The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 75
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fxevov Si a ttolvtcov [scil. all the brethren in the cities
of the Philistian coast] KaTeXOeiv kol ttjOO? tov^ ayiov^
Tovg KaroiKOvvra^ Afooa.
Judaea occurs in some passages where we should
expect Jerusalem, and vice versa ; but this is scarcely
due to inaccuracy. That the Christian communities
of Judaea in the first days, and for some considerable
time, were only relatively independent, indeed were
for the most part dependent upon the Church of
Jerusalem, and were, one might say, really identical
with that Church, is a fact which can be deduced
from the Pauline epistles, and which answers to the
natural course of development of all such organisar-
tions : the mother community remained at first " the
Church," the rest were only in dependent filial rela-
tionship to her. St. Luke thus shows himself well-
informed when in the cases in question he writes
Jerusalem for Judaea, and vice versd.
It is, however, believed that it can be proved that
the author has made a mistake in writing Judaea in
xxvi. 20 : St. Paul did not preach, as St. Luke makes
him say, in Judaea, not at least iv iraa-n t^ X^p^ 't*]^
'lovSaiag. It cannot, in fact, be proved that he did
preach in Judaea, and before the time mentioned in
Gal. i. 22 he cannot have done so ; but why may he
not have proclaimed the Gospel in this region on the
occasion of later visits when he was journeying from
Antioch or Caesarea to Jerusalem ? For this ministry
days, not weeks, were quite sufficient, and he himself