FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINT HI AI^ S. [\. 



elders of the church of Ephcsus to meet him at Mlktus, 

 and in th'? discourse which he there addressed to thorn, 

 amidst some other reflections which he calls to their remem- 

 brance, we find the following: "I have coveted no man's 

 silver, or gold, or apparel. Yea, ye yourselves know, tl at 

 these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to 

 them that were with me." The reader will not forget to 

 remark, that though St. Paul be now at Miletus, it is to the 

 ciders of the church of Ephesus he is speaking, when he 

 says, " Ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered 

 unto my necessities ;" and that the whole discourse relates 

 to his conduct during his last preceding residence at Ephe- 

 sus. That manual labor, therefore, which he had exercised 

 at Corinth, he continued at Ephesus ; and not only so, but con- 

 tinued it during that particular residence at Ephesus, near 

 the conclusion of which this epistle was written ; so that he 

 might with the strictest truth say, at the time of writing 

 the epistle, " Eve?i unto this prese?it Jiour we labor, work- 

 ing with our own hands." The correspondency is suflicient. 

 Then, as to the undesignedness of it : it is manifest, to my 

 judgment, that if the history in this article had been taken 

 from the epistle, this circumstance, if it appeared at all, 

 would have appeared in its place, that is, in the direct ac- 

 count of St. Paul's transactions at Ephesus. The corre- 

 spondency would not have been eflected, as it is, by a kind 

 of reflected stroke, that is, by a reference in a subsequent 

 speech to what in the narrative was omitted. Nor is it 

 likely, on the other hand, that a circumstance which is not 

 extant in the history of St. Paul at Ephesus, should have 

 been made the subject of a factitious allusion in an epistle 

 purporting to be written by him from that place ; not to men- 

 tion that the allusion itself, especially as to time, is too obliquo 

 dnd general to answer any purpose of forgery whatever. 



YII. Chap. 9 : 20 : "And unto the Jews I became as a 

 Jew, that I might gain the Jews ; to them that are undei 

 the law, as under the law." 



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