The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 57
xiii. 17 (yij AlyvTrrov or AiyvTrTCi)), vii. 29 (ytj
M-aSidjui), xiii. 19 {yrj ^avaav, twice) ; this use is,
however, confined to lands mentioned in the Old
St. Luke
Testament, and is derived from the LXX ;
himself never uses this form of expression. In the we-
sections (xxvil. 39, 43, 44) yri is the dry land (so
also in iv. 24; xiv. 15, where it occurs together with
Sa\aa-(Ta).
^(cpa occurs only once in the plural (viii. 1) and
there is used like "agri" to signify villages. The
Christian Hellenists driven by persecution from Jerusalem
are scattered over the villages of Judaea and
Samaria; and so we read (viii. 25) TroXXa? re KcojuLag
Twv ^ajULapeiTcov evtjyyeKlXovrO' Apart from this
passage the extension of the movement over a country
(the villages) appears to be distinctly mentioned only
once again. In xiii. 49 we read that the word of the
Lord spread abroad from Antioch in Pisidia ^l oXfjg Ttj^
vwpag. But (vide infra) it is possible that here yoiypa
= " regio " in the official sense. In the sense of an
undefined land as distinguished from the sea it is found
in XXVii. 27. In the sense of a definite land it is com-
bined in X. 39 with rwv ^lovSalcov, in xxvi. 20 with
Trjg ^lovSalag, in xvi. 6 and xviii. 23 with TaXariKJ] ;
in xii. 20 it signifies the region of Tyre and Sidon.
It does not occur in other passages of the book.
Seeing that the word is so rarely used in the book,
though so many lands are mentioned therein, the
question must be asked whether in aU these passages
(with the exception of xii. 20) ^^ X^P^ "^^ purposely
used to indicate that the whole country-side is meant.
In chapter x. 39 we read : ifieig juLaprvpes iravTODv