1
At Philippi two wealthy brothers arranged marriage between their sons and daughters.
2
On the wedding day a word came telling the families to wait for Andreas.
3
On the third day Andreas arrived.
4
The families met him wearing festival wreaths and explained the command they had received.
5
Gregory's epitome recasts the issue primarily as marriage among close relatives.
6
An older quotation from the Epistle of Titus suggests the primitive Acts used the episode more radically to commend sexual renunciation itself.
7
Andreas instructed the young men and women toward the ascetic life represented by the original Acts.
8
The young people accepted his teaching.
9
HaSefarim preserves the tension between Gregory's softened retelling and the older ascetic fragment rather than forcing them into one reading. of-marriage form.