The Acts of the Apostles

56 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
place (the land) is put in the accusative (but in ii. 5
ix. 22 ; xi. 29 ; xiii. 27 ev is used). It is combined
with Jerusalem ^ in i. 19 ; ii. 5, 14 ; iv. 16 ; xiii. 27 ;
with Damascus in ix. 22 ; xxii. 12, with Lydda in ix.
32, 35, with Ephesus in xix. 17, with Mesopotamia in
ii. 9, with Asia in xix. 10, with Judaea in xi. 29.^
r^ (about thirty-four times), Xwpa (eight times ;
^ -Trepixcopos once), IloXf? (about forty-three times),
Kcofxr] (once), ToVo? (eigrhteen times).
In the great majority of passages yTj is used either
of the land, or of the world, or of the earth in distinc-
tion from the heavens, or in quotations from the Old
Testament. It signifies a particular land in vii. 's
(yfj X.a\Saio)p and ^
ytj avrrj = Palestine), vii. 36, 40
^ While in ii. 14 we read : "Avdpes 'loySatoi Kal ol KaroiKovpTes
UpovaaX-^fi, in ii. 5 it is the Jews of the Diaspora dwelling in
Jerusalem who are termed KaroiKoOm-es. But this is not inadmissible
(as say Blass, who in ii. 5 omits 'louSaToi with Cod. Sin., Neue kircM.
Ztschr. 1892, s. 826 /., and Joh. Weiss, who thinks that a Kai must
be inserted after 'lovdaloi), rather it is demanded by the context.
The author wished to say that the people described some verses
later as Parthians, Medes, &c., who were dwelling at that time at
Jerusalem, were nevertheless Jews, and this is quite correctly ex-
pressed by the words : ^aav 5^ iv 'lepovaaXrifj. KaroiKovvTes 'louSatot,
di'dpes ei^Xa/Sels d7r6 vaprbs ^duovs tQ)v iivb rbv ovpavbv.
2 llapoLKia and wdpoiKos have not yet reached a technical signifi-
cance in the Acts {wapoiKeiv is altogether wanting) and are of very
rare occurrence ; they are only found in the speech of St. Stephen
(vii. 6. 29) and in St. Paul's sermon at Antioch (xiii. 17), thus only
in connection with Old Testament history. This is again a proof
for these words became
of the relatively high antiquity of the Acts ;
technical ecclesiastical terms before the end of the first century,
vide 1 Peter i. 17 ; ii. 11 ; First Epistle of Clement, &c. In ii. 10
we find ol iTridrj.uoOvTes 'Pw/u,atoi and in xvii. 20 ol itribrfnovvTet
j^ivoi.. The word is wantiog elsewhere in the New Testament.
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