1st Missionary Trip - Lorin

PRAENOMEN NOMEN GENTILE COGNOMEN SUPERNOMEN
(an individual’s name identifying
the person within the
family — similar to our first
name)
(family name—similar to our
surname)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(additional family name
designating a branch of the
family—used as the ordinary
personal name
Signa
(Nickname)
Hebrew Name
Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus Caligula (“little boots”)
Gaius Octavius Caesar (“Augustus” a title)
Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus
Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus
Nero Claudius Caesar
(Lucius) Sergius Paullus
? ? Paullus Saul
For whatever the reason, we do know that in Luke’s reference to the apostle from Paphos on, he becomes Paul
rather than Saul.
5.0.1.3 Work in Perga, Acts 13:13
Acts 13:13 Then Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. John, however,
left them and returned to Jerusalem;
13 Ἀναχθέντες δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς Πάφου οἱ περὶ Παῦλον ἦλθον εἰς Πέργην τῆς Παμφυλίας· Ἰωάννης δὲ ἀποχωρήσας
ἀπʼ αὐτῶν ὑπέστρεψεν εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα.
Once the ministry on Cyprus was completed
at Paphos, Paul along with Barnabas and
John Mark caught a ship (Ἀναχθέντες
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109 ) from
Paphos to the port city of Perga on the mainland.
Luke’s unusual way to designating the traveling
group, οἱ περὶ Παῦλον, (literally) those around
Paul, could be taken to imply that Paul was not in
the group, but this would be incorrect since the
following narrative makes it clear that Paul was
with the group. 110
The group of missionaries landed at Πέργη, Perga. 111 This wealthy and very Greek oriented town of sevname
would have been: Marcus Antonius Paullus. 252 (2) Alternatively, Paul’s ancestors may have gained their citizenship after being
freed as enslaved prisoners of war (perhaps enslaved during the Roman general Varus’s campaign against Jews in Galilee in 4 B.C. or
even in earlier Roman excursions into Palestine). 253 ”
109Although ἀνάγω has a variety of meanings, one of those is a nautical term meaning “to begin to go by boat” or “to put out to sea.”
Luke especially uses it with a nautical meaning in Acts: 28:11; 13:13; 16:11; 18:21; 27:21; 27:4, 12; 20:3, 13.
110 “Paul and his companions. Lit., ‘those around Paul,’ which might seem to say that Paul himself was not with them; but from what
follows it is clear that that is merely a Lucan literary way of stating that Paul was not traveling alone.” [Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J., The Acts
of the Apostles: A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008), 508.]
111 “Perga was founded by a mixed multitude of Greek immigrants after the Trojan War. Recent excavations have turned up a number
of statue bases of ‘founders’ of the city—some of them the legendary leaders of the original migration (such as Calchas and Mopsus),
but others who are known to have been prominent historical personages (such as M. Plancius Varus and his son, C. Plancius Varus, fl.
second half of 1st century A.D., who were originally Italians) who were designated ‘founders’ as a result of their personal philanthropy
on behalf of the community (Bean 1979: 31–32).
“The Plancius family had great wealth and influence in various parts of Asia Minor and were the leading family in Perga during the
first two centuries A.D. M. Plancius Varus had a political career in Rome under Nero and managed to survive the intrigues of A.D. 69 to
become proconsul of Bithynia under Vespasian. He had served as a Roman senator, and his son was later to achieve the double distinction
of being a successful athlete and also consul during the reign of Hadrian (A.D. 117–38). A descendant of the family was to become a
celebrated philosopher (Varus). But it was his daughter, Plancia Magna, who exercised the greatest influence in her day. Dozens of texts
have been found with her name on them, more than in the case of any other civic personage. She was responsible for the erection of a
magnificent array of statues of the Roman imperial family just inside the S gate, many of which are now in the fine museum in Antalya.
Plancia herself was priestess of Artemis and held the highest civic office of state (demiurgus). Several striking statues of her have also
been uncovered.
“The city of Perga was a very wealthy and beautifully decorated city from Hellenistic times. Its remains today are second only to