhaps for ετροφοφορησεν as a nurse beareth or feedeth her childe, Deut. 1:31. 2 macc 7.27, according to the Sept. and S. Chrysost.” Here we have a very interesting case concerning Paul’s reference to the OT as recorded by Luke. Paul tells part of Israel’s story, and mentions the part of the story that is recorded in Deut. 1:31. The Hebrew text there is that God "ישָׂא" with them in the wilderness. But when that Hebrew word got translated into the Greek of the Septuagint, it could be translated in two different ways, one meaning “to carry” or “bear up,” and the other meaning, “to bear with/ put up with” or “suffer.” There is only 1 letter difference between the two different words in Greek. Interestingly, there are today LXX manuscripts which contain both readings. However, the LXX available to the KJV translators apparently had only the “bear up/carry” reading, while the Greek texts before them had the “bear with/suffer” reading.79 They weren’t sure whether to follow the Greek texts of Acts they had, or to correct them on the basis of the LXX translation of the Deuteronomy passage which they had. (They also note the same translation difficulty with the Apocrypha of 2 Maccabess 7:27.) In this case, an LXX reading of the OT passage that was different than the text of Acts as they had it made them less than certain about which text Luke had actually quoted. So, they noted their uncertainty in the margin. In this case, it would appear from their note that they didn’t even realize that there were different Greek manuscripts that had the same variant. Yet scribes had often encountered the same question as the copied the text of Acts, and so today, we have manuscripts of Acts that contain both readings, as scribes corrected the text to one reading or the other, and its something of a 50/50 shot to know which one Luke wrote.80 Which one did Luke write? Which was Original? In this case, the LXX made the KJV translators admit they were not sure.

76 Scrivener, pg. 58.

77 Comfort, Textual Commentary, pg 316.

78 Comfort, textual commentary, pg 316-317.

79 See Stephanus, Erasmus, and Scrivener.

The translators were merely pointing out the ετροποφοπησεν and ετροφοφορησεν were similar and that the readings could be mistaken for each other at times, creating a false definition and a false context. Notice Berg says that "The Marginal note once again introduces some doubt by the KJV translators", as if these are readings they didn't know the correct reading of. He then makes the fantastic claim that "They weren’t sure whether to follow the Greek texts of Acts they had, or to correct them on the basis of the LXX translation of the Deuteronomy passage which they had." Berg creates a conspiracy theory about this and claims "In this case, an LXX reading of the OT passage that was different than the text of Acts as they had it made them less than certain about which text Luke had actually quoted. So, they noted their uncertainty in the margin. In this case, it would appear from their note that they didn’t even realize that there were different Greek manuscripts that had the same variant, and ended by asking "Which one did Luke write? Which was Original? In this case, the LXX made the KJV translators admit they were not sure."

Commentary

Greek

Textus Receptus

1514 (Complutensian Polyglot)

Desiderius Erasmus

1516 (Erasmus 1st Novum Instrumentum omne)
1519 (Erasmus 2nd)
1522 (Erasmus 3rd Novum Testamentum omne)
1527 (Erasmus 4th)
1535 (Erasmus 5th)

Colinæus

1534 (Colinæus)

Stephanus (Robert Estienne)

1546 (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 1st)
1549 (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 2nd)
1550 καὶ ὡς τεσσαρακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροποφόρησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 3rd - Editio Regia)
1551 καὶ ὡς τεσσαρακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροποφόρησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 4th)

Theodore Beza

1565 (Beza 1st)
1565 (Beza Octavo 1st)
1567 (Beza Octavo 2nd)
1580 (Beza Octavo 3rd)
1582 (Beza 2nd)
1589 (Beza 3rd)
1590 (Beza Octavo 4th)
1598 Καὶ ὡς τεσσερακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροφοφόρησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ. (Beza 4th)

See Also Acts 13:18 Beza 1598 (Beza)

1604 (Beza Octavo 5th)

Elzevir

1624 (Elzevir)
1633 (Elzevir)
1641 (Elzevir)

Scholz

1841 (Scholz)

Scrivener

1894 καὶ ὡς τεσσαρακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροποφόρησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ

Other Greek

1857 (Tregelles' Greek New Testament)
(Tischendorf 8th Ed.)
1881 (Westcott & Hort)
(Greek orthodox Church)

Anglo Saxon Translations

1000 (Anglo-Saxon Gospels Manuscript 140, Corpus Christi College by Aelfric)

1200 (Anglo-Saxon Gospels Hatton Manuscript 38, Bodleian Library by unknown author)

English Translations

1380 (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)

1395 (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)

1534 (Tyndale Bible by William Tyndale)

1535 (Coverdale Bible)

1539 (Great Bible First Edition - Miles Coverdale)

1540 (Great Bible Second Edition - Miles Coverdale)

1549 (Matthew's Bible - John Rogers)

1557 (Geneva 1557)

1560 (Geneva Bible) First Edition

1568 (Bishop's Bible First Edition

1582 (Rheims 1582)

1587 (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham

1599 (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham

Acts 13:18 in the 1611 King James Version

1611 (King James Version)

1729 (Mace New Testament)

1745 (Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament)

1762 (King James Version)

1769 (King James Version - Benjamin Blayney)

1770 (Worsley Version by John Worsley)

1790 (Wesley Version by John Wesley)

1795 (A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by Thomas Haweis)

1833 (Webster Version - by Noah Webster)

1835 (Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)

1849 (Etheridge Translation by John Etheridge)

1850 (King James Version by Committee)

1851 (Murdock Translation)

1855 Calvin Bible by the Calvin Translation Society

1858 (The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by Leicester Sawyer)

1865 (The Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson)

1865 (The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1865 by American Bible Union)

1869 (Noyes Translation by George Noyes)

1873 (King James Version) by Frederick Scrivener)

1885 (Revised Version also called English Revised Version - Charles Ellicott editor)

1890 (Darby Version 1890 by John Darby)

1898 (Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young)

1901 (American Standard Version - Philip Schaff)

1902 (The Emphasised Bible Rotherham Version)

1902 (Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by William Godbey)

1904 (The New Testament: Revised and Translated by Adolphus Worrell)

1904 (Twentieth Century New Testament by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs)

1911 (Syrus Scofield)

1912 (Weymouth New Testament)

1918 (The New Testament Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript by Henry Anderson)

1923 (Edgar Goodspeed)

1982 (New King James Version)

1984 (New International Version)

1995 (New American Standard Bible) (©1995)

1999 (American King James Version)AKJV

2005 (Today’s New International Version)

Foreign Language Versions

Arabic

‎ونحو مدة اربعين سنة احتمل عوائدهم في البرية‎. (Arabic Smith & Van Dyke)

Aramaic

(Aramaic Peshitta)

Basque

Eta berroguey vrtheren demboraren inguruän hayén conditioneac suffritu vkan ditu desertuan.

Bulgarian

1940 (Bulgarian Bible)

Chinese

1 又在旷野容忍（或作：抚养）他们，约有四十年。 (Chinese Union Version (Simplified))

1 又在曠野容忍（或作：撫養）他們，約有四十年。 (Chinese Union Version (Traditional))

French

Et il prit soin d'eux dans le desert, comme une mere, environ quarante ans; (French Darby)

1744 Et il les supporta au désert environ quarante ans. (Martin 1744)

1744 (Ostervald 1744)

German

1545 (Luther 1545)

1871 (Elberfelder 1871)

1912 Und vierzig Jahre lang duldete er ihre Weise in der Wüste, (Luther 1912)

Italian

1649 E per lo spazio d’intorno a quarant’anni, comportò i modi loro nel deserto. (Giovanni Diodati Bible 1649)

1927 E per lo spazio di circa quarant’anni, sopportò i loro modi nel deserto. (Riveduta Bible 1927)

Japanese

1928 (Naoji Nagai)

Latin

et per quadraginta annorum tempus mores eorum sustinuit in deserto Latin Vulgate

1527 (Erasmus 1527)

1527 (Erasmus Vulgate 1527)

Pidgin

1996 (Pidgin King Jems)

Romainian

2010 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba româna)

Russian

1876 и около сорока лет времени питал их в пустыне. Russian Synodal Version

Phonetically:

Spanish

(RVG Spanish)

Swedish

1917 Och under en tid av vid pass fyrtio år hade han fördrag med dem i öknen. (Swedish - Svenska 1917)

Tagalog

1905 At nang panahong halos apat na pung taon, ay kaniyang binata ang mga kaugalian nila sa ilang. (Ang Dating Biblia 1905)

Tok Pisin

1996 (Tok Pisin King Jems)

Vietnamese

1934 Ước chừng bốn mươi năm, Ngài chịu tính nết họ trong nơi đồng vắng. (VIET)

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