72 HOR^ PAULIN.^ 



me and Siivauus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay ; bal 

 in him was yea." I do admit that the correspondency, 

 considered by itself, is too direct and obvious ; and that an 

 impostor with the history before him might, and probably 

 would, produce agreements of the same kind. But let it be 

 remembered, that this reference is found in a writing whi; h, 

 from many discrepancies, and especially from those noted 

 No. II., we may conclude, was not composed by any one 

 who had consalted, and who pursued the history. Some 

 observation also arises upon the variation of the name. We 

 read Silas in the Acts, Silvanus in the epistle. The simili- 

 tude of these two names, if they were the names of different 

 persons, is greater than could easily have proceeded from 

 accident ; I mean, that it is not probable that two persons 

 placed in situations so much alike, should bear names so 

 nearly resembling each other. ^ On the other hand, the 

 difference of the name in the two passages negatives the 

 supposition of the passages, or the account contained in them, 

 being transcribed either from the other. 



VIII. Chap. 2:12, 13: "When I came to Troas to 

 preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me ol 

 the Lord, I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not 

 Titus my brother ; hut taking my leave of them, I went 

 from thence into Macedonia." 



To establish a conformity between this passage and the 

 history, nothing more is necessary to be presumed, than that 

 St. Paul proceeded from Ephesus to Macedonia, upon the 

 same course by which he came back from Macedonia to 

 Ephesus, or rather to Miletus, in the neighborhood of Ephe- 

 sus ; in other words, that in his journey to the peninsula of 

 Greece, he w^ent and returned the same way. St. Paul is 

 now in Macedonia, where he had lately arrived from Ephe 

 sus. Our quotation imports that in his journey he had stop- 

 ped at Troas. Of this the history says nothing, leaving us 



* That Ihcy were the same persons is farther confiimed by 1 The 39 

 1:1, compared with Acts 17 : 10. 



