[11.41] Ibid. i. 18. Impossible, consequently, to admit as exact the 28th and 29th verses of Acts ix. The author of the _Acts_ makes an abusive employment of these ambushes and murderous projects. The Acts vary from the Epistle to the Galatians in supposing the sojourn of St. Paul at Jerusalem too long, and too near to his conversion. Naturally the Epistle merits our preference, at least, as to its chronology and the material circumstances. [11.42] See especially the Epistle to the Galatians. [11.43] Epistle to the Galatians, i. 11, 12, and nearly throughout; I. Cor. ix. 1, and following; xv. 1, and following; II. Cor. xi. 21, and following. [11.44] We find this sentiment more or less directly; Rom. xii. 14; I. Cor. xiii. 2; II. Cor. iii. 6; I. Thess. iv. 8; v. 2, 6. [11.45] Gal. i. 22, 23. [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. [12.4] The corresponding streets of Palmyra, Gerasium, Gadara, and Sebaste, were probably imitations of the grand _Corso_ of Antioch. [12.5] Some traces of it are found in the direction of _Bâb Bolos_.