62 IIOR^ PAULINA 



II In comparing the second epistle to the Corinthians 

 with the Acts of the Apostles, we are soon brought to ob- 

 serve, not only that there exists no vestige either of the epistle 

 having been taken from the history, or the history from the 

 epistle ; but also that there appears in the contents of the 

 epistle; positive evidence that neither w^as borrowed from 

 the other. Titus, who bears a conspicuous part in the 

 epistle, is not mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles at all. 

 St. Paul's sufferings enumerated, chap. 11 : 24, "Of the 

 Jews five times received I forty stripes save one, thrice was 

 I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered ship- 

 wreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep," cannot 

 be made out from his history as delivered in the Acts ; nor 

 would this account have been given by a writer who either 

 drew his knowledge of St Paul from that history, or who 

 was careful to preserve a conformity with it. The account 

 in the epistle of St. Paul's escape from Damascus, though 

 agreeing in the main fact with the account of the same 

 transaction in the Acts, is related with such difference of 

 circumstance, as renders if utterly improbable that one should 

 be derived from the other. The two accounts placed by the 

 side of each other, stand as follows : 



2 Cor. 11:32, 33: "InDamas- Acts9:23-25: "And after ^l; at 



cus the governor under Aretas the many days were fulfilled, the J cws 



king kept the city of the Damas- took counsel to kill him. But their 



cenes with a garrison, desirous to laying wait was known of Saul, 



apprehend me : and through a And they watched the gates day 



window in a basket was I let dcwn and night to kill him. Then the 



by the v/all, and escaped his disciples took him by night, and let 



hands." him down by the wall in a basket." 



Now, if we be satisfied in general concerning these twc 

 ancient writings, that the one was not known to the writcn 

 of the other, or not consulted by him, then the accordanc^t 



istered by us : providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the 

 L(rd, but also in the sight of men;" that is, not resting in the con- 

 sciousness of our own integrity, but in such a subject, careful alsr 

 approve our integrity to the public judgment. 2 Cor. 8 : 18-iJ. 



