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Nobody seems to have noticed the significance of the locations in St Paul’s missionary journey other than to note that there were Jewish communities in those locations. Paul was evidently on a millennial mission in his promotion of Christianity. In fact he seems to have deliberately chosen to focus his efforts upon locations which had been at the centre of previous catastrophic episodes. Indeed his own city Tarsus was just some 96.5 km (60 miles) from Corycus where the famed Cilician cave, the bed of the giant Typhon or Typhoeus, was located. Pomponius Mela wrote as follows: § 1.76 Farther on is another cave, which they call the Cave of Typhon, with a narrow mouth and a very tight squeeze