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of calamity, liave spread your wings over the pef^- 

 secuted prophets of God, and had a church in 

 your house when they made a stable of the 

 church. Believe it, God and his church pay their 

 quarters wherever they come, and there is not 

 one of you shall miss of his reward. 



2. Thee^ who wert so exceedingly dear, so 

 highly useful to me, *' Titus my brother, f mine 

 own son after the common faith ; two very en- 

 dearing titles : and then, so necessary to me, that 

 J when I came to Troas, to preach Christ's Gospel, 

 and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, I had 

 no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus 

 my brother ; but taking my leave, went thence 

 into Macedonia. Upon which place, with some 

 others, § St. Jerome || hath founded his conjecture, 

 that Titus was St. Paul's interpreter to the Gre- 

 cians. For, though the Apostle understood the 

 Greek language, and wrote it too elegantly enough, 

 yet ^ there might be something of uncouth and 

 barbarous in his pronunciation, which rendered it 

 not so smooth and passable to a common Greek 

 ear (which Josephus also, though ** a spruce 



* 2 Cor. ii. 12. ■ t Tit. i. 2. 



+ 2 Cor. ii. 12, 13. § 2 Cor. vii. 6. 



II Epist. 150. adHedib. qu. 11. 



^ Divinoiiim sensuum Majestatem digiio non poterat Graeci 

 eloquii explicare sermone. S. Hieron. ibid, vide et Baron, torn. i. 

 ann. 45, n. 32, &c. 



''^^ Photius. KaGa^oj ^nv (p^oi(Tiv, — xj Im^a^iq. 



