The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 81
of action tends towards Samaria or is situated there
(viii. 1, 14, 25) ; again when the narrator takes his
stand in Antioch (xi. 27), in Perga (xiii. 13), in
Lycaonia (xvi. 4), and in Ephesus (xix. 21); but
seeing that in these sections St. Luke under the same
conditions also speaks of ^lepovcroXijjm, no fixed rule
can be here established. We must confess that the
variation in chapters viii.—xxi.—omitting the wesections—is
not to be explained, i.e. that St. Luke
here (though he prefers ^lepovcraKrjix) keeps to no
rule; but in chapters i.-vii., in the we-sections, and
in xxii.—xxviii. his rule can be clearly discerned. And
yet the number of instances (where 'lepoaoXvfjLa is
used) where the rule is not clear is not more than
seven.
In regard to the knowledge of Jerusalem and
Judaea the passages wherein the author betrays a
certain knowledge of his own are no less numerous in
the Acts than in his gospel. The gospel contains an
important body of traditions connected with Jerusalem
and Judsea, and peculiar to St. Luke, which it is
probable that the author acquired on the spot. One
does not write in a gospel passages like : KWfjLri uire-
')(ou(ra a-TaSlou^ e^ijKOvra airo 'lepoucraXrjiuL, fj oi/ojua
'EjUL/uLaovg unless one has been oneself on the spot.
But we also read in the Acts (i. 12) : rare virea-rpe-
y^av
€/'? 'JepovcraXrjjUL airo opou^ tov KoXovfiepov eXaicovo^f
o ecTTiv eyyv