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upon his second visit into Greece, would easily think of tlie 

 expedient of putting in the names of those persons who ap- 

 peared to be with St. Paul, at the time as an obvious recom- 

 mendation of the imposture, I then repeat my observations, 

 first, that he would have made the catalogue more complete ; 

 and secondly, that with this contrivance in his thoughts, it 

 was certainly his business, in order to avail himself of the 

 artifice, to have stated in the body of the epistle that Paul 

 was in Greece when he wrote it, and that he was there upon 

 his second visit ; neither of which he has done, either directly, 

 or even so as to be discoverable by any circumstance found 

 in the narrative delivered in the Acts. 



Under the same head, namely, of coincidences depend- 

 ing upon date, I cite from the epistle, chap. 16 : 3, the fol- 

 lowing salutation : " Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my helpers 

 in Christ Jesus ; who have for my life laid down their own 

 necks : unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the 

 churches of the Gentiles." It appears from the Acts of the 

 Apostles, that Priscilla and Aquila had originally been in- 

 habitants of E-ome; for we read. Acts 18 : 2, that Paul 

 " found a certain Jew, named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately 

 come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, (because that 

 Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome.'') 

 They were connected, therefore, with the place to which 

 the salutations are sent. That is one coincidence ; another 

 is the following : St. Paul became acquainted with these 

 persons at Corinth, during his first visit into Greece. They 

 accompanied him. upon his return into Asia ; Avere settled 

 for some time at Ephesus, Acts 18 : 19-26 ; and appear to 

 have been with St. Paul when he wrote from that place his 

 first epistle to the Corinthians, 1 Cor. 16 : 19; not long 

 after the writing of which epistle St. Paul went from Eph- 

 esus into Macedonia, and, " after he had gone over those 

 parts," proceeded from thence upon his second visit into 

 Greece ; during which visit, or rather at the conclusion of it, 

 the epistle to the Horaans, as has been shown, was written 



