The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 73
started from Galilee (xiii. 31 : w(p6rj roig crvvava^acnv
avT(p airo rrjg TaXikala^ e/V ^lepouaaXrjjui) and first
spread over the whole of Judaea. Jesus is 6 airo
Nal^apeO,^ and the eleven apostles are addressed
(i. 11) a.s avSpe^ TaXiXaioi ; St. Luke at the same time
knows that the Galilaeans could be distinguished by
their dialect (ii. 7 ov-)(jl iSov aTravreg ovtol ela-iv ol
\a\ovvT€s TaXiXaloi; cf. St. Mark xiv. 67, 70; St.
Matt. xxvi. 71, 73). When intending to give the
boundaries of Christendom in the first years after its
foundation, he says (ix. 31) : ^ eKKXrjo-la kuO' oXrjg r??
'lou^a/a? KOI YaXiXalag koi ^afxaplag. A few times,
when we should have expected Galilee to be men-
tioned with Judaea, it is wanting, possibly because it
is included in Judaea. Galilee plays no part in the
narrative of St. Luke—it is merely a reminiscence
this, however, in all probability answers to actual
—
history. St. Paul never mentions Galilee and the
Galilean Christian communities in his epistles. Jeru-
salem the capital became the exclusive determining
1 Thus only once in the book (x. 38), on the other hand six times
'l77(roCs (Xpto-T^s) 6 Nafwporos (ii. 22 ; iii. 6 ; iv. 10 ; vi. 14 ; xxii. 8 ;
xxvi. 9) ; it is probable in itself—but that single passage is de-
cisive—that 6 Nafw/jaioj means one who was a native of Nazareth.
It is noteworthy that St. Paul never uses the expression, and that
it occurs only in the first half of the Acts, or rather the only two
passages in the second half where it occurs really belong, so far
as their subject is concerned, to the first half. The designation
"Jesus the Nazarene" is thus Palestinian, and is only used by
St. Luke in order to give the right colouring to the first half of his
book. His procedure, as is well known, is similar elsewhere. It is
only in the mouth of the Jewish orator Tertullus (xxiv. 5) that the
Christians are disdainfully called i) tCjv l^a^wpaltdv atpeais. A like
feeling is expressed in St. John i. 45 / r 'Irja-ovv rbv airb l^a^apir . . .
Kal tXirev airri^ "Sadapa-^X' iK Nafap^r SvyaraL ti dyadby ehau