this message had extended far and wide and had been distinctly heard, so that the matter did not need to be published and extolled by him. He says that the report of their conversion had obtained great renown everywhere. When he mentions what kind of reception they gave him, he refers to the power of the Spirit, by which God had adorned and magnificently attested his Gospel. He says, however, that both things are freely reported among other nations as things worthy of mention. In the