60 Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.19.
59Luke’s list of places deviates sufficiently from similar lists which have been compared to his to suggest that he did not take it over as such from some literary source (astrological or otherwise) but was himself responsible for the selection of place-names (cf. B. M. Metzger, “Ancient Astrological Geography and Acts 2:9-11,” New Testament Studies [Leiden, 1980], pp. 46-56).
60Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.19.
61Col. 1:7 (see pp. 43-44).
62Philem. 23 (see p. 224).
63See W. M. Ramsay, The Church in the Roman Empire before A.D. 170 (London, 51897), p. 94. It is less likely that “the upper parts” (τὰ ἀνωτεϱιϰὰ μέϱη) should be taken as resumptive of “the Galatian region and Phrygia” through which Paul is said to have passed on his westward journey in Acts 18:23.