Phrygian and Galatian country’ (ac-
cording to the correct reading which
M. Renan neglects) appears in its stu-
died vagueness to exclude the idea that
St Luke means the province of Gala-
tia, whose boundaries were precisely
marked. And even granting that the
Christian communities of Lycaonia
and Pisidia could by a straining of
language be called Churches of Gala-
tia, is it possible that St Paul would
address them personally as ‘ye fool-
ish Galatians’ (Gal. iii. 1)? Such lan-
guage would be no more appropriate
than if a modern preacher in a fami-
liar address were to appeal to the
Poles of Warsaw as ‘ye Russians,’ or
the Hungarians of Pesth as ‘ye Aus-
trians,’ or the Irish of Cork as ‘ye


Englishmen.’


(ii) In the itinerary of St Paul
several points require consideration.
(a) M. Renan lays stress on the fact
that in Acts xvi. 6, xviii. 23, the order
in which the names of Phrygia and
Galatia occur is inverted. I seem to
myself to have explained this satisfac-
torily in the text. He appears to be
unaware of the correct reading in xvi.
