The Acts of the Apostles

76 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
says (Rom. xv. 19): SxTTe jme airo^lepovcrcCKruJ. , , •
TreirXrjpwKevai to cvayyeXiov tov XpicTTOv.
The centre of Judaea and of Christendom is Jerusalem.
Here the name given to the city by St. Luke
is of itself a matter of the deepest interest.^ As is
well known St. Mark uses without exception the name
' lepoa-oXv/uia, so also St. Matthew (for the single pas-
sage where 'lepova-aXTJ/uL occurs [xxiii. 37] belongs to a
quotation),^ and St. John. On the other hand, St.
Paul and St. Luke use sometimes 'lepoa-oXvixa and
sometimes *l€pova-d\}ijuL^—again a proof of their
mutual relationship. In St. Paul's case we can with-
out difficulty discern the rule which guides his use of
the respective names : where Jerusalem has religious
significance (Gal. iv. 25, 26), and in passages of special
solemnity where the Apostle thinks of the " saints
in Jerusalem (Rom. xv. 25, 26, 31 ; here Jerusalem is
everywhere combined with ot dyioi) he writes *lepov-
a-aXijjui, i.e. he chooses the Hebrew name, elsewhere he
writes lepooroXujULa (Gal. i. 17 : avrjXOov eig 'leyooor.,
likewise i. 18 ; ii. 1 ave/Brjv ek *Iepo(r.). Two instances
only are left which do not seem to conform to the rule.
In Rom. XV. 19 we read : toa-re jme airo 'lepovcraXrju,
KOI kvkXu) jULc-^i TOV ^IXXvpiKOu TTCTrXrjpcoKepai TO evayye-
XioVf and 1 Cor. xvi. 3 : ovg dv SoKijuidcrrjTe St eiricrTO'
Xuiv TOVTOu^ 7r/yu\f/-a) cnrei'eyKeiv Ttjv "XCLpiv vjulcov [the
alms that had been collected] elg 'lepovcraXijjuL. But
in the second instance St. Paul is thinking of the
* Cf. Eamsay in The Expositor, 1907, p. 110/.
* Vide my work " The Sayings of Jesus," Williams & Norgate,
1908, pp. 29, 143, 103/., 168 f.
» In the Apocalypse only 'lepovadXTjfx is found (iii. 12 ; xxi. 2, 10).
So also in Hebrews (zii. 22).
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