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rcct his attention to the clause marked by Italics, " ami 1 

 wrote this same unto you," and let him consider, whether, 

 from the context and from the structure of the whole pas- 

 sage, it he not evident that this writing was alter St. Paul 

 had " determined with himself that he would not come 

 3.gain to them in heaviness ;" wdiether, indeed, it was 

 not in consequence of this determination, or at least with 

 this determination upon his mind. And, in the next place, 

 et him consider whether the sentence, "I determined this 

 with myself, that I would not come again to you in heavi- 

 ness," do not plainly refer to that postponing of his visit to 

 which he had alluded in the verse but one before, when he 

 said, " I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare 

 you, I came not as yet unto Corinth ;" and whether this be 

 not the visit of which he speaks in the sixteenth verse, 

 wherein he informs the Corinthians, " that he had been 

 minded to pass by them into Macedonia," but that, for rea- 

 sons which argued no levity or fickleness in his disposition, 

 he had been compelled to change his purpose. If this be 

 so, then it follows that the writing here mentioned wag 

 posterior to the change of his intention. The only question 

 therefore, that remains, will be, whether this writing relate 

 to the letter which we now have under the title of the first 

 epistle to the Corinthians, or to some other letter not ex- 

 tant. And upon this question I think Mi. Locke's obser- 

 vation decisive ; namely, that the second clause marked in 

 the quotation by italics, " I wrote unto you with many 

 tears," and the first clause so marked, " I wrote this same 

 unto you," belong to one writing, whatever that was ; and 

 that the second clause goes on to advert to a circumstance 

 which is found in our present first epistle to the Corinthi- 

 iiis, namely, the case and punishment of the incestuous 

 person. Upon the whole, then, we see that it is capable 

 of being inferred from St, Paul's own words, in the long ex- 

 tract which we have quoted, that the first epistle to the Co- 

 rinthians was written after St. Paul had determined to post 



