SECOND EPISTLE TO THE COiUN T H Ii\ N S. 8M 



Elder it to be implied by tlie words of the quotation, that 

 Corinth was the extremity of St. Paul's travels hitherto. 

 He expresses to the Corinthians his hope, that in some future 

 visit he might " preach the gospel to the regions beyond 

 them ;" which imports that he had not hitherto proceeded 

 " beyond them," but that Corinth was as yet the furthest 

 mini or boundary of his travels. Now, how is St. Pauls 

 drst journey into Europe, which was the only one he had 

 taken before the writing of the epistle, traced out in the 

 history ? Sailing from Asia, he landed at Philippi ; from 

 Pliilippi, traversing the eastern coast of the peninsula, he 

 passed through Amphipolis and Appollonia to Thessalonica ; 

 from thence through Berea to Athens, and from Athens to 

 Corinth, ivhere he stojjped ; and from whence, after a resi- 

 dence of a year and a half, he sailed back into Syria. So 

 that Corinth was the l-ast place which he visited in the 

 peninsula ; was the place from which he returned into Asia, 

 and was, as such, the boundary and limit of his progress. 

 He could not have said the same thing, namely, " I ho])e 

 hereafter to visit the regions beyond you," in an epistle to 

 the Philippians, or in an epistle to the Thessalonians, inas- 

 much as he must be deemed to have already visited the 

 regions beyond them, having proceeded from those cities to 

 other parts of Greece. But from Corinth he returned hoixie •• 

 every part therefore beyond that city might properly be i lid 

 as it is said in the passage before us, to be unvisited. Yet 

 is this propriety the spontaneous effect of truth, and prod ced 

 without meditation or design. 



