The Acts of the Apostles

80 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
in chapters viii.-xxviii. (omitting the we-sections)
appears to present greater difficulty. We are con-
cerned with seventeen passages in which 'lepoa-oXvjuia
is read. Obviously 'lepoa-oXvjuLa is more frequently
used since the narrative is no longer concerned with
the earliest history of the Church of Jerusalem, and
at the end, although the scene of action again returns
to the soil of Palestine,' le^ofcraX/i/x is yet less frequently
used than ^lepoa-oXvjuLa, But even in chapters xxii.—
xxviii. where the former occurs only six times, while
the latter occurs ten times, it is still possible to
observe a peculiar and quite invariable rule. In xxii.
5, 17, 18; xxiii. 11; xxv. 3 we read'IepovcraXrjjuL,
Jbr here Jerusalem is spoken of in Jerusalem itself; in
xxv. 1, 7, 9, 15, 20, 24^ ; xxvi. 4, 10, 20 ; xxviii. 17
we read *l€poa-6\viuLa,Jbr Jerusalem is here spoken of
in Coesarea and (xxviii. 17) in Rome. TYiq place where
the scene is located, not the speaker, makes the dijBfer-
ence : St. Paul speaks in Jerusalem of Jerusalem, in
Csesarea and Rome of Hierosolyma.^ There accordingly
remain for consideration only seven more
passages where ^lepocroXvfxa is found, namely viii. 1,
14, 25 ; xi. 27 ; xiii. 13 ; xvi. 4, and xix. 21 (lepova-a'
X>}/x occurs seventeen times in these chapters, namely
viii. 26, 27; ix. 2, 13, 21, 26, 28; x. 39; xi. 2, 22;
xii. 25; xiii. 27, 31; xv. 2, 4; xx. 22; xxi. 31).
Evidently 'lepova-akruj. is still the rule in this part
of the Acts. The rule is broken where the scene
^ In chapters xxii.-xxviii. (in sixteen instances) there is only one
exception, namely xxiv. 11 ;
here one would expect " Hierosolyma,"
yet we read "Jerusalem." But this exception proves the rule:
St. Paul speaks of rrpoaKwdv in Jerusalem ; this suggested the use
of the sacred form (c/. viii. 27 : irpocrKvy^atop els Icpouo-.).