. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Minor, the writers they are laid down by Strabo, who was the con- of the New Testament pay no regard to the temporary of Paul, and a native of Pontus, so political division of countries, but look simply to that no one could stand higher as an authority. the natiormlities- or the different peoples, as dis- The variations from Strabo, adopted by the tinguished by their origin or language. They author, are sUght, and only in those cases where treat the peninsula, therefore, as composed of Strabo himself admits that there was gieat con- the following countries:
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Minor, the writers they are laid down by Strabo, who was the con- of the New Testament pay no regard to the temporary of Paul, and a native of Pontus, so political division of countries, but look simply to that no one could stand higher as an authority. the natiormlities- or the different peoples, as dis- The variations from Strabo, adopted by the tinguished by their origin or language. They author, are sUght, and only in those cases where treat the peninsula, therefore, as composed of Strabo himself admits that there was gieat con- the following countries: viz. on the seacoast, fusion, and that opinions differed. Thus, Strabo Cilioia, Pamphylia, Lycia, Caria, Lydia (called would seem to assign Antioch of Pisidia, or (as by them Asia), Mysia, Troas, Bithynia, Papilla- he writes it) Antioch on Pisidia—to Phrygia; gonia, Pontus ; and in the interior, Cappadocia, but Pliny and Ptolemy, and Stejihanus Byzan- Pisidia, Phrygia, and Galatia. tinus, and others, agree with Luke in reckoning. Chap. VIU.] -ST. PAWS FIRST CIRVVIT. [ 4G] 131 trary, was brokea up into numerous communities, varying in manners, language, andreligion, and ruled partly by Eoman prefects, and partly by petty kings and poten-tates, the feudataries of Rome. The geographers enumerate more than seventeennations as occupying the peninsula west of a line running north and south from it as situate in Pisidia, and the latter view hasbeen preferred. Again, the tract which con-tained Laodicea, Colossie, and Hierapolis is alsoattributed by Strabo to Phrygia; but this regionis placed by the author in Lydia. As to the political state of the particular coim-tries now about to be traversed by the Apostle,we had better commence with the kingdom ofAmyiitis. In 39, Mark Antony appointedAmyntas King of Pisidia, the mountain range atthe north of Pamphylia (Appian, B. C. v. 75),and reaching up to the Paroreia, or mountainridge, which ran from east to west, from Tyrifeum to O
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