The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 79
The same attitude towards the names is plainly discern-
ible in chapter's i.-vii. of the Acts and in the we-sections.
In the former passage (chapters i.—vii.) the author
has only om:e written 'lepocroXvjuLa (in the introduction
i. 4), where he tells us that our Lord commanded
His disciples not to depart at once from the place
Jerusalem (citto lepocroXvjULCov /jlyj yooplYeaOai) ; as for
the rest of the passage everything in the early history
of the Church is of so lofty a character that he
only speaks of ^lepova-akrjij. (eleven times). In the
we-sections the reason of the variation between the
two forms of the name is quite evident : in XX.
16 ; XXl. 4, 15, 17 'lepocroXvixa is written because the
author is concerned simply with topographical notices
(St. Paul wished to be in Jerusalem for Pentecost
St. Paul ought not to go up to Jerusalem ; we took
our journey up to Jerusalem ; when, however, we
arrived at Jerusalem). But among these verses stands
a saying of the prophet Agabus ; here we read in oratio
directa (XXi. 11); tov avSpa . . . Stjo-ovo-lv ev 'lepoua-aXij/j.
ol ^lovSaioi, and now the bystanders take up
this word' lepova-aXtjjUL (XXi. 12), and also St. Paul says
(XXi. 13) : airoQavelv el