^8 HOR^ PAULlNiE. 



in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and 

 A.chaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying. After I have been there. 

 I must also see Rome." 



Let it be observed, that our epistle purports to have been 

 written at the conclusion of St. Paul's second journey into 

 Greece ; that the quotation from the Acts contains words 

 said to have been spoken by St. Paul at Ephesus, some time 

 before he set forward upon that journey. Now I contend 

 that it is impossible that two independent fictions should 

 have attributed to St. Paul the same purpose ; especially a 

 purpose so specific and particular as this, which was not 

 merely a general design of visiting Rome after he had passed 

 through Macedonia and Achaia, and after he had performed 

 a voyage from those countries to Jerusalem. The conform- 

 ity between the history and the epistle is perfect. In the 

 first quotation from the epistle, we find that a design of vis- 

 iting Rome had long dwelt in the apostle's mind : in the 

 quotation from the Acts, we find that design expressed a 

 considerable time before the epistle was written. In the 

 history we find that the plan which St. Paul had formed 

 was, to pass through Macedonia and Achaia, after that to 

 go to Jerusalem, and when he had finished his visit there 

 to sail for Rome. "When the epistle was written he had 

 executed so much of his plan as to have passed through 

 Macedonia and Achaia, and was preparing to pursue the 

 remainder of it, by speedily setting out towards Jerusalem ; 

 and in this point of his travels he tells his friends at Rome, 

 that when he had completed the business Vv^hich carried 

 him to Jerusalem, he would come to them. Secondly, I say 

 that the very inspection of the passages will satisfy us that 

 they were not made up from one another. 



" Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I \vil come 

 to you ; for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be 

 brought on my way thHherward by you. But now I go up 

 unto Jerusalem, to minister unto the saints. When, there- 

 fore, I have performed this, and have sealed to them thi# 



