Identifier: footprintsofapos02luck (find matches)
Title: Footprints of the Apostles, as traced by Saint Luke in the Acts : being sixty portions for private study and instruction in church
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Luckock, Herbert Mortimer, 1833-1909
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Publisher: London : Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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if only becauseafter so many centuries the exact site may be iden-tified where the Apostle embarked. The massivestones of the two ancient piers still remain, andthey preserve in their names ^ the record of theMission. Crossing over to the island of Cyprus,they opened their work at the historic Salamis, butpreached there only to Jews. It was not till theyreached Paphos that they came in contact with theTac. Hist, heathen. There the impure worship of Venus hadClem. Alex, taken its deepest root, and the worst of the human Cohort, adGentes, iv. 1 The geographical order from Antioch of the places visited isas follows ; Seleucia, Cyprus, with the two towns of Salamis andPaphos, Perga, Antioch in Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, Derbe,which was the farthest point. The return journey only variedslightly, taking them to Attalia on the coast, and back to Antiochwithout revisiting Cyprus. 2 They are called after S. Paul and S. Barnabas. Cf. Yates, inMusemn of Class. Antiq., Pocock, Chesney, and others.
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V. I-I2.) S^. Pauls First Mission. 57 passions had been deified ^ by the people. At thistime Paphos was the seat of the heathen Govern-ment, where the Roman deputy or proconsulheld court. The word by which the Evangelist describes hisoffice supplies incidentally important evidence ofhis remarkable accuracy ^ as an historian. Whenthe Emperor Augustus divided the Eoman Provinces cc. 27.into two classes, he kept under his own control allthose where the inhabitants were turbulent andrebellious, or wheresoever the presence of Romanlegions seemed desirable, and his viceroy receivedthe title of propraetor; the more peaceful countrieshe handed over to the Senate, whose delegate or deputy was called a proconsul. Now, at theoriginal division Cyprus was retained as an imperialprovince, and is noticed as such by ancient his-torians. S. Luke, however, indicates that it was asenatorial one, for he speaks of Sergius Paulus bythe senatorial title; and he was strictly accurate,for an exchange was made

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