The Acts of the Apostles

94 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
must nevertheless remain questionable whether St.
Luke here was thinking of a " regio " of which
Antioch, as a Roman colony, was the centre under
the Roman Administration. The general significance
of the word x^/^^ ^^ ^^ least equally possible here.
The account of the mission in Iconium (xiv. 1—6) is
quite formal in its style, and is moreover confused
but from the geographical point of view it is correct
that the entry into a new province should be marked
at Lystra,^ and that in xiv. 19 the two cities of
Antioch and Iconium, in spite of their considerable
distance from one another, should be mentioned in
close combination.
St. Paul betakes himself in flight (xiv. 6) to the
cities of Lycaonia, Lystra (rightly put first),^ and
Derbe and eig t^v wepl^wpov} Ramsay {loc, cit. p.
110^.) again lays gi'eat stress upon the circumstance
that the X'^P^ ^^ ^^^^ mentioned in this passage. I
cannot follow him here. The very expression Trepi-
Xy^po^, which is also used by St. Luke in his gospel
^ It is probably true that at this time Iconium belonged, from an
administrative point of view, to Lycaonia ; but iccording to its
nationality and its earlier history (Xen., Anab. i. 2, 19) it belonged
to Pisidian Phrygia, and even in later times was still regarded as a
Phrygian city (Acta Justini. 3 ;
Firmil. in Cypr. Ep. Ixxv. 7).
2 In xvi. 1 Derbe rightly stands first, because St. Paul is coming
from the south. It is straining at gnats to pay so much attention
to the fact that St. Luke in xiv. 6 first mentions Lystra and Derbe
together, then writes separately about Lystra and then about Derbe,
and to conclude therefore that we have here different sources.
3 The description of the route and of the trials which were
endured receives good attestation from 2 Tim. iii. 10 (so also the
account that Timothy came from Lystra) : irapriKoXovdrjffas . . ,
Toii diioyfioTs, rots iradiifiaaiVj oU. fioi iyevero iv 'Avroxeig., iv 'IkovIi^,
iv AOffrpois,
;