The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 77
saints in Jerusalem, and has therefore chosen the
more sacred name ; and in the first instance his feeling
of reverent wonder at the grandeur of the work
that had been accomplished through him may have
led him to write the name ^lepova-aXiiim.
In regard to St. Luke''s usage in the Acts the
matter is not quite so simple. First let us give a
statistical summary of the occurrences of the two
names : ^ —
Chaps, i.—vii. — 'lepoa-oXvjjLa once ; 'lepovaaXijiuL
eleven times.
Chaps, viii.-xv.
—
fifteen times.
^lepocroXv/ma five times ; lepovaraXtjim
Chaps, xvi.—xxi. (without thewe-sections)
—
^lepoa-o-
XvjuLa twice ; 'lepovcraX^/uL twice.
The we-sections 'lepoa-oXv/ma four times ; 'lepou-
aaXyjiui three times.
Chaps, xxii.—xxviii
—
(TaXrjfjL six times.
^lepoa-oXvjuia ten times; 'lepou-
Here the first thing to notice is that St. Luke
uses 'lepova-aXTjjuL (thirty- seven times) very much
more frequently than ^lepocroXvima (twenty-two times).
Seeing, however, that in his gospel he has written
^lepoa-oXu/jia only four times (ii. 22 ; xiii. 22 ; xix.
28; xxiii. 7) while he writes 'lepovaaXijin twenty-six
times, and seeing that almost the same ratio obtains
in the first half of the Acts (lepoa-oXv/ma six times,
'lepovaaXriiJi. twenty-six times), it is at once evident
1 The manuscripts of course vary, yet in each particular case
it is possible with the highest degree of probability to ascertain
which form St. Luke chose. We here leave D out of consideration.