The Acts of the Apostles

148 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
OL lULaOrjToi €7r\r]pouvTO irvevjuLarog ay. (xiii. 52)
concerning St. Paul and the Christians of Pisidian
—
Antioch respectively—are used in the second part
neither of St. Paul nor of any one of the communities
he founded. Moreover, it is easily recognised that
the whole narrative of chaps, xiii.—xiv. (with the
exception perhaps of the scene at Lystra, where the
people are about to sacrifice to the Apostles) is enveloped
in the same atmosphere of generality and
superficiality which is characteristic of most of the
accounts in the first half of the book. It is not that
the author's representation of St. Paul is altogether
different from his representation of the leading figures
of the Primitive Community—in chaps, xiii.-xiv. he
shows that this is not so—but the difference in his
treatment begins just at the point where St. Bar-
nabas and St. Paul separate from one another
because of St. Mark. All that is narrated before
this time is essentially of one type, and all that is
narrated afterwards is of a twofold type (namely,
that of the we-sections and that of the remaining
parts), though this does not affect the unity of style
and vocabulary which obtains throughout the whole
book.
Behind chaps, i.—xv. there accordingly stands an
authority (or several authorities) who, as a " Christian
Scientist" and a "man of the Spirit," was on the
whole congenial to St. Luke, and whose word went
very far with him, though he was considerably more
credulous and uncritical in regard to the miraculous
than St. Luke himself. St. Luke has not dared to
narrate such stories where he himself was an eye-