The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 55
'l(rpay]\ (about fifteen times), 'la-parjXlTai (five
times).
Both words belong almost exclusively to the first
half of the book, but in the second half they occur
each once (xxviii. 20 TrJ9 eXTr/^o? r. ^IcrpariX, xxi. 28
avSpeg 'lap. /SorjOetTe). 'la-parjX is used in the same
connections in which it would also stand in the Old
Testament (with ^ao-fXe/a, Tra? oIko9j Xao^, viol) ; it
stands by itself only in v. 31 and xiii. 23 (as so often
in the Pauline epistles). 'la-patjXiTai only occurs
with apSpeg in the vocative; elsewhere in the New
Testament it is found only in St. Paul (thrice) and
once in St. John (i. 48).
PapfiapoL (twice).
The word only occurs in St. Paul (twice) ^ and in
St. Luke of the writers of the New Testament,—and
in contrast to "EXX^/i/e? ; but while St. Paul uses it,
so to say, objectively, as indeed every Jew could
use it, St. Luke in applying it to the inhabitants
of Malta who could not speak Greek (XXViii. 2, 4),*
uses it subjectively, and thereby declares his own
Greek descent.
Ot KaroiKovvTcg = the inhabitants (thirteen
times).
This term for " inhabitants " ^ imitated from the
LXX is found in all parts of the book, usually the
^ The passage 1 Cor. xiv. 11 does not belong here.
2 Mommsen was therefore not justified in thinking this strange.
3 Elsewhere in the New Testament it is found in St. Luke iiii.
4, and often in the Apocalypse.