“I no longer have any room for work in these regions,” said the apostle Paul.
Come again? That’s a perplexing statement.
The regions to which Paul refers are, after
all, pretty large. He says he has preached to Gentiles “from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum”. At its widest, Illyricum included all the territory west of Macedonia and east
of Italy extending south as far as Epirus and north through the Balkans almost
to the Danube (see map).