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laetabilis fuit, c.IV. 14. if. poftillumautemdeplo-ratione dignus reddituseft. Nam plurimi verfutiapfevdapoftolorum de evangelio Jefu Chrifti a Paulopraedicati, fe abduci paffi funt, c I. 6. 7. III. r.& invaluerunt lites, c. V. if. voluptates, v. 16.& ambitio, v. 26. &cumresGalatarum inhocftatueffent, fcripfit Paulus ad illos hanc epiftolam.II. Locvs scriptionis. Exarata eft hsccepiftola a Paulo probabiliter Troade. Nam fcriptaeft, poftquam Paulus in Galatia ecclefiasplantave-rat, vid. Gal. I. 6. III, 1. fqq. IV. 19. easque riga-verat, c. IV. 13.& proindevel Epb>fi, quam,riga-tione hac peracla, adiit, Adt.XVIII. 23. XIX. t.velin Macedonia & Gr<ecia, Act.XX. r.2.vel Troade,v. 6, vel Cefare<z, XXI. 8. vel Hterofolym<e. v. 17.Iqq. Verum nonEphefi, nam fi eotempore, quoPaulus in hac urbe degit, Galatse Chriftum defe-ruilfent, fine dubio illos adiilfet, & res eorumcol-lapfas in integrum reftituereoperam deduTet; ne-que in MacedoniatfGr<ecia, naminhisregionibusquosdam modomenfes tranfegit, cumqueGalatiatot milliaria ab iisdem diftet, procul dubio in illisdegens famam de defeclione Galatarum non per-cepit; neque Hierofolyma in vinculis, nam aliaspro more illorum mcminiflet; neque Cefare<e,nam haec urbsproculabeftaGalatia, &idcircononprobabile eft, Paulum demum Gefareae de defe-dione Galatarum fpirituali cerciorem faclumetfe;& proinde Treade, quam adiit, poftquamex Ma-cedonia, in quam Ephefo relicla profe&us eratjHierofolymam contenderet. Procul dubio PaulusTroadem veniens, a fidelibus percepit, Galataspfevdapoftolis morem geflifle, legemqueceremo-nialem fufcepifle, cumque Paulus per revelationesdivinas certior facluselfet, fe Hierofolymsein vin-cula datum iri, Act, XX. 21. 22. & proindefehacX i vire