The first direct Gentile propaganda was made by the Cypriote
and Cyrenian refugees from the Jerusalem persecution, Acts 11,
20. In contrast to those who in the previous verse spoke the
word to none save only the Jews, these men in Antioch spoke
unto the Greeks also, "EXXiji/as, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Knowling follows the reading 'EXXijckttAs; * and this on the
ground 'that as far as Antioch Jews only had been addressed.
But on the contrary, Stephen and Paul had addressed Hellenists
in their synagogues at Jerusalem, Acts, 6, 8; 9, 29; and they al-
ready formed part of the Jerusalem Church, 6, 1, The reading
'Greeks' is moreover supported not only by the contrast with the

on pp. 219 and 304; Von DobschOtz in Hauck's P. R. E., Bd. 16, p. 120 ff.;
Bertholet. op. cti., J 7, p. 328 ff.; F. C. Porter, //. D. B., IV, p. 134 f.; Hamack,
Miu. and Ex-pant. 1, p. 10 f.; Lake, Earlier BpMet o/ St. Paid, p. 37 f.
«» P. Wendland, HtUen.-R6m. KuUw, 120, holds that Havet (Le Chriati-
aniime, IV, 102) is not jutttified in the exaggerated statement that in Paul's
lifetime no one that was actually a heathen, i, e., who did not already know
Judaism and its Bible, became a Christian.
** See further reference to the reading, chap, vii, n. 3.
