[11.46] Acts xx. 17, 21.
[11.47] Acts ix. 29, 30.
[11.48] 48. Gal. i. 21.
[11.49] Acts ix. 30; xi. 25. The capital chronological datum for this epoch of the life of St. Paul is Gal. i. 18; ii. 1.
[11.50] Cilicia had a church in the year 51. Acts xv. 23, 41.
[11.51] It is in the Epistle to the Galatians (towards 56), that Paul places himself for the first time openly in the rank of the apostles (i. 1, and the following). According to Gal. ii. 7–10, he had received this title in 51. Still he did not assume it, even in the subscription of the two Epistles to the Thessalonians, which are of the year 53. I. Thess. ii. 6, does not imply an official title. The author of the Acts never gives Paul the name of “apostle.” “The apostles,” for the author of the Acts, are “the Twelve.” Acts xiv. 4, 14, is an exception.
CHAPTER XII.
[12.1] Acts xi. 19.
[12.2] Josephus, Wars of the Jews, ii. 4. Rome and Alexandria were the two chief ones; compare Strabo xvi. ii. 5.
[12.3] Compare Otfried Müller, Antiochian Antiquities, Göttingen, 1839, p. 68. John Chrysostom, on Saint Ignatius, 4 (opp. t. ii. p. 597, edit. Montfaucon): On Matthew, Homilies lxxxv. 4. (vol. viii. p. 810). He estimates the population of Antioch at two hundred thousand souls, without counting slaves, infants, and the immense suburbs. The present city has a population of not more than seven thousand.