mission,  "  went  to  Tarsus  for  to  seek  him."*  We
cannot  doubt  but  that  the  new  apostle  had  been
busied  in  his  ministry ;  yet  of  what  he  did,  or
what  he  suflcrcd,  during  this  period,  which  may
include  three  or  four  years,  the  history  professes
not  to  deliver  any  information. As  'I'arsus  was
situated  upon  the  sea-coast,  and  as,  though  Tarsus
was  his  home,  yet  it  is  probable  he  visited  from
thence   many  other  places,   for   the   purpose  of
preaching  the  Gospel,  it  is  not  unlikely,  that,  in
the  course  of  three  or  four  years,  he  might  under-
take many  short  voyages  to  neighbouring  coun-
tries, in  the  navigating  of  which  we  may  be  al-
lowed to  suppose  that  some  of  those  disasters  and
shipwrecks  befell  him,  to  which  he  refers  in  the
quotation  before  us,  "thrice  I  suffered  shipwreck,
a  night  and  a  day  I  havi>  been  in  the  deep."   This
last  clause  I  am  inclined  to  interpret  of  his  being
obliged  to  take  to  an  open  boat,  upon  the  loss  of
the  ship,  and   his  continuing  out  at  sea,  in  that
dangerous  situation,  a  night  and  a  day. iSt. Paul
is  here  recounting  his  surferings,  not  relating  mi-
racles. From  Tarsus,  Barnabas  brought  Paul  to
Antioch,  and  there  he  rem.iined  a  year:  but  of  the
transactions  of  that  year  no  other  description  is
given   than   what  is  contained  in  the  last  four
verses  of  the  eleventh  chapter. After  a  more
solemn  dedication  to  the  ministry. Barnabas  and
Paul  proceeded  from  Antioch  to  Cilicia,  and  from
thence  they  sailed  to  Cyprus,  of  which  voyage  no
particulars   are    mentioned. Upon  their   return
from    Cyprus,   they   made   a   progress    together
through  the  Lesser  Asia;   and  though  two  re-
markable  speeches  be  preserved,  and  a  few  in-
cidents in  the  course  of  their  travels  circumstan-
tially related,  yet  is  the  account  of  this  progress,
upon  the  whole,  given  professedly  with  concise-
ness; for  instance,  at  Iconium  it  is  said  that  they
abode  a  long  time  ;t  yet  of  this  long  abode,  except
concerning  the  manner  in  which  they  were  driven
away,  no  memoir  is  inserted  in  the  history. 