. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. to Antioch, (Tvv(KSi] Acts xix. 29. See note ^, p. which would bring us to the latter part of October. 312. From this time to the close of February would Acts xvi. 6. be four months, which, if we are right, must be * Acts xviii. period indicated by Lukes expression of Chap. XIII,] SV. PAULS rillllD cnicuiT. [ 54] miles, and thence through the celebrated Cilician Gates (fig. 144) by way of Mazaca,or Cffisarea of Cappadocia, to Tavium, the nearest capital of Galatia, and whichaccording to the Peutinger Table, lay at a distance of 271 miles
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. to Antioch, (Tvv(KSi] Acts xix. 29. See note ^, p. which would bring us to the latter part of October. 312. From this time to the close of February would Acts xvi. 6. be four months, which, if we are right, must be * Acts xviii. period indicated by Lukes expression of Chap. XIII,] SV. PAULS rillllD cnicuiT. [ 54] miles, and thence through the celebrated Cilician Gates (fig. 144) by way of Mazaca,or Cffisarea of Cappadocia, to Tavium, the nearest capital of Galatia, and whichaccording to the Peutinger Table, lay at a distance of 271 miles from Tarsus, , 191 miles to Caesarea, and then 80 miles from Caesarea to Tavium. A journey ofthis length, at the rate of twenty-five miles a day, would occupy about eleven days,without allowing any rest for the sabbath, or thirteen days if we allow two days restfor the sabbaths. From Tavium Paul would revisit, in succession, the churches beforeplanted by him at Ancyra and Pessinus. By his converts in Galatia the Apostle was. somewhat less rapturously received than on his former visit. Then the faith of theGentiles, being for the first time planted, was pure and unadulterated. But duringhis lengthened absence, the Jews interspersed amongst the Galatian converts had, asin other places, sown the seeds of discord on the subject of the Jewish law. Paul wasnow called upon to check the spreading leaven, and he rebuked them sharply. In theletter which he afterwards wrote to them, he recalls to their recollection his plainnessof speech, while he was yet amongst them; for alluding to the hatred, variance, emula-tions, wrath, strife, seditions, and heresies which were again rife in Galatia, he adds. Of the which I tell you before, as I also iold you in time past, that they which dosuch things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. The Apostles labours on this Itin. Hiero.«. See note ante, p. 135. Gal. V. 21. Paul by this reprimand on hissecond visit lost groniid in then- affectio
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