Acts 18:23

Went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia - Both were provinces of Asia Minor: see on Acts 2:10 ; (note).

In order - Καθεξης , A word peculiar to St. Luke; see his Gospel, Luke 1:3 ; Luke 8:1 ; and his history of the Acts, Acts 3:24 ; Acts 11:4 , and the place above; the only places where this word occurs in the New Testament. It properly signifies, in order, distinctly, particularly; from κατα , according to, and ἑξη , order, as opposed to confusion, indistinctness, etc. If St. Paul went up to Jerusalem at this time, which we are left to infer, for Luke has not expressed it, ( Acts 18:22 ;), it was his fourth journey thither; and this is generally supposed to have been the twenty-first year after his conversion. His first journey is mentioned Acts 9:26 ; his second, Acts 11:30 ; his third, Acts 15:4 ; and his fourth, Acts 18:22 , the place above.