The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 65
of race, not in the sense of nationality but of descent
(iv. 6 ; vii. 13 ; xiii. 26 ; xvii. 28, 29).
II.
—
Terms of more Special Significance,
The list of nations in chapters ii. 5, 9-11 and
in vi. 9.
^crav Se ev [ef?] 'lepoucraXrjiuL KaTOiKovvreg ^lovSaioi,
avSpe^ eOXa/3e?9 airo Trai/ro? eOvovg twv vtto tov ovpavov
. . . WapQoi Kcu M^^ot Koi A^lXajULLTaL kol ol Karoi-
KOVVTeg rrjv iS/Lea-OTroTa/uLiav \_^lovSaLav ? 'A^pjuLevlav ?
ILvpiav ? 'IvSlav ?] re koi J^aTnraSoKtap^ TIovtov koi
Trjv 'A^alaVj ^pvyiav re koi TlajiKpvXlaVf AHyvirrou koi
TO. fJiepr] Tiji Ai/3J//9 rrjg Kara }^vp7]vr]i/j koi ol e-TriSrjjuL-
ovvre^ 'PcojuLaioij 'lovSalol re koi irpocrrfKvTOL [K^o^/re? kcu
"Apa^e^].
After the first three national names St. Luke continues
with ol KUTOiKovvreg, because there was no
national name for Mesopotamia ; but this has led
to a formal discrepancy with the preceding clause.
St. Luke is speaking simply of such persons as were
resident in Jerusalem (not of pilgrims for the feast),
yet he describes them most awkwardly as KaroiKOvureq
rrjv Mea-OTTOTajuLiai/ k.t.X. after their former place of
abode. In its significance, therefore, the second kutol-
KOVVT69 must be regarded as pluperfect. Moreover,
seeing that from Pontus onwards the author gives the
names in pairs and that ^louSalav—though the reading
of all MSS.—is senseless, while 'Ap/uLcvlav (TertuUian,
and once in Augustine), as well as ^vplav (Hieron.),
are evidently only attempts to clear away a difiiculty