The Acts of the Apostles

LANDS, NATIONS, CITIES, AND HOUSES 101
eager joyous rush of the narrative at this point
implies a writer who is personally interested in what
he narrates, and now wishes to pass on to things
qtwrumpars magna fuit.
In Phrygia and " the Galatian region "—here at
least the word y^po. is really highly significant, vide
supra—St. Paul had actually preached the Gospel on
a former occasion. Seeing that according to xvi. 1,
4, 6, first Derbe and Lystra, then « the cities," then
Phrygia, then the VaXaTiKri y^pa are named in order,
and that then we at last are informed that at this
point St. Paul wished to turn his steps towards Asia,
it therefore follows that he travelled from Lystra
to Iconium and Pisidian Antioch, and that after he
had worked in south-eastern Phrygia he left Pisidian
Antioch, travelling northwards (probably north-east-
wards, for a route straight northwards would have
led him into uninhabited regions). Here he worked
in a district where cities were few, among the Galatians,
to whom he afterwards wrote an epistle, and
from Galatia he purposed to pass by way of Sardis to
Smyrna or Ephesus ; but this was forbidden him.
When he came a second time into the Galatian ywpa
this region is mentioned before Phrygia (xviii. 23), it
follows that St. Paul on this occasion journeyed from
Cilicia straight to the north-west, and then turned
from Galatia towards Northern Phrygia. Thence
SieXOccv ra avcorepiKa /mepr] (xix. 1) he arrived at
Ephesus, i.e. he now carried out the plan which he
was prevented from carrying out previously (chap,
xvi.). The " avcorepiKo. jueprj " sell rrj^ 'Ao-Za?, situ-
ated between Phrygia and the Ephesian coastland,