. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. , however, assiune that Paul did imderstandLycaonian, and that he must have adchessed themultitude in Lycaonian, for that they couldnot liavo understood any other tongue. But wecannot believe that they did not understandGretk, which was the vehicle of communication. both commercially and politically, over the wholeof Asia Minor. ^* TOV AlOS TOV OVTQS TTpo TTjS noKcoJS UVTOIV. Acts xiv. 13. So, Zei/s UpuTTvXos T^r fieydXrisBias ApTtfiidos TTpo ffoXfws. Boeckli, Corpus In-scrip. Gra^c. No. 2963 c.•« Thus Ovid, F. v. 495 :— Jupiter et lato qui regnat i
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. , however, assiune that Paul did imderstandLycaonian, and that he must have adchessed themultitude in Lycaonian, for that they couldnot liavo understood any other tongue. But wecannot believe that they did not understandGretk, which was the vehicle of communication. both commercially and politically, over the wholeof Asia Minor. ^* TOV AlOS TOV OVTQS TTpo TTjS noKcoJS UVTOIV. Acts xiv. 13. So, Zei/s UpuTTvXos T^r fieydXrisBias ApTtfiidos TTpo ffoXfws. Boeckli, Corpus In-scrip. Gra^c. No. 2963 c.•« Thus Ovid, F. v. 495 :— Jupiter et lato qui regnat in aequore fraterCarpebant socias Mercuriusque vias. So Hyginus, Poet. Astron. 34 :— Cum Jovem et Mercurium hoepiter excepisset. So Euripides, Ion, 4:— Epju^f fieyiari^ Ztjii, Sal^dluf AaTpif. And see Wetstein ad loc. [ 46] ST. PAULS FIBST CIRCUIT. [Chap. VIIl. with garlands,^ as the custom was, before the doors of the house in which Barnabasand Paul were lodged, and was about to offer them sacrifice. Horrorstruck at the. Fig. 76.—Medal representing the ceremony of a sacrifice. From Pembroke legend is Vota soluta pro Salute Populi Romani (tows discharged for the welfare of the Roman people). profane superstition of the multitude, the Apostles rushed out of the house, rendingtheir clothes, and crying: Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of likepassions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities untothe living God, which made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that aretherein. Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways: never-theless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rainfrom heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. Thus,and in the like strain, they deprecated the madness of the people, and with difficultycould they restrain them from doing sacrifice to them as gods. But soon the wind blew from another quarter. T
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