2. By the _Invasion Visit_ is here meant--that visit of Paul to Jerusalem, by which his arrestation, and consequent visit to Rome in a state of confinement, were produced. _Invasion_ it may well be termed: the object of it having manifestly been--the making, in that original metropolis of the Christian world, spiritual conquests, at the expense of the gentle sway of the Apostles: spiritual acquisitions--not to speak of their natural consequences, temporal ones. It was undertaken, as will be seen, in spite of the most strenuous exertions, made for the prevention of it: made, not only by those, whose dominions he was so needlessly invading, but by the unanimous remonstrances and entreaties of his own adherents. The date--assigned to the commencement of this visit, is A.D. 60. Interval, between this his last recorded visit and his first, according to the received chronology, 22 years. Neither of the occasion of it, nor of any individual occurrence which took place in the course of it, have we any account--from any other source than the history of the Acts. Paul's account is all in generals. 3. Paul's Jerusalem Visit the Second.--According to the Acts, Acts 11:30, "which also they did, and sent it to the Elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul," between these two indisputable interviews of Paul's with the Apostles occurs another visit, herein designated by the name of the _Money-bringing Visit_. Under the apprehension of a predicted dearth, money is sent from the Antioch to the Jerusalem saints. Barnabas, and with him Paul, are employed in the conveyance of it. Time, assigned to this Visit, A.D. 43. Of this visit, not any the least trace is to be found in any Epistle of Paul's. Yet, in this Epistle of his to his Galatians, he will be seen undertaking in a manner, to give an account, of every visit of his to Jerusalem, in which, with reference to spiritual dominion, between himself and the Apostles, anything material had ever passed. By this silence of Paul's, no counter-evidence is opposed, to the account given of this visit in the Acts. What may very well be is,--that he went along with the money, and departed, without having had any personal communication with any Apostle, or even with any one of their disciples. 4. _Deputation Visit._ Paul's Jerusalem Visit the Third--say his Deputation Visit. According to the Acts,[22] Paul being at the Syrian Antioch, certain men came thither from Judea, teaching, that Mosaic circumcision is necessary to Christian salvation. Dissension being thus produced, Paul, and Barnabas as usual with him, are dispatched to confer on this subject with the Apostles and the Elders--Time, assigned to this visit, A.D. 52. Interval between the first and this third visit--years 15. In addition to the first Jerusalem Visit, mentioned as above by Paul, to wit, in the first chapter of his Epistle to his Galatians,--in the second, mention is made of another.