Paul was sent on a mission into Asia (from Antioch, with
Barnabas); this mission lasted till the year of the
Apostles' meeting at Jerusalem, which was fourteen
years after' the conversion of Saul in A.D. 37.
Paul went to Jerusalem (III) and returned to Antioch
after the Council.

Paul went from Antioch over his former mission-ground
with Silas, but was directed very soon to Macedonia :
founded a Church at Thessalonica, &c. was obliged to
go to Athens, and Corinth.

Paul remained at Corinth, wrote twice to the Thessalonians
(A.D. 53 fin.?), and continued more than two years at
the isthmus (A.D. 54).

In the October of that year, Claudius was poisoned; and
Paul left Corinth.

Reign of Nero, from October A.D. 54 to June A.D. 68.

Paul spent the year following his departure from Corinth
in a visit to Jerusalem (IV), Antioch, and his Asiatic
Churches.

Paul went to Ephesus in the course of this year, and
remained there principally for three years, having the
'care of all the Churches,' both in Asia and in the islands
from Cyprus to Crete. He wrote to Corinth in A.D. 57.
Paul left Ephesus: went to Macedonia. Wrote to Timothy
(I): was joined by Titus and Timothy. Wrote to
Corinth (II) from Macedonia: went to Corinth the
second time. Wrote to Rome: left Titus behind him:
sent Timothy on to Asia: followed him (via Macedonia):
left Timothy at Ephesus, and proceeded to Cæsarea and
Jerusalem (V). From Cæsarea he wrote to Titus.
Paul was apprehended at Jerusalem, and imprisoned two
years at Cæsarea-till the coming of Festus. He wrote
to the Galatians here (A.D. 59 or 60).

Paul was sent prisoner to Rome was wrecked :-arrived, and was well treated. He wrote to Timothy to come to him (II). He wrote to the Ephesians. Timothy arrived. He wrote to the Colossians, Philemon, and the Philippians: and was in custody two years.

Paul was free at Rome: probably went elsewhere, and returned. Timothy had been also imprisoned (?). Paul wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews, Timothy was set free. Paul was martyred.

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THE FIRST SPEECH OF S. PAUL.

PREFACE.

THE only part of the teaching of S. Paul which has come down to us, previous to his entering on his European mission, is found in the short address which he made in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia.

Great as his labours had been, extending in connection with those of Barnabasa from Antioch in Syria to the interior of Asia Minor, one speech is the only relic that remains of the great Apostle's manner and matter, in this work for his Divine Master. He left Churches in many of the regions that he traversed, (and these were, as he expressed it, his epistles known and read of all men'), but no writings of that mission have survived. It is with much interest,

once

Cilicia,'
(Gal. i. 21);
and pos-
sibly in
Galatia be-

fore Bar

nabas

then, that we examine the single example that we have of his way of joined him. putting the Gospel at first before the Jews, to whom for a time he principally would have access.

• Acts xv.

The speech is addressed to a Jewish communityb surrounded by ↳ Acts xiii. heathen. His friend Barnabas was with him, continuing to be his 13. companion till after the Council of Jerusalem; when Barnabas somewhat inclined to Judaized, and in that respect adhered to Peter and to John Mark.

36-38.

Gal. ii. 13.

THE CONTINUOUS SENSE OF S. PAUL'S FIRST RECORDED

SPEECH.

(Acts xiii. To the Jews; Pisidia.)

16 HEBREWS and Proselytes, I ask you to listen to me now:I need not at any length remind you how God chose our 19 ancestors, trained theme in Egypt and in the desert, and finally popnoe.

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