1. On the occasion, and at the time, of his first Jerusalem Visit--his Reconciliation Visit--a sort of reconciliation--meaning at least an outward one--could not,--consistently with the whole train, of what is said of his subsequent intercourse and interviews with the Apostles,--could not but have taken place. 2. Of this reconciliation, the terms were--that, on condition of _his_ preaching in the name of Jesus,--_they_ would not, to such persons in Jerusalem and elsewhere, as were in connection with them,--_speak_ of him any longer in the character of a persecutor: for, by his disobedience and breach of trust, as towards the Jerusalem constituted authorities,--such he had put it out of his power to _be_ any longer: not speak of him as a persecutor, but, on the contrary, as an associate:--he taking up the name of Jesus: and preaching--never in his own, but on every occasion in that holy, name. 3. On this occasion,--it being manifest to both parties, that, by his intimate acquaintance with the Greek language, and with the learning belonging to that language, he was in a peculiar degree well qualified to spread the name of Jesus among the Gentiles in general;--that is, among those to whom the Jewish was not a vernacular language;--whereas their acquaintance with language was confined to their own, to wit, the Jewish language;--on this occasion, it followed of course, from the nature of the case, and almost without need of stipulation, that,--leaving to _them_, for the field of their labours, Jerusalem, and that part of the circumjacent country, in which the Jewish alone was the language of the bulk of the population,--_he_ should confine his exertions, principally if not exclusively, to those countries, of which Greek was, or at any rate Hebrew was not, the vernacular language. To him, at that time, it was not in the nature of the case, that absentation from Jerusalem, or any part of the country under the same dominion, should be matter of regret. Within that circle, he could not, for any length of time, abide publicly, for fear of the legal vengeance of the constituted authorities: nor yet among the Christians; although from their chiefs he had obtained, as above, a sort of prudential endurance; considering the horror, which his persecution of them had inspired, and the terror, with which, until his conversion had been proved in the eyes of all by experience, he could not as yet fail to be regarded. Whatever was the object of his concupiscence,--whether it were the fund--and we have seen how attractive the bait was--which, at that time, in that metropolis of the Christian world, offered itself to an ambitious eye,--still, though his opportunities had as yet confined his exertions to the _second_ city in that increasing world, his eyes never ceased looking to the _first_.