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not so aptly said to be corrected, as supplied or 

 added): For the according of the terms, I cannot 

 see why the participle may not have as powerful 

 influence upon the verb, (to qualify that,) as that 

 upon the participle ; and shall, therefore, make 

 this advantage of the doubt, to take in the consi- 

 deration of both senses, and suppose that Titus is 

 here commissioned, both to supply what was 

 wanting, and to correct what was amiss. 



First, To supply what ivas wanting. And then 

 the nerve and emphasis of the verb will lie in the 

 preposition ; 'EttiSio^^^v, to do something addition- 

 ally, and by way of supplement to what was 

 done before, but was not sufficient. Ta £AA«7rovTa 

 duocTrXn^uG-oci, as St. Chrysostom,* to Jill up the va- 

 cuities and defects that were left, which probably 

 were not a few in Crete, especially a church so 

 lately founded, (but t the year before,) and in 

 which St. Paul stayed so short a time, in which 

 long works could not be brought about. Neither 

 let any church, though of longer continuance, 

 flatter and sooth up itself, with Laodicea, J as if it 

 needed nothing. The ship of the church is never 

 so perfectly rigged but something may be added. 

 'Tis seldom, or never, but some pin or other is lack- 

 ing, even in God's Tabernacle, while it sojourns 

 here below, just as in the material church ; 'tis 

 scarce known, but either the roof is open, or the 



* Homil. 1. t Vide Baron. Ann. 58. 



X Apoc. 3. 17. 



Y 2 



