162 REY. P. P. FLOUENOY^ D.D., ON BEARING OF ARCH5:0L0GICAL 



familiarity exhibited when we coine to follow Paul and his 

 companions to regions outside the Holy Land.* Only a few 

 examples can be noticed. 



(10) Sergius Paulus, PEOCONSUL.f — When Paul leaves 

 Antioch on his first missionary journey, he is found speaking of 

 the truths of the Gospel to Sergius Paulus, the goYernor of 

 Cyprus, whom Luke speaks of as the proconsul (dvOviraro^;). 

 Dion Cassius at one time spoke of Cypi'us as an imperial 

 province, the governor of wdrich would be a propraetor. But 

 afterwards he mentions the fact that Augustus restored Cyprus 

 to the senate in exchange for Dalmatia, so that, at this time, it 

 was ruled by a proconsul. A Cyprian coin of the reign of 

 Claudius is found to bear this title used by Luke. Besides, an 

 inscription has been discovered giving the names of two other 

 governors of Cyprus called proconsuls. We find Luke giving 

 the appropriate titles to those in authority in each city which 

 is visited. 



(11) Pr^toes and Lictoes. — At Philippi, for instance, 

 which was a " colony," we find the magistrates who condemned 

 Paul and Silas to prison called arparr^yoi (Praetors) (Acts xvi, 

 20, 22, etc.) We find, too, that the missionaries were beaten 

 with rods of lictors, officers who were employed in a " colony," 

 which was a sort of miniature Eome. 



(12) PoLiTARCHS. — When Paul and his companions go on 

 to Thessalonica, which was a " free city," we find the " demos," a 

 popular assembly, in power, and their officers are not called by 

 any of the titles mentioned. They are " politarchs." 



"An inscription still legible on an archway in Thessalonica gives 

 this very title ' politarchs ' to the magistrates of the place, and 

 mentions the names of some who bore the office not long before the 

 day of Paul." (Maclear's Illustrations, sec. V.)]: 



(13) AsiARCHS. — Ephesus, another free city, has its demos, 

 its town clerk and its asiarchs, the last corresponding somewhat 

 with the ^diles of Eome. (Ibid.) Wood's explorations at 

 Ephesus have brought to light the marble seats of its theatre in 



* "The study of the Hfe of the Grseco-Roman world is now fully 

 recognized to be absolutely necessary, if we do not wish our notions, 

 about early Christianity to be a mere caricature of the truth." — Professor 

 Kirsopp Lake, in Expository Times, December, 1911, pp. 99, 100. 



t A Greek inscription of Soloi on the north coast of Cyprus is dated 

 in the consulship of Paulus . . . found and made known by General 

 di Cesnola ; but more accurately and completely published in Mr. D. G. 

 Hogarth's Devia Ci/pria, p. 114. (>S^. Paul the Traveller, p. 74.) 



X Now in the British Museum. 



