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of Syria, where Paul and Barnabas resided "a long time," 

 but Antioch in Pisidia, to which place Paul and Barnabas 

 came in their first apostolic progress, and where Paul deliv- 

 ered a memorable discourse, which is preserved in the thir- 

 teenth chapter of the Acts. At this Antioch the history re* 

 lates, that "the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable 

 women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecu- 

 tion against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out 

 of their coasts. But they shook off the dust of their feet 



against them, and came unto Iconiuni And it came 



to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the 

 synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude 

 both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed. But the 

 unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their 

 minds evil-afiected against the brethren. Long time there- 

 fore abode they, speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave 

 testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and 

 wonders to be done by their hands. But the multitude of 

 the city was divided ; and part held with the Jews, and 

 part with the apostles. And when there was an assault 

 made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with theii 

 rulers, to use them despitefully and to stone them, they 

 were aware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities oi 

 Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about; and 



there they preached the gospel And there came 



thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who per- 

 suaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out of 

 the city, supposing he had been dead. Howbeit, as the dis- 

 ciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the 

 city ; and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. 

 i\.nd when they had preached the gospel to that city, and 

 had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Ico- 

 nium, and to Antioch." This account comprises the period 

 to which the allusion in the epistle is to be referred. We 

 have so far, therefore, a conformity between the history and 

 the epistle, that St. Paul is asserted in the history to have 



