The Acts of the Apostles

CHRONOLOGICAL DATA 23
viii. 11. LKavu) XjO^Vo) {i.e. probably for many years)
had Simon Magus practised his sorceries in Samaria.
ix. 19. St. Paul, after his conversion, continued
with the brethren of Damascus ^jmepa^ rivd^, and
began at once his active ministry.-^
ix. 23. cog 67r\r]povvTO ^fxepai LKavat (it may have
been years)—the Jews of Damascus prepared a plot
against St. Paul.
ix. 37. €u ratg rjiuepaig eKelvaig {i.e. when St. Peter
was staying in Lydda)—it happened that the disciple
Tabitha died in Joppa.
ix. 43. St. Peter abode in Joppa with a tanner
named Simon, ^/mepag LKavdg (as in viii. 11 and ix. 23
it may have been for years).
X. 48. St. Peter accepted an invitation to stay in
CsL'sarea, rjixepag Tivdg {i.e. a few days, vide ix. 19).
xi. 27. €v ravraig raig rjjuiepaig, namely, at the time
of the foundation of the Church of Antioch, or more
exactly, at the time when St. Barnabas and St. Paul
were working there.^
xii. 1. KaT €K€ivov Se tov Kaipov—namely, at the
time when what had been narrated in chap. xi. took
place—Herod turned against the Church.^
^ As it is said in ix. 23 that his stay in Damascus lasted rj/xipas
iKavds, the above passage must be paraphrased as fohows :
" After
a few days, which he spent in the company of the disciples in
Damascus, he began at once to preach as a missionary."
2 'Ev Tai>rais rots i]fj.€paii cannot possibly refer to verse 26*, but
only to 2G".
3 The passage introduced by these words is not an interpolation
without chronological reference, as Weiss thinks ; for the expression
KaT eKdvov tov Kaipbv need not refer to the time of the foundation
of the Antiochean Church in the strictest sense of the word,
but refers to the whole early history of that community so far as it
had been narrated.