The Acts of the Apostles

APPENDIX III 39
SlSdcTKCOV TO. ircpl ToO KVplOU 'It](TOU ^OKTTOV
juL€Ta Trdartjg 7rappr](Tiag dKoyXvTco^.
We must first ascertain that the construction of this
passage fully coincides with that of other statements
made by the author concerning the character and
duration of the ministry of the Apostle in the great
centres of his missionary field (vide mpra). Concern-
ing Antioch we read that St. Paul was there eviavrov
oXov—KOi SiSd^ai 6-^Xop iKavov (xi. 26), of Corinth,
that he stayed there ei/ fa fro i'/c a f jurji/a^ e^ SiSd(TKoov
€1/ avTots Tov \6yQv Tov 0eoy (xviii. 11); of Ephesus
that he first worked in the synagogue eiri ixriva^ rpeh
SiaXeyofxevo? Kal ireldoov tol irepi r^y ^aariXeia^
TOV Oeov (xix. 8), then for two years more in the school
of Tyrannus KaO' rj/mepai/ SiaXeyojuLevo^, ware Trdvrag
Tovg KaroiKovvTa^ rrjv ^A.(Tiav aKova-ai tov Xoyov tov
Kvplov (xix. 10) ; lastly of Caesarea, that he was there
a Si€Tia, and that Felix commanded the centurion
juirjSepa KCoXveiv Tcov iSlcov avTOv virrjpeT€Lv avT(p (xxiv.
27, 23). Comparison, therefore, teaches us that the
author when he wrote of Rome would necessarily have
been most concerned to record the duration and the
character of St. Paul's ministry in that city. We
learn, moreover, that what seems at first sight so
strange—namely, the scantiness of the information
concerning the ministry of St. Paul in Rome—is not
out of character with the whole plan of the book
for St. Luke's procedure is not otherwise in his treatment
of the ministry of St. Paul in Antioch, Corinth,
and Caesarea ; he has contented himself with a few
quite general touches. Only in the case of Ephesus
has he imparted some detailed information. The
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