I am partly glad, partly sorry, to have little change
to make in this edition — glad, because the words
printed, however inadequate I feel them to be, have,
on the whole, stood the test of further thought and
growing knowledge — sorry, because so few of the
faults which must exist have revealed themselves to
me. On p. 275 a change is made in an important
detail. The following notes are confirmatory of
arguments in the text : —
1. The examination of the development of
Christianity in Phrygia, contained in Chapters XII
and XVII of my Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia
(Part II, 1897), shows that Christianity spread with
marvellous rapidity at the end of the first and in the
second century after Christ in the parts of Phrygia
that lay along the road from Pisidian Antioch to
Ephesus, and in the neighbourhood of Iconium,
whereas it did not become powerful in those parts
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of Phrygia that adjoined North Galatia till the fourth century. Further, in a paper printed in Studia Biblica IV, I have pointed out that Christi- anity seems to have hardly begun to affect the district of North Galatia which lies on the side of Phrygia until the fourth century. The first parts of North Galatia to feel the influence of the new religion were evidently Ancyra and the districts around it ; and even there the new influence was so strong as in some parts of Phrygia. These facts obviously are fatal to the theory that St. Paul's Galatian Churches were founded in the part of North Galatia adjoining Phrygia.
2. On p. 43, 1. i, it should be stated more clearly that Cornelius was a " God-fearing " proselyte.
3. On p. 46, 1. 12 ff., the limits are stated beyond which Paul's work in the eight years (not ten), 35"43» was not carried ; and the rather incautious words on p. 47, 1. 10, do not imply that he was engaged in continuous work of preaching during that time. It is probable that quiet meditation and self-preparation filled considerable part of these years. The words of XI 26 (compare Luke II 24)