The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 59
twice in the we-sections (xvi. 14 ; XXVii. 8 : TroXew?
OvarelpooVf TroXig Aacraia) and once in the rest of the
book (xi. 5 : iv iroXei 'Iotttt^) ; in all other numerous
instances where a town is mentioned the name stands
without TToXf?. The phrase : ^ 'E^eo-Zwj/ ttoXi? (xix.
35)^ occurs once in a speech to the Ephesians in
order to flatter their pride. Samaria is introduced
in viii. 5 without closer definition as " ^ iroXig r??
Sayuap/a?"—scarcely because the author assumed
that his readers knew what city was meant, but
because he wanted to let us know that the Gospel,
when it was carried from Judaea to Samaria, made
its entrance at once into the capital city of that
country.
Sometimes the author adds the name of the pro-
vince to the name of the city. His reasons for this
procedure are not always the same, and are not always
clearly discernible ;
as a rule, however, we may assume
that it is because he wishes to draw attention to the
fact that the Gospel had now made its way into the
particular province mentioned— youthful missionary
religions count their conquests by provinces !— perhaps
also because he wishes to determine more accu-
rately the geographical situation of the city and to
1 Like a true Hellene St. Luke likes to describe persons by the
cities from which they sprang. He speaks not only of Romans and
Athenians (xvii. 21, 22), but he also writes Na^wpaios (often), Tvpios
(xii. 20), SiScinoj (xii. 20), Tapa^vs (ix. 11; xxi. 39), '
Aptioxcvs {vi. 5)
'AXe^apdpevs (vi. 9 ; xviii. 24), Aep^aios (xx. 4), QeaaaXoviKeOs (xx. 4;
xxvii. 2), Bepoiaios (xx. 4), Kopivdios (xviii. 8), 'E^ecrioj (xix. 28, 34,
35 ; xxi. 29), AvSia 7r6Xea>y Qvarelpuv (xvi. 14). Cf. also the terms
Uoptik6s (xviii. 2), 'A(Tiav6$ (xx. 4), Kvirpios (iv. 36 ; xi. 20 ; xxi. 16),
Kvprjfa'ios (vi. 9; xi. 20 ; xiiL 1), Aldio\p (viii. 27), Ma/ceSciy (xvi. 9;
xix. 29 ; xxvii. 2), A^7i;7rTioj (xxi. 38), 'Latiapdrtfi [h\\U -5), &C.
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