30 HOEJE PAULINiE. 



The name of Illyncum nowhere occurs in the Av.ts of tho 

 Apostles ; no suspicion, therefore, can be received, that the 

 mention of it was borrowed from thence. Yet I think it 

 appears from these same Acts, that St. Paul, before the 

 time when he wrote his epistle to the Romans, had reached 

 the confines of Illyricum ; or, however, that he might have 

 done so, in perfect consistency with the account there deliv 

 ered. Illyricum adjoins upon Macedonia ; measuring from 

 Jerusalem towards Home, it lies close behind it. If, there- 

 fore, St. Paul traversed the whole country of Macedonia, the 

 route would necessarily bring him to the confines of Illyri- 

 cum, and these confines would be described as the extremity 

 of his journey. Now the account of St. Paul's second visit 

 to the peninsula of Greece is contained in these words : "He 

 departed for to go into Macedonia. And when he had gone 

 over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he 

 came into Greece." Acts 20 : 2. This account allows, or 

 rather leads us to suppose, that St. Paul, in going over Mac- 

 edonia {6ieMuv Tu idpn EKEiva,) had passed so far to the west 

 as to come into those parts of the country which v>^ere con- 

 tiguous to Illyricum, if he did not enter into Illyricum itself 

 The history, therefore, and the epistles so far agree, and the 

 agreement is much strengthened by a coincidence of ti??ic. 

 At the time the epistle was written, St. Paul might say, in 

 conformity with the history, that he had " come into Illyri- 

 cum :" much before that time, he could not have said so ; 

 for, upon his former journey to Macedonia, his route is laid 

 down from the time of his landing at Philippi to his sailing 

 from Corinth. "We trace him from Philippi to Amphipohs 

 and Apollonia ; from thence to Thessalonica ; from Thessa- 

 Lonica to Berea ; from Berea to Athens ; and from Athens 

 to Corinth : which track confines him to the eastern side of 

 the peninsula, and therefore keeps him all the while at a 

 considerable distance from Illyricum. Upon his second visit 

 to Macedonia, the history, we have seen, leave? him at lib 

 erty. It must have been, therefore, upon that second visiU 



