The motives, which gave birth to this act of perfidy and hostility, will now be visible enough, to every eye, that dares to open itself to them. At the time in question, they were too manifest to need mentioning: and at the same time too unjustifiable, to bear to be mentioned by his dependent historian, when speaking of the opposition, which, even on the part of his own dependents, it produced. They besought him--with tears they besought him: but, as to the reflections by which these tears were produced, they could not bear the light: it was not for a declared adherent to give them utterance. The sort of colour, put upon the project by Paul, with the help of one of his phrases--this was the only colour that could be found for it. It was for the _name_ of the Lord Jesus, Acts 21:13, that he was ready--"ready, not to be bound only, but also to die." For the name? O, yes, for the name at all times; for, in the name of Jesus, he beheld from first to last his necessary support: and of the Lord Jesus, nothing, as we shall find,--nothing from first to last, did he ever employ but the name. But, to be bound at Jerusalem--to die at Jerusalem--to be bound--to die--supposing this to take place,--where--to the religion of Jesus--would be, where could be, the use of it? There, at Jerusalem, the Apostles--the real Apostles of Jesus:--executing, without either dying or being bound for it, the commission, which to them had been really given by Jesus. SECTION 5. OPPOSITION MADE TO IT BY THE APOSTLES AND THEIR DISCIPLES. Thus indefensible and deplorable, in the eyes even of his own dependents,--it may be imagined in what light the invasion presented itself at Jerusalem, to those who found themselves so cruelly menaced by it. At the first place, at which, after a voyage of some length, they landed on their way to Judea,--they found the alarm already spread. This place was Tyre: there they found "disciples," Acts 21:4, "who said to Paul," and "through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem." It was through _their spirit_, that they bade him not to go; but _his revelation_, as we have seen, bade him to go, notwithstanding:--his revelation was too strong for their spirit. If it was from the _Lord Jesus_, as he all along informs us, that his revelation came, while their spirit was the _Holy Spirit_, otherwise called the _Holy Ghost_,--already another schism was produced: a schism, in a council still higher than that of the Apostles. At Ptolemais, on the road from Tyre to Jerusalem, they stayed but one day: Acts 21:7, not long enough, it should seem, for any fresh marks of opposition to this enterprise to manifest themselves.