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it pleased God .... to reveal his Son in me, that 1 might 

 preaoh him among the heathen ; immediately I conferred 

 not with flesh and blood." Galatians I : 15. 



4. The course of the apostle's travels after his conver- 

 sion was this : he went from Damascus to Jerusalem, and 

 from Jerusalem into Syria and Cilicia. At Damascus, "the 

 disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall 

 in a basket. And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he 

 assayed to join himself to the disciples." Acts 9 : 25, 26. 

 Afterwards, "when the brethren knew" the conspiracy 

 formed against him at Jerusalem, "they brought him down 

 to Cesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus," a city in Cilicia. 

 Ver. 30. In the epistle, St. Paul gives the following briel 

 account of his proceedings within the same period : " After 

 three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode 

 with him fifteen days. Afterwards I came into the regions 

 of Syria and Cilicia." The history had told us that Paul 

 passed from Cesarea to Tarsus : if he took his journey by 

 land, it would carry him through Syria into Cilicia ; and he 

 would come, after his visit at Jerusalem, " into the regions 

 of Syria and Cilicia," in the very order in which he men- 

 tions them in the epistle. This supposition of his going 

 from Cesarea to Tarsus b?j land, clears up also another 

 point. It accounts for what St. Paul says in the same place 

 concerning the churches of Judea : "Afterwards I came into 

 the regions of Syria and Cilicia ; and was unknown by face 

 unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ : but they 

 had heard only. That he which persecuted us in times past, 

 now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. And 

 thoy glorified God in me." Upon which passage I observe, 

 first, that what is here said of the churches of Judea, is 

 spoken in connection with his journey into the regions of 

 Syria and Cilicia. Secondly, that the passage itself has 

 little significancy, and that the connection is inexplicable, 

 unless St. Paul went through Judea — though probably by a 

 hasty journey — at the time that he came into the region* oJ 



