The Acts of the Apostles

60 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
avoid by this means any confusion with another city
of the same name. St. Luke writes :
Tlepyt] T^9 UajuLCpvXia^ (xiii. 13).
—
'Avri6-)(€ia Trj? Hia-iSla^ (xiii. 14).^
Ava-rpa Koi Aip^rj, iroXeig rtjg AvKaoviag (xiv. 6).
^iXiTTTTOi, rjTi^ ea-Tiv irpwTfj TfJ9 lULepiSos Ma/ce^o-
vlag TToXi? (XVi. 12).
H^apcrevg r^? KtXf/c/a? (xxi. 39).
Ta^cro? Tfjg KtXf/c/a? (xxii. 3).
Mvppa T^9 AvKias (xxvii. 5).
It is most extraordinary that the epithet " of
CiHcia " is twice added to the large and well-known
city of Tarsus. One is almost tempted to recollect
that there was another Tarsus in Bithynia, and that
St. Luke, according to the very ancient preface to his
gospel, is reported to have died in Bithynia. It is
better to remember that it belonged to the style of
the registers—a style that would naturally be adopted
by a man giving formal account of himself—to give
the name of the province, however well known the city
might be.
St. Luke exhibits great acuteness and delicacy of
perception when in xxi. 39 he makes St. Paul add to
Taparevs the words " ovk olo-^julov iroXecog ttoX/tj;? " ^ in
order that by this reference to Eurip. Ion. 8 (ovk
acrr]iuL09 'lEiXXiji/cov ttoXz?) he might show himself, in
the face of the Chiliarch's mistake, to be a man of
1 E^j 'AvTioxeta-v tt,v lUaUav has almost unanimous attestation
but JlLCihiav cannot be an adjective ; we must therefore probably
read IIt