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brethren?" I conclude, therefore, that Timothy had lefl 

 St. Paul to proceed upon his journey before the letter was 

 written. Further, the passage before us seems to imply that 

 Timothy was not expected by St. Paul to arrive at Corinth 

 till after they had received the letter. He gives them direc- 

 lions in the letter how to treat him when he should arrive " 

 *' If he come," act towards him so and so. Lastly, the whole 

 form of expression is most naturally applicable to the sup- 

 position of Timothy's coming to Corinth, not directly from 

 St. Paul, but from some other quarter ; and that his instruc- 

 tions had been, when he should reach Corinth, to return. 

 Now, how stands this matter in the history ? Turn to the 

 nineteenth chapter and twenty-first verse of the Acts, and 

 you will find that Timothy did not, when sent from Ephe- 

 sus, where he left St. Paul and where the present epistle 

 was written, proceed by a straight course to Corinth, but 

 that he Mcnt round through Macedonia. This clears up 

 every thing ; for, although Timothy was sent forth upon his 

 journey before the letter was written, yet he might not reach 

 Corinth till after the letter arrived there ; and he would 

 come to Corinth, when he did come, not directly from St. 

 Paul at Ephesus, but from some part of Macedonia. Here, 

 therefore, is a circumstantial and critical agreement, and 

 unquestionably without design; for neither of the two pas- 

 sages in the epistle mentions Timothy's journey into Mace- 

 donia at all, though nothing but a circuit of that kind 

 can explain and reconcile the expressions which the writer 

 uses. 



Y. Chap. 1:12: "Now this I say, that every one of you 

 saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos ; and I of Cephas ; 

 and I of Christ." 



Also, chap. 3:6: "I. have planted, Apollos watered; 

 but God gave the increase." 



This expression, " I have planted, Apollos watered," im- 

 ports two things : first, that Paul had been at Corinth be- 

 fore Apollos ; secondly, that Apollos had been at Oorintb 



