Philippians and Philemon - MR Vincent - 1906.pdf

Xviii INTRODUCTION
this deity have been discovered, one of which appears to have
been the image worshipped in the sanctuary of the temple ; also
tablets containing lists of offerings for the construction and deco-
ration of the temple, and of the names of the members of the
sacred college. Among these names are some which are familiar
to the readers of the Acts and Pauline epistles ; as Crescens,
Secundus, Trophimus, Pudens, etc. In the lower town is found a
ruin known by the Turks as Derekler or ' the columns,' consisting
of a portion of a wall and four massive columns, and which cannot
be identified. It is supposed to have been a public bath. Lewin
{^Life and Eps. etc., i. 211) says, without any authority for the state-
ment, that this was the forum where the apostles were scourged.
See the Mission Archeologique de Macedoine by Heuzey and Daumet,
one of the most interesting and important of modern contributions to the
study of the history and antiquities of Macedonia. The expedition was
undertaken in 1 861 under the auspices of Napoleon III.
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PAUL IN MACEDONIA
Philip and Alexander, .^milius, Mummius, and Octavianus had
thus prepared the way for Paul. According to the account in
Acts xvi., Paul, at Alexandria Troas, saw in a vision a Macedonian
man who said to him, " Come over to Macedonia and help us."
Professor Ramsay (. Paul, the Traveller and the Roman Citizen,
p. 201) says that Paul did not infer the Macedonian origin of the man
in the dream from his words, but recognised him as a Macedonian by sight;
and since the Macedonians dressed like Greeks, it follows that the man in
the vision was personally known to him. Professor R. also holds with Renan
(5 Paul, ch. v.) that Luke was a Macedonian. I do not know the grounds
of his statement that it has been generally recognised that Luke must have
had some connection with Philippi. In our ignorance of Luke's antecedents
the possibility of his having been a Macedonian cannot be denied.
Paul, therefore, embarked at Troas with Luke, Timothy, and
Silvanus (Acts xv. 49, xvi. i, 3. Comp. Acts xvi. 8, lo), and land-
ing at Neapolis, proceeded over Mt. Pangaeus, about eight miles,
to Philippi, by a branch of the great Via Egnatia.
See Renan's beautiful description of the route (5/. Paul, ch. vi.). Cousinery
( Voyage dans la Macedoine) and Tafel {De Via Militari Romanorwn