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what I had founded ; to perfect what I had begun. 

 I left thee to reside in Crete, (as I besought Ti- 

 mothy to abide at Ephesus, isr^ocr/xavai,) to be resi- 

 dent there, as fixed and ordinary governor of that 

 church, while I went on still to preach the Gospel 

 in other regions, where the name of Christ had 

 not been heard. In fine, for this cause was he 

 left, that he should perform such special acts, 

 (ordain elders and reform what was amiss,) and 

 therefore certainly left commissioned, and autho- 

 rized after the Apostolical guise, to do those acts, 

 viz. by imposition of hands and episcopal ordina- 

 tion : which is a true gloss, though of a pseudo 

 Ambrose y^ Titiim Apostolus consecravit Episcopum: 

 and backed by Theophylact, and others amongst 



the Grecians, 'ETrtVKOTro? rH K/orirnj X£p^«^OT0i/»]TO. 



But it will best appear what the power was in 

 the conveyance, (and consequently what the con- 

 veyance itself,) by taking notice, what it was to 

 be in the exercise of it : and so I go on to the 

 second part of my text, in which we find it de- 

 signed to a double act, — to order and to ordain ; 



^'E^n§^op^^v aoci noes' ifccvoci. 



1. In the first there will be some variety. For 

 'ETTttJ^io^Oav, being properly to -[ correct, or ??iake 

 straight that which is crooked; (not that which is 

 wanting, to which it seems not to have so just a 

 rapport ;) and ra Af/Troi/Ta, being, in the next notion, 

 those things which are wanting (and, therefore, 



* In Titum. t Vide Sulteti Obss. in Tit. 1. c. 2. 



