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to set forward upon nis journey to them when that business 

 was completed ? 



II. By means of the quotation which formed the subject 

 of the preceding number, we collect that the epistle to the 

 Romans w^as written at the conclusion of St. Paul's second 

 visit to the peninsula of Greece ; but this we collect, not 

 from the epistle itself, nor from any thing declared concern- 

 ing the time and place in any part of the epistle, but from a 

 comparison of circumstances referred to in the epistle, wdth 

 the order of events recorded in the Acts, and wdth references 

 to the same circumstances, though for quite different pur- 

 poses, in the two epistles to the Corinthians. Now, w^ould 

 the author of a forgery who sought to gain credit to a spuri- 

 ous letter by congruities depending upon the time and place 

 in which the letter was supposed to be WTitten, have left 

 that time and place to be made out in a manner so obscure 

 and indirect as this is ? If, therefore, coincidences of circum- 

 stances can be pointed out in this epistle depending upon its 

 date, or the place where it was written, wdiile that date and 

 place are only ascertained by other circumstances, such coin- 

 cidences may fairly be stated as iindedgned. Under this 

 head I adduce. 



Chap. 16 : 21-23 : " Timotheus my workfellow', and Lu- 

 cms, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you. ] 

 Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord 

 Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you 

 and Gluartus, a brother." With this passage I compare Acts 

 20 : 4 : "And there accompanied him into Asia, Sopater of 

 Berea ; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus ; 

 and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus 

 ind Trophimus." The epistle to the Romans, w^e have 

 seen, was written just before St. Paul's departure from 

 Greece, after his second visit to that peninsula ; the persons 

 rnsntioned in the quotation from the Acts are those who 

 accompanied him in that departure. Of seven whoso names 

 are joined in the salutation of the churcb of Rome, tliree 



