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As he waited at Troas for indications of the will of his Creator as to his future movements, he saw, in the vision of the night, a man from the opposite shores of Macedonia standing before him and heard him cry."Come over and help us":.Acts 16:9.

Paul recognized in this vision a message from the Lord and the very next day set sail across the Hellespont, which separated him from Europe and carried the tidings of the gospel into the Western world. In Macedonia, churches were planted in Philippi, Thessalonica and Berea. Leaving this province, Paul passed into Achaia 'the paradise of genius and renown'. He reached Athens, but quitted it after, probably, a brief sojourn:.Acts 17:16-34. The Athenians had received him with cold disdain and he never visited that city again. He passed over to Corinth, the seat of the Roman government of Achaia and remained there a year and a half, labouring with much success. While at Corinth, he wrote his two epistles to the church of Thessalonica, his earliest apostolic letters and then sailed for Syria, that he might be in time to keep the feast of Pentecost at Jerusalem. 

Prior to his trip to Syria, for some reason.(maybe this: 1Corinthians 9:20; Romans 11:14; *), Paul appears to have taken upon himself the old covenant Nazarite vow:.Acts 18:18. This could only be terminated by his going up to Jerusalem to offer up the hair which till then was to be left uncut. But it seems to have been allowable for persons at a distance to cut the hair, which was to be brought up to Jerusalem, where the ceremony was completed. This Paul did at Cenchrea just before setting out on his voyage into Syria. 

On another occasion.(Acts 21:23-26), at the feast of Pentecost, Paul took on himself again the Nazarite vow. "The ceremonies involved took a longer time than Paul had at his disposal, but the law permitted a man to share the vow if he could find companions who had gone through the prescribed ceremonies and who permitted him to join their company. This permission was commonly granted if the newcomer paid all the fees required from the whole company.(fee to the Levite for cutting the hair and fees for sacrifices).and finished the vow along with the others. Four Jewish Christians were performing the vow and would admit Paul to their company, provided he paid their expenses. Paul consented, paid the charges and when the last seven days of the vow began he went with them to live in the temple, giving the usual notice to the priests that he had joined in regular fashion, was a sharer with the four men and that his vow would end with theirs. Nazarites retired to the temple during the last period of seven days, because they could be secure there against any accidental defilement."....Lindsay's Acts.

Paul was accompanied by Aquila and Priscilla to Syria, whom he left at Ephesus, at which he touched, after a voyage of thirteen or fifteen days. He landed at Caesarea and went up to Jerusalem, and having "saluted the church" there and kept the feast, he left for Antioch, where he abode for awhile:.Acts 18:20-23

He then began his.third missionary tour.(map of third journey). He journeyed by land in the upper coasts.(the more eastern parts).of Asia Minor and at length made his way to Ephesus, where he tarried for no less than three years, engaged in ceaseless Christian labour. This city was at the time the Liverpool of the Mediterranean. It possessed a splendid harbour, in which was concentrated the traffic of the sea, which was then the highway of the nations and as Liverpool has behind her the great towns of Lancashire, so had Ephesus behind and around her such cities as those mentioned along with her in the epistles.(letters).to the churches in the book of Revelation, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.(both the FreeBible and the Online Bible have maps of Paul's journeys). It was a city of vast wealth and it was given over to every kind of pleasure, the fame of its theatres and race course being world wide.(Stalker's Life of St. Paul). Here a "great door and effectual" was opened to the apostle. His fellow labourers aided him in his work, carrying the gospel to Colosse and Laodicea and other places which they could reach. 

Very shortly before his departure from Ephesus, the apostle wrote his First Epistle to the Corinthians. 

The silversmiths, whose traffic in the little images which they made was in danger.(see Demetrius), organized a riot against Paul and he left the city and proceeded to Troas.(2Corinthians 2:12), whence after some time he went to meet Titus in Macedonia. Here, in consequence of the report Titus brought from Corinth, he wrote his second epistle to that church. Having spent probably most of the summer and autumn in Macedonia, visiting the churches there, specially the churches of Philippi, Thessalonica and Berea, probably penetrating into the interior, to the shores of the Adriatic.(Romans 15:19). He then came into Greece, where he abode three months, spending probably the greater part of this time in Corinth:.Acts 20:2. During his stay in this city he wrote his.Epistle.(formal letter).to the Galatians.and also the great.Epistle to the Romans. At the end of the three months he left Achaia for Macedonia, thence crossed into Asia Minor and touching at Miletus, there addressed the Ephesian presbyters, whom he had sent for to meet him.(Acts 20:17).and then sailed for Tyre, finally reaching Jerusalem, probably in the spring of 58 A.D.
 


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