Identifier: earlydaysofchrist00gran (find matches)
Title: The early days of Christianity
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Grant, Frederick C. (Frederick Clifton), 1891-1974
Subjects: Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Abingdon press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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pping-stone on the way to Galatia,Asia, and Europe! At Salamis.—Bidding farewell to the church, the twomissionaries went down from Antioch to Seleucia, theseaport, and took ship for Cyprus. Some of the brethrenno doubt came to see them off and stood on the greatstone pier (fragments of which still remain, running farout beneath the water), and waved good-by as the smallwooden coaster got slowly under way. At last only itsangular lateen sails could be seen, far out over the bluewaters, as it headed west-southwest for Cyprus. Theroute covered about one hundred and thirty-five or onehundred and forty miles—eighty miles to the northeasttip of the island and the remainder coastwise, with theOlympian range of mountains in full view. The voyageprobably took the best part of a day and a night. Salamis was the eastern port of Cyprus, with roadsforking west, northwest and southwest toward the in-terior of the island. Here Paul and Barnabas dis-embarked, and preached the gospel in the Jewish
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THfi NEW YORK PUBLIC. LIBRARY THE GOSPEL IN CYPRUS AND GALATIA 115 synagogues. They must have remained several weeksin order to preach in more than one. It is not said thatthey preached to Gentiles, though they doubtless did,as well as to Jews. It may even be that Salamis was thebirthplace of Barnabas, and that he had relatives therewith whom the apostles stayed. Luke says that they*had John as their attendant. This was John Mark,the cousin of Barnabas, whose mother owned the housein Jerusalem used by the church (Acts 12:12), and whowas later to write the Gospel known by his name. At Paphos.—Leaving Salamis after some weeks, theyjourneyed through the island toward Paphos, its port onthe southwest coast. Cyprus was a beautiful island,populous, and famous from early antiquity as the seatof the worship of Aphrodite. It had little to boast of inthe way of culture or art or learning, but it wasyearlyvisited by multitudes of pilgrims, and its shrines wereknown throughout the whole world.

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