48 HOE,iE PAULINA. 



ihe occasions and purposes for which the name of Apollos is. 

 introduced in the Acts and in the epistles are so independent 

 and so remote, that it is impossible to discover the smallest 

 reference from one to the other. Apollos is mentioned in 

 the Acts, in immediate connection with the history of Aquila 

 and Priscilla, and for the very singular circumstance of his 

 " knowing only the baptism of John." In the epistle, where 

 none of these circumstances are taken notice of, his name 

 first occurs for the purpose of reproving the contentious 

 spirit of the Corinthians ; and it occurs only in conjunction 

 with that of some others : " Every one of you saith, I am 

 of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ/' 

 The second passage in which Apollos appears, " I have 

 planted, Apollos watered," fixes, as we have observed, the 

 order of time among three distinct events ; but it fixes this, 

 I will venture to pronounce, without the writer perceivinc» 

 that he was doing any such thing. The sentence fixes this 

 order in exact conformity with the history ; but it is itseli 

 introduced solely for the sake of the reflection v/hich fol- 

 lows : " Neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he 

 that watereth ; but God that giveth the increase." 



VI. Chap. 4: 11, 12 : "Even unto this present hour 

 we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, 

 and have no certain dweUing-place ; and labor, workino- 

 with our own hands." 



We are expressly told in the history, that at Corinth St. 

 Paul labored with his own hands : " He found Aquila and 

 Priscilla ; and because he was of the same craft, he abode 

 with them, and wrought ; for by their occupation they were 

 tent-makers." But in the text before us, he is made to 

 say, that he labored "even tmto this j^resent hour,'' that is, 

 to the time of writing the epistle at Ephesus. Now, in the 

 narration of St. Paul's transactions at Ephesus, delivered in 

 the nineteenth chapter of the Acts, nothing is said of his 

 working with his own hands ; but in the twentieth chapter 

 we read, that upon his return from Greece, he sent for th*' 



