Luke records two visits of the Apostle Paul to Galatia ; and in a previous missionary tour he had passed through the southern border of the Roman province to Iconium and Antioch (Acts xiv. 21). Silas accompanied him on his first visit to Galatia proper, which Luke terms rip Petal-40p, xdqxtv, that is, the region of the Galli,' not including those districts which were now politically united with it (Acts xvi. 6 ; Conybeare and Howson, i. 292). No town is mentioned ; but the probability is he visited Ancyra, the capital, and numerous other places, for it appears Ile founded churches.' He was received everywhere with readiness and hospi tality (Gal. iv. 15). He was evidently suffering at the time from sickness ; and lie bears grateful tes timony to the kindness of the people (verses 13, 14). The changeableness of their character and views was soon exhibited, however, in abandoning the sound doctrine of the apostle, and adopting some new one (i. 6). When among them, he tells us, they received him as an angel of God ;' but no sooner had he departed than they were led to re gard him as an enemy ' (iv. 14-16). Of hig 3zconti
missionary journey to the region of Galatia,' we have no details farther than that Ile went over all the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order ' (Acts xviii. 23). It would seem from these facts that the Epistle to the Galatians was addressed to those churches which Paul had established among the Galli, and the Greek-speaking population of Ga. lat ia proper. Peter's first epistle is addressed to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia ' (I Pet. i. 1). Every place named is a Roman province ; and we may, therefore, conclude that the Apostle refers to the extended province as described by Ptolemy.
The best work on the Galli is that of Thierry, Histoire des Ganlois. For the geography of Ga latia consult Livy, xxxviii ; Ptolemy, v. 4 ; Strabo, xii. and xiii. ; Conybeare and Howson's Life and Epistles of St. Paul, i. 26i, ; Hamilton's Re searches in Asia L. P.