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not universal ^ (vide Heinrici on 2 Cor. xi. 22) there
exists here a relationship in the use of language between
the two missionaries.
Three times in the Acts we find the phrase r^
'K^patSi SiaXeKTO) (xxi. 40 ; xxii. 2 ; xxvi. 14 ; no-
where else in the New Testament). This can only
mean Aramaic, which has the same name in St. John,
and is elsewhere described even by born Jews as
" Hebrew " (vide Zahn, Einl,'^ I. s. 5, 18).»
'lovSatoi (about eigrhty-two times).
While 'lovSaioi is found in the three synoptic
gospels only seventeen times (including five times in
St. Luke), it occurs in St. John about seventy-one
times and in the Acts about eighty-two times ! And
it is most noteworthy that in the first eight chapters
of the Acts it is found only thrice ; these chapters
also in other respects partake of the linguistic charac-
teristics of the gospel.
The connections in which the word occurs in the
Acts are very manifold : (1) it stands in combination
with 'EXX;yi/e9, Xao^, and eOvrj (vide supra) ; (2) in com-
bination with proselytes (ii. 10 ; xvii. 17) ; (3) pleon-
astically side by side with crvpaycoyrj ^ and vojulo^ * (xiii.
5 ; [xiii. 42] ; xiv. 1 ; xvii. 1, 10 ; xxv. 8) ; (4) in the
vocative; (5) as an adjective (x. 28; xxii. 3 avrjp
'lovSaio^, xiii. 6 yl/evSoirpocbriTrjg, xvi. 1 ; xxiv. 24
1 Yet Jews avoided the word 'E^paTot ; it is also wanting in the
gospels and the Apocalypse. The name of honour, which was there-
fore preferred, was 'lovdacoi.
^ Ty Idiq, Sia\iKT(f Stands in i. 19 ; ii. 6, 8.
3 Generally, however, it is wanting with this word.
* Yet only in the speech of St. Paul before Festus.