Be this as it may,--upon his leaving Jerusalem, it was to the region of Syria and Cilicia, that, at this time, he betook himself. So, in his letter to his Galatians, he himself says, Gal. 1:21; and, by what is said in the Acts, he is not contradicted, but confirmed. By himself what is mentioned is--the _region_, viz. Syria and Cilicia: by the Acts what is mentioned is--the _cities_, viz. Cæsarea and Tarsus. Cæsarea,--whether at that time it was in Syria or not,--was, at any rate, little, if anything, out of the way, from Jerusalem to Tarsus. Cæsarea was a town upon the coast:--one among those maritime towns, which, whether parts or not of Syria, are in the way between the inland city, of Jerusalem, and the coast of Cilicia: with which coast, by a river,--Tarsus, marked in the map with the mark of a capital town, appears to communicate. In speaking of this change of place, the terms employed by Paul, are general terms,--"_I came._" By what _means_ he came, he does not mention: nor does there appear any particular reason why he should have mentioned them. In the Acts, the account is more particular:--he was, in a manner, forced from the one place to the other:--he was, at any rate, _escorted_: it was by "_the brethren_," he was so dealt with. "Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Cæsarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus." Acts 9:30. By the brethren?--Yes.--But by what brethren? By the general body of the Christians, or any that belonged to it? No:--for, it was from their wrath, that he was making his escape. No:--not by the justly exasperated many; but by such few adherents as, under such prodigious disadvantage, his indefatigable artifice and energy had found means to conciliate. SECTION 7. MODE AND CAUSE OF ITS TERMINATION. In relation to this subject, we have two, and no more than two, accounts,--both from the same pen,--that of the historiographer in the Acts; and these two accounts, as usual, contradictory of each other. The first, in the order of the history, is that given by him in his own person: Acts 9:27, 28, 29. The other, is that given by him in the person of Paul: namely, in the course of his supposed first-made and unpremeditated speech,--when, on the occasion of his last visit to Jerusalem--his Invasion Visit, he was pleading for his life before the angry multitude. Acts 22:17, 18, 19, 20, 21. Now then, let us compare the two accounts.