there lies one of the fine points of the prob- lem. After finishing the Church in the Roman Empire before 170, I had no thought of troubling the world with anything further on this subject ; but Dr. Chase's criticism roused me to renewed work, and then came the Auburn invitation. With the Galatian question the date and authorship of Acts are bound up : the more I study, the more clearly I see that it is impossible to reconcile the " North-Galatian theory " with the first-century origin and Lukan authorship of Acts : that theory involves so many incongruities and inconsistencies, as to force a cool intellect to the view that Acts is not a trustworthy contemporary authority. But, on the " South-Galatian theory," the book opens to us a fresh chapter in the history and geography of Asia Minor during the first century.
The form of Index II was suggested, and the details were collected in great part by Rev. F. Warburton Lewis (formerly of Mansfield College), and Indices III and IV were compiled, amid the pressure of his own onerous duties, by Rev. F. Wilfrid Osborn, Vice-Principal of the Episcopal
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College, Edinburgh ; and my warmest gratitude is due for their voluntary and valuable help.
I add notes on some contested points.
i. Reading the Agricola before a college class in 1893-4, I drew a parallel between its method and that of Luke in respect of careful attention to order of events, and inattention to the stating of the lapse of time ; but in each case knowledge acquired from other sources, and attention to the author's order and method, enable us to fix the chronology with great accuracy ; on p. 18 my lecture on this topic is summarized in a sentence.
2. The chronology established in this book is confirmed by the statement in an oration falsely ascribed to Chrysostom (Vol. VIII, p. 621, Paris, 1836), that Paul served God thirty-five years and died at the age of sixty-eight. As there can be little doubt that his martyrdom took place about a.d. 67 this fourth century authority (which bears the stamp of truth in its matter-of-fact simplicity) proves that he was converted in 33 a.d., as we have deduced from the statements of Luke and Paul (p. 376, and my article in Expositor, May, 1896).