The Acts of the Apostles

50 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
VTTO 6\ov Tov eOpovg Tcov 'lovSaiwp, St. Paul speaks
(xxiv. 17; xxvi. 4; xxviii. 19) of the Jewish nation
as eOpoi /JLov, and the Jewish orator TertuUus (xxiv. 3)
as well as St. Paul (xxiv. 10) call the Jewish nation
TO eOvog TOVTO. But in all these six instances it is
to be noticed that we are dealing with discourses, or
rather with the reports of discourses, in which the
official terminology, such as was customary before
a Gentile tribunal, would naturally be used. These
passages only show how carefully St. Luke handled
matters of style.
No difference can be distinguished between diff'erent
parts of the book in the use of this word.
Aaos (about forty-eigrht times, includingr twentyfour
times in the first seven chapters).
*0 \a6^ is, as a rule, the designation for the Jewish
nation in the religious or political sense (cf. especially
xxi. 28 : ovT6«i ccttiv 6 avOpcoiro^ 6 Kara tov Xaou k.
TOV vojuLOv K. TOV TOTTOV TOVTOV SiSd(TKcov, xxviii. 17)
further for the community of the Jews at a definite
place (e.g. Jerusalem). Often—but only in discourse
of an exalted character—it is combined with the
epithet 'la-pariK (iv. 10; iv. 27 [here \ao\ 'laparik
after the LXX] ; xiii. 17, 24) ; only once (xii. 11) with
Tcov 'lovSaicov. Not infrequently it partakes of the
meaning of our phrase " all the people " (in a city,
cf. xxi. 36 : TO TrXrjOoi tov Xaov) ; or of the people in
distinction from their leaders (e.g. iv. 17, 21 ; v. 13)
or of a collection of people (e.g. v. 37). Only in a
quotation from the Old Testament Xaoi = eOvtj (iv.
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