chapters, and two of them twice: ἀπο- πλέω, xiii. 4, xiv. 26; διατρίβω with accusative of time, xiv. 3; ἕξειμι, xiii. 42; ἥμέραι πλείονς, xiii. 31; προσκέ- κλημαι with accusative, xiii. 2, 7; ὑπονοέω, xiii. 25. On the position of these two chapters relatively to chap. xv. see below.
Additional note on xiv. 23.—On the rapid spread of Christianity in Asia Minor see Ramsay, Cities and Bishop- rics of Phrygia, i., pp. 87, 94, 95, 135- 137, and Church in the Roman Em- pire, pp. 161, 397. The old nature religion with its negation of moral dis- tinctions and family ties was doomed, a religion which on the one hand made woman the head of the family, and on the other hand compelled her to a so- called sacred service which involved the surrender of ali which in a civilised community womanhood held most dear. The strength of the old ritual, however, was 5ο great that it seems to have been maintained in Phrygia even after a higher type of society became known in the Roman period. But with the growth of Roman organisation and educational in- fluences the minds of men were at least prepared for new ideas, and at this juncture St. Paul came preaching a gospel of home life, of Christian purity ; and wherever higher social ideas had already penetrated he found converts disposed to follow his teaching as ‘a more excellent way”. In connection with the wide spread of Christianity in Asia Minor see also Orr, Some Neglected Factors in the Study of the Early Progress of Christianity, p. 48 ff. (1899).
CHAPTER XV.—Ver. I. τινες κατελ. ἀπὸ τῆς .: on the vagueness of the expression.see Ramsay, St. Paul, pp. 158, 15ο.--κατελ., 1.6., to Antioch; see critical notes for B reading, and additional note at end of chapter on the identifi- cation of Gal. ii. 1-10 with Acts xv.: in the early Church in favour of the identi- fication, ‘ef. lren.,, Ισ το; 9: Tertullian, Adv. Marc., v., 2.---ἐδίδασκον: imperfect, representing perhaps their con- tinuous’ efforts to force their teaching on
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