The Acts of the Apostles

90 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
knowledge of the college of prophets and teachers in
Antioch (xiii. 1)
: Barnabas, Simeon, surnamed Niger,
Lucius of Cyrene, Mnason, once an intimate acquaint-
ance of Herod the Tetrarch, and Paul. The great
missionary journey of St. Barnabas and St. Paul he
regards as an undertaking of the Church of Antioch
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TTLCTTem)' That the great controversy between the
primitive community of Jerusalem and St. Paul was
cannot
• a controversy between Jerusalem and Antioch
be suspected from the Epistle to the Galatians ; it is
St. Luke who says this, and even expressly tells us
that it was the Church of Antioch that had the high
courage to take up the matter " officially," and that
sent St. Paul and St. Barnabas with some others as
delegates to Jerusalem (ot aSeXipol era^av ava/Salvav
TLavXov K.T.\.— 01 7rpo7re/uL(p6€VTeg vtto t^? e/CAcX7/cr/a9,
XV. 1 /. 3). In the decree of the Council of Jeru-
salem the city of Antioch therefore is put first, then
follow Syria and Cilicia (xv. 23). The city appears
henceforth as so to say St. PauPs new home, whither
again returns after his so-called second missionary
journey (xviii. 18, 22). Only then does it vanish
from the narrative.
The picture of this Church which one thus gains
from the Acts of the Apostles is a very impressive,
significant, and imposing one ; and yet the Pauline
epistles tell us nothing about it, with the exception of