  RE: Antecedent of AUTOIS in Acts 5:13  Carl Conrad wrote:   (I
sort of assumed that "I always prefer the more difficult reading
in exegesis" refers to the text-critical maxim LECTIO  Yes and
no. Yes that is the source of the idea. But no, I am not talking
about textual  problems. By *reading* I simply mean how the text
is understood to hang to together.  What refers to what and so
forth. I am suggesting perhaps the most difficult *reading*,
i.e., the most counter intuitive to the late 20th century mind
is to be preferred. I think  this may relate in some way the
recent discussions of logic on the list.   Or are you extracting
the sense of EKKLHSIA from hAPANTES in the last clause of 5:12?
I think I'd go with APOSTOLWN in 5:12 as an   Precisely, I am
extracting the sense.  I'll take another Martini James, two
olives please.  Is this a new cocktail named after the so-called
STULOS of the Jerusalem church? Or is it an application of a new
principle of punctuation whereby commas are based upon real
verse pause