The Acts of the Apostles

176 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
Paul does not mention him in any of his epistles
and then pass over from the " men of Cyprus and
Cyrene " to St. Barnabas and St. Paul, gradually giving
to the latter ever greater prominence (up to xiii. 7
St. Barnabas stands in the foreground—xiii. 9 St.
Paul's change of name—xiii. 13 ol irepi TiavXov—in
xiii. 43, 46, 50 ; xv. 2 [his], 22, 35 St. Paul stands
first—xiv. 20 i^rjXOev crvv rep ^apva^a—but in xiv.
12; xiv. 14; xv. 12, 25, St. Barnabas still stands
first). This gradually increasing accentuation of the
importance of St. Paul, and the introduction of the
name " Paul " for " Saul,"' are certainly due to St.
Luke, and were foreign to the source, as may be seen
even from xiv. 14 and xv. 12, 25. Hence we may
not describe the Antiochean tradition as Pauline
tradition, but must characterise it by the three names
—Stephen—Barnabas— Saul. In it St. Barnabas is
regarded as equal to, indeed as superior in importance
to, St. Paul— as with St. Stephen we are told some-
thing of his character and antecedents (vide supra),
nothing of the kind is told us of St. Paul ; again, St.
Barnabas is a prophet, St. Paul only a teacher. This
again shows us that we are here concerned with a
separate tradition which has been touched up by St.
Luke.^ According to this source St. Paul was not
the originator of the mission to the Gentiles ; on the
contrary, the men of Cyprus and Cyrene were first in
—
1 It is even possible that, in the source, St. Stephen and St.
Barnabas were treated as the chief characters, and that Saul played
only a secondary part. In favour of this hypothesis we have xv.
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