18 GIANCARLO BIGUZZI sevenths, the reader cannot avoid asking how, and where, the other ten apostles, the other five of Jerusalem, the other three of Antioch and the other five of Corinth, all gave their testimony. After all, in the same way Peter’s testimony at Pentecost prolep- tically reached the representatives of nations (Parthians, Medes, Elamites) and regions (Mesopotamia, Lybia, Arabia) who do not appear any more in the book. It is not by means of the book of Luke, but in the reader’s mind, that the full picture of the evangel- ical announcement has to be completed with reference to the spatial program of Acts 1,8: “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem ( . . . ) to the ends of the earth”. In this case the reader becomes narrator, together with Luke. He has to supply the remaining ten twelfths of the oıkoymenh ß ¥ either already, or still to be evangelized. The testimony of Peter and John was obviously prolonged not only by Stephen and Philip, nor did Luke include everything about Peter and John that could have been narrated. The same should be said about the pairs of witnesses of Antioch and Corinth, and thus Luke does not even cover entirely the two twelfths of the journey of the Gospel through the oıkoymenh. As the time, so the space in the narration ß ¥ of Acts remains open in the incomplete account, in what is left unsaid. Finally it is to be added the literary significance of each “not said ”. 3. “ Even silence is word” D. Marguerat cites very evocative texts concerning the under- standing of the “not said” in antiquity. A reference to three will suffice : one from Marcus Fabius Quintilian, one from Flavius Philostratus, and one, referring particularly to Acts, from John Chrysostom 33. Quintilian speaks with praise of the painter Timanthes of Cythnos (fifth century B.C.) who, “in the sacrifice of Iphigenia, [ . . . ] painted a sad Calchas, a sadder Ulysses and gave to Mene- laus the maximum affliction that can be rendered by art. Having MARGUERAT, La première histoire du christianisme, 313-316. 33