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passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem ; 

 saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. So 

 he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto 

 him, Timotheus and Erastus." 



Though it be not said, it appears I think with sufficient 

 certainty, I mean from the history independently of the 

 epistle, that Timothy was sent upon this occasion into 

 Achaia, of which Corinth was the capital city, as well as 

 into Macedonia ; for the sending of Timothy and Erastus is, 

 in the passage where it is mentioned, plainly connected with 

 St. Paul's own journey : he se7it them before him. As he 

 therefore purposed to go into Achaia himself, it is highly 

 probable that they were to go thither also. Nevertheless, 

 they are said only to have been sent into Macedonia, be- 

 cause Macedonia was in truth the country to which they 

 went immediately from Ephesus ; being directed, as w^e sup- 

 pose, to proceed afterwards from thence into Achaia, IJ 

 this be so, the narrative agrees with the epistle ; and the 

 agreement is attended w^ith very little appearance of design, 

 One thing at least concerning it is certain ; that if this pas- 

 sage of St. Paul's history had been taken from his letter, it 

 would have sent Timothy to Corinth by name, or expressly 

 however into Achaia. 



But there is another circumstance in these two passages 

 much less obvious, in which an agreement holds without 

 any room for suspicion that it was produced by design. We 

 have observed that the sending of Timothy into the penin- 

 sula of Greece was connected in the narrative with St. 

 Paul's own journey thither ; it is stated as the effect of the 

 same resolution. Paul purposed to go into Macedonia ; "so 

 he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto 

 him, Timotheus and Erastus." Now in the epistle also vou 

 remark, that when the apostle mentions his having sent 

 Timothy unto them, in the very next sentence he speaks of 

 his own visit : " For this cause have I sent unto you Timo- 

 theus, who is my beloved son," etc. " Now some are puffed 



