To find so much as the colour of a reason for this perfidy, was too much for the ingenuity of his attendant panegyrist. In the eyes of the whole body of his attendants, of whom the historian was one, so completely unjustifiable was his design in every point of view,--they joined in a remonstrance to him, beseeching him to give it up. ACTS 21:12 to 14. And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.--Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.--And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done. At no such loss, however, was Paul himself: for this, and for everything else it was his will to do, he had a reason ready made. It was no less concise and economical than convenient: a word, and no more than a word, was the price paid for it:--_revelation_ was that word.[50] So he assures his "foolish" Galatians: and if they were foolish enough to believe it, these, though first, have not been last, in the career of foolishness. Allow a man but the use of this one word, so it be in the sense in which Paul here uses it--admit the matter of fact, of which it contains the assertion,--the will of that man is not only sufficient reason, but sufficient law, for everything: in all places, and to all persons, his will is law. The will of this man is the will of that God, by whom this revelation of it has been made to him: the will of God, what man shall be audacious enough to dispute?