The Acts of the Apostles

58 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
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X'^P9^
'lepovcraXriiJLi and in xxvi. 20 : aWa toFj ev AajuLaa-Koii
TTpcoTOV T6 KOI l€po(To\v/uLoi9 €1^ iradav T€ Tr]v ^^wpav
t'^9 ''lovSaia? [Blass unnecessarily proposes 'JouSaloi^'],
KOI T019 eOve(Tiv a-TnjyyeXov. Why does St. Luke not
here simply write tj ^lovSaia, as he so often does?
Evidently he wishes to emphasise the fact that
St. PauPs preaching extended to the country folk of
Judaea. Again it is of additional importance that
the author in the only two places where he mentions
Galatia uses the expression ^ TaXaTiKt] yoopa^ while
elsewhere when speaking of Roman provinces he
always names them Asia, Phrygia, Cilicia, and so
forth. We may assert that he so speaks because
Galatia was poor in cities, and because in official ter-
minology the word " regiones " was also used of this
province. It then further follows that in the much
discussed question where the Galatia of St. Paul is
to be found, we may not claim St. Luke as a witness
in favour of the South-Galatian theory; rather we
must regard him as a witness to the contrary. The
word 7repL-)((jopo9, sometimes found in the synoptic
gospels, occurs only once in the Acts (xiv. 6)
: eig rag
TToXeig T^? AvKaovlag AvcrTpav koi Aep^tjv koi Ttjv
ireplyjMpov.
The use of the word X'^P^ ^^^ ^^^ Acts, though it is
so rare, again shows the consistency of the author.
The word TroXf? is added to the name of a city
1 Some exegetes think that X'^P^t (^vi. 6) is also connected with
^pvyiav, but ^pvylau cannot be adjectival ;
moreover, in xviii. 23 we
read: 5iepx6/Jt.evo5 Kade^ijs ttjv Td\aTiKr]u x^po-v i^°-^ ^pvylav^ here
^pvylay is certainly a substantive.
» Xuplov (field) is found in Acts i. 18, 19 ; iv. 34 ; v. 3, 8 ; xxviii. 7.
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