History of the Galli or Galatians-Worship of Cybele-Ancyra -Settlement of Jews-St. Paul's illness-The loyal affec- tion of the Galatians-The Apostle's second visit-The change for the worse-The Epistle to the Galatians-The Judaisers and their action-The contents of the Epistle- The marks of the Lord Jesus-Crescens-The Epistles of ST. PAUL AT TARSUS. THE words by which St. Paul describes his own birthplace might well be used of it without any exaggeration. He was indeed a citizen of "no mean city." It was conspicuously, in the language of ancient geographers and historians, the greatest, the most illustrious of the cities of Cilicia. The three Greek letters which appeared on its coinage (Π. Μ. Κ., Πρώτη Μητρόπολις Κιλικίας) marked it out as the first, the metropolis, or mother city of that province. At the time of the expedition of the Ten Thousand Greeks, of which Xenophon has given us the record (B.C. 400), it was populous and flourishing, and its history carries us back to a yet more remote antiquity. It shared with Anchiale the honour of being immortalized in the famous epitaph attributed to Sardanapalus, the last of the Assyrian kings, and which told how he, The son of Anacyndaraxes, In one day built Anchiale and Tarsus. Eat, drink, and love: the rest's not worth a fillip.3 1 Lewin, St. Paul, i. p. 79. 2 Xen. Anab. i. 3 Strabo, xiv. 5. napalus, act I. sc. 2. The translation is from Byron's Sarda |