The Acts of the Apostles

52 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
again xi. 20 (dispersed Christians of Jerusalem preach
to the Hellenes in Antioch), xvi. 1, 3 (the father
of Timothy of Lystra was a Hellene), xvii. 4 (the
(T€/36jixepoi"'EiX\t]v€g in Thessalonica, i.e. the proselytes),
and xxi. 28 (St. Paul is supposed to have introduced
Hellenes into the Temple ^). It cannot therefore be
proved that St. Luke uses the word only in reference
to particular regions and excludes it from others. We
find once 'KWrjviSeg yvvaiKcg (xvii. 12 in Beroea of
Macedonia), once 'KWrjvicrri (xxi. 37 ^), and twice ®
(vi. 1 and ix. 29) 'KXXrjvia-rai, only Jews of the
Diaspora dwelling in Jerusalem and speaking Greek
are so called (antithesis : ol 'K/Spaioi), and are still
so called after they have become Christians. The
word is not found elsewhere in the New Testa-
ment, and is altogether very rare. By the expression
'lovSaioi re Koi. "KWrjveg St. Luke is characterised as
belonging to the Pauline school.
*EPpaioi (once).
St. Luke again coincides with St. Paul in his
sparing use of 'K^paiog and in the way in which he
uses it. St. Paul, as is well known, uses the word
only twice (2 Cor. xi. 22 ; Philipp. iii. 5) to express
the fact that he was fully a Jew by birth (in spite of
his birth in the Diaspora) ; similarly 'K^paioi is used
in vi. 1 in contrast to' J^XXrjvia-raL (vide supra). Every
Hebrew is a Jew, but not every Jew is a Hebrew.
As this distinction between ^lovSaloi and 'K/3paioi was
1 In xviii. 7 the word "EWrjves is of doubtful authority.
2 Elsewhere only in St. John xix. 20.
2 In xi. 20 we must read "EXXrjves {vide aupra).
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