Acts. Barnabas et Paulus.
Brief Comments on the Latin:
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14:7. Lystra is a town in Lycaonia, in modern-day Turkey.
14:8. To find the verb of which qui is the subject, you have to go to the next verse. The use of quia to introduce indierct discourse is non-classical.
14:10. The antecedent of quod is an implied hoc, "they saw [that] which..." Lycaonice is an adverb: they spoke Lycaonian.
14:11. Barnaban is in the accusative (the -n is a Greek accusative ending). [Note about Greek forms in the Vulgate.]
14:12. The participle-verb construction, adferens volebat, can be translated as verb-verb: "he brought... and wanted..."
14:13. Latin often uses a relative pronoun, hoc, to join together what would be two separate sentences in English: "(and) when they heard this..." Conscissis tunicis is an ablative absolute. You can translate this participle-verb construction as verb-verb: "they tore... and leaped" (the absence of a past active participle in Latin often leads to this kind of construction).
14:14. The interrogative quid here means: why? [for] what [reason]? The participle adnuntiantes takes a complementary infinitive: "urging you to be converted..."
14:15. The verb dimisit here takes an accusative-infinitive construction: "he let all the peoples go..." The use of suas here is non-classical, since it does not agree with subject of the main verb (Deus)
14:16. Laetitia is in the ablative, like cibo.
14:17. The use of the reflexive pronoun sibi here does follow classical usage: it refers to the subject of sedaverunt, Paul and Barnabas.
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