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the manner, or in the order in which St. Paul takes notice 

 of their faults. 



II. Our epistle purports to have been written after St 

 Paul had already been at Corinth: "I, brethren, ivhen 1 

 cams to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wis 

 dom," 2:1: and in many other places to the same effect. 

 It purport.* also to have been written upon the eve of an- 

 other visit to that church : " I will come to you shortly, il 

 the Lord will," 4:19; and again, " I will come unto you, 

 when I shall pass through Macedonia." IG : 5. Now the 

 history relates that St. Paul did in fact visit Corinth twice; 

 once as recorded at length in the eighteenth, and a second 

 time as mentioned briefly in the twentieth chapter of the 

 Acts. The same history also informs us. Acts 20:1, that 

 it was from Ephesus St. Paul proceeded upon his second 

 journey into Greece. Therefore, as the epistle purports to 

 have been written a short time preceding that journey ; and 

 as St. Paul, the history tells us, had resided more than two 

 years at Ephesus before he set out upon it, it follows that it 

 must have been from Ephesus, to be consistent with the 

 history, that the epistle was written ; and every note of 

 place in the epistle agrees with this supposition. " If, after 

 the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Epheuis, 

 what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not ?" 15 : 32. I 

 allow that the apostle might say this, wherever he was ; 

 but it was more natural and more to the purpose to say it, 

 if he was at Ephesus at the time, and in the midst of those 

 conflicts to which the expression relates. " The churches 

 of Asia salute you." 16:19. Asia, throughout the Acts of 

 the Apostles, and the epistles of St. Paul, does not mean the 

 whole of Asia Minor or Anatolia, nor even the whole of the 

 proconsular Asia, but a district in the anterior part of that 

 country, called Lydian Asia, divided from the rest much as 

 Portugal is from Spain, and of which district hphesus was 

 the capital. " Aquila and Priscilla salute you." 16 : 19. 

 A.qui]a and Priscilla were at Ejohcsus during the period 



