[13.19] Euseb. _Chron._ at the year 43; _Hist. Eccl._ iii. 22. Ignatii _Epist. ad Antioch._ (apocr.) 7. [13.20] I. Cor. xiv. entire. [13.21] II. Cor. xii. 1-5. [13.22] It places this vision fourteen years before he wrote the second Epistle to the Corinthians, which dates about the year 57. It is not impossible, however, that he was still at Tarsus. [13.23] For Jewish ideas about the heavens, see _Testam. des 12 patr._ Levi. 3; _Ascension d'Isaïe_, vi. 13; viii. 8, and all the rest of the book; Talm. of Babyl., _Chagiga_ 12 b.; Midraschim _Bereschith rabba_, sect. xix. fol. 19 c.; _Schemoth rabba_, sect. xv. fol. 115 d.; _Bammiabar rabba_, sect, xiii fol. 218 a.; _Debarim rabba_, sect. ii. fol. 253 a.; _Schir hasschirim rabba_, fol. 24 d. [13.24] Comp. Talmud of Babylon, _Chagiga_, 14 b. [13.25] Comp. _Ascension d'Isaïe_, vi. 15; vii. 3, &c. [13.26] II. Cor. xii. 12; Rom. xv. 19. [13.27] I. Cor. xii. entire. [13.28] _Acts_ xi. 29; xxiv. 17; Gal. ii. 10; Rom. xv. 26; I. Cor. xvi. 1; II. Cor. viii. 4, 14; ix. 1, 12. [13.29] Jos. _Ant._ XVIII., vi., 3, 4; XX., v. 2. [13.30] James ii. 5, &c. [13.31] _Acts_ xi. 28; Jos. _Ant._ XX., ii. 6; v. 2; Euseb. _Hist. Eccl._ ii. 8, 12. Comp. _Acts_ xii. 20; Tac. Ann. xii. 43; Suet. _Claud._ 18; Dion Cass. lx. 11. Aurelius Victor, Cas., 4; Euseb. _Chron._ year 43, &c. The reign of Claudius was afflicted almost every year by partial famines. [13.32] _Acts_ xi. 27, &c. [13.33] The book of _Acts_ (xi. 30; xii. 25) includes Paul in this journey. But Paul declares that between his first sojourn of two weeks and his journey for the affair of the circumcision, he did not visit Jerusalem. (Gal. ii. 1.) See Introduction. [13.34] Gal. i., 17-19. [13.35] _Acts_ xiii. 3; xv. 36; xviii. 23. [13.36] Ibid. xiv. 25; xviii. 22. CHAPTER XIV. [14.1] The inscriptions of these countries fully confirm the indications of Josephus. (Comptes Rendus de l'Acad. des Inscr. _I. B. L._, 1865. pp. 106, 109.) [14.2] Josephus, _Ant._ xix. iv. _B. J._, ii. xi. [14.3] _Ib._ xix. v. i.; vi. i.; _B. J._, II. xi. 5; Dion Cassius, LX. 8. [14.4] Dion Cassius, LIX. 24. [14.5] Jos. _Ant._ xix. ix. 1. [14.6] Ibid. XIX. vi. 1, 3; ii. 3, 4; viii. 2; ix. 1. [14.7] Ibid. XIX. vii. 4. [14.8] Ibid. XIX. vi. 3. [14.9] Juvenal, Sat. vi. 158, 159; Persius, Sat. v. 180. [14.10] Philo. _In Flaccum_, §5, and following. [14.11] Jos. _Ant._ XIX. v. 2, and sequel; xx. vi. 3.; _B. J._, II. xii. 7. The restrictive measures which he took against the Jews of Rome (_Acts_ xviii. 2; Suetonius _Claude_, 25; Dion Cassius, LX. 6) were connected with local circumstances. [14.12] Jos. _Ant._ xix. vi. 3.