NT Galatians of France not Asia Minor

As we've shown in other historical studies Asia Minor Galatia was a colony of Celtic Gaul. Yet perhaps some of Paul's trips to Galatia may need to be re-written to mean France's Galatia, not Turkey's under the following information. There is much more, but this is an interesting quote we wanted to share for today. We know the scriptures say he went to Greece, Italy (Rome), and Spain. To make that travel to Spain he would have had to go through Gaul France.

It is interesting the churches of Vienne and Mayence in southern France claim Crescens as their founder, which would support 2 Tmothy 4:10 as meaning southern France rather than Galatia in Asia Minor. Archbishop Ussher, referring to Paul’s reference to Crescens in 2 Timothy 4:10, states that Paul meant Galatia of southern France.

The Apostle Philip’s major activity was in Gaul (present day France) according to Isidore, the Archbishop of Serville in his HISTORIA, written about 600AD. This is also verified in the writings of Baronius, Archbishop Ussher, and many others.

The map on the next page shows the extent of the Roman Empire and the excellent, hard surfaced road system available to travelers in the time of Paul and Joseph of Arimathea. It has been photographically reproduced from THE STORY OF THE ANCIENT NATIONS, published in 1912 by William L. Westermann, Associate Professor in History at the University of Wisconsin, as a High School text-book. (notice how you could travel literally anywhere, quite easily. By horse carriage you could travel from the British Channel to Palestine *Israel* within a couple of days in Jesus’ days. Explains more where he was during his missing 18 years![/u])

The first century Jewish historian offers us a most interesting comment on these northern tribes of Israel in his momumental work, The Antiquities of the Jews:

"Wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers" (11.133).