[238] Acts. 13. 7.
[239] Cyprus, by Cesnola (London, 1877), p. 425.
In the same way Gallio is correctly described as proconsul of Achaia.[240] For though this province belonged to the Emperor for some years before A.D. 44, and was independent after A.D. 66, it belonged to the Senate in the interval, when the writer referred to it. And an inscription, recently found at Delphi, shows that Gallio was proconsul in A.D. 52, which agrees well with the chronology of the Acts.[241] Equally correct is the title of governor or procurator, applied to both Felix and Festus.[242] While it is satisfactory to add that the title lord, addressed to the Emperor Nero, which used to be thought rather a difficulty, as it was not known to have been adopted till the time of Domitian (A.D. 81-96), has now been found in papyri of the age of Nero.[243]
[240] Acts 18. 12.
[241] Palestine Exploration Quarterly, July, 1913.
[242] Acts 19. 38; 23. 26; 26. 30.
[243] Acts 25. 26; Deissman, New Light on the New Testament, 1907, p. 80.
Again, Herod (i.e., Agrippa I.) shortly before his death, is styled king.[244] Now we learn from other sources that he had this title for the last three years of his government (A.D. 41-44), though there had been no king in Judæa for the previous thirty years, nor for many centuries afterwards.
[244] Acts 12. 1; Josephus, Antiq., xviii. 6, xix. 5.