The Acts of the Apostles

CHRONOLOGICAL DATA 27
have afforded us more accurate dates. Why he has
not done so we are unable to say. It should, how-
ever, be noticed that in reference to the stay in
Philippi he uses the expression rumepag rtvd?, in
reference to the stay in Caesarea the words rjixepa^
TrXe/off, and again in the we-account (XXVii. 7, 9)
he speaks of iKavcu ^/mepai (Uavov ^(^povov)} If we
find the same distinctions in statements of time also
made outside the we-account, we may assume with a
certain degree of probability that they are not chosen
arbitrarily, but—as is certain in the case of the weaccount—
rest upon more accm^ate information than
is clearly expressed. Accordingly when we are told
(ix. 43) that St. Peter remained in Joppa ^juepa^
iKavdg, but in Caesarea (x. 48) rjimipa^ nvag (in the
former place he had his abode for the time being,
at the latter he was only on a visit), again (ix. 19)
that St. Paul had already begun his missionary
preaching in the synagogues t]/j.€pag rivag after his
conversion, while the whole period of his activity
in Damascus lasted ruuepai iKaval (ix. 23), again that
St. Paul was in Iconium (xiv. 3) Uavov y^povov^ in
Antioch for the second time (xiv. 28) y^povov ovk
oXlyov, in Antioch for the third and fourth times
1 'iKavbi in chronological statements occurs in the New Testament
only in the Lukan writings, namely, twice in the gospel
(viii. 27 ; xx. 9) and seven times in the Acts (including two occur-
rences in the we-sections). Combined with xpovoi. it appears in St.
Luke viii. 27 ; xx. 9 ; with xp