16:1
Τοῦτον δὲ τὸν Μάρκον πρῶτόν φασιν ἐπὶ τῆς Αἰγύπτου στειλάμενον τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ὃ δή καὶ συνεγράψατο κηρῦξαι, ἐκκλησίας τε πρῶτον ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς Αλεξανδρείας συστήσασθαι.
And they say that this Mark was the first to be sent to Egypt, and there to proclaim the Gospel which he had also composed, and first to establish churches in Alexandria itself.
據說這馬可是頭一個被差往埃及的，在那裡傳揚他所寫成的福音，又頭一個在亞歷山大城建立眾教會。
16:2
τοσαύτη δ᾿ ἄρα τῶν αὐτόθι πεπιστευκότων πληθὺς ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν ἐκ πρώτης ἐπιβολῆς συνέστη, δι᾿ ἀσκήσεως φιλοσοφωτάτης τε καὶ σφοδροτάτης, ὡς καὶ γραφῆς αὐτῶν ἀξιῶσαι τὰς διατριβὰς καὶ τὰς συνηλύσεις, τά τε συμπόσια καὶ τὴν ἄλλην πᾶσαν τοῦ βίου ἀγωγὴν τὸν Φίλωνα.
And so great a multitude of believers, of both men and women, was gathered together there from the very first onset, by a most philosophic and most intense discipline, that Philo deemed even their occupations and their assemblies, their banquets and all the rest of their manner of life, worthy of being recorded in writing.
在那裡，一從起初，便藉著極富哲思、極為熱切的操練，聚集了如此眾多信主的人，男女都有，以致斐羅竟認為連他們的日常作息、聚集、筵席，並其餘一切生活的方式，都值得筆之於書。