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only the short account, that " Paul departed from Ephesus. 

 for to go into Macedoiiid." But the history says, that in his 

 return from Macedonia to Ephesus, " Paul sailed from Phi- 

 lippi to Troas ; and that, when the disci])lcs came together 

 on the first day of the week to hreak bread, Paul preached 

 unto them all night ; that from Troas he went by land to 

 Asaos ; from Assos, taking ship and coasting along the front 

 of Asia Minor, he came by Mitylene to Miletus," "Which 

 account proves, first, that Troas lay in the way by which 

 St Paul passed between Ephesus and Macedonia ; second- 

 ly, that he had disciples there. In one journey between 

 these two places, the epistle, and in another 'journey be- 

 tweeji the same places, the history makes him stop at this 

 city. Of the first journey he is made to say, " that a door 

 was in that city opened unto me of the Lord ;" in the sec- 

 ond, we hnd disciples there collected around him, and the 

 apostle exercising his ministry with what was, even in him, 

 more than ordinary zeal and labor. The epistle, therefore, 

 is in this instance confirmed, if not by the terms, at least by 

 the probability of the history ; a species of confirmation by 

 no means to be despised, because, as far as it reaches, it is 

 evidently uncontrived. 



Grotius, I know, refers the arrival at Troas, to which the 

 epistle alludes, to a different period, but I think very im- 

 probably ; for nothing appears to me more certain, than that 

 the meeting with Titus, which St. Paul expected at Troas, 

 was the same meeting which took place in Macedonia, 

 namely, upon Titus's coming out of Greece. In the quota- 

 tion before us, he tells the Corinthians, ""When I came to 

 Troas, .... I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not 

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

 from thence into Macedonia." Then in the seventh chapter 

 he writes, " "When Vv^e were come into Macedonia, our flesh 

 had no rest, but we were troubled on every side ; without 

 were fightings, v/ithin were fears. Nevertheless God, that 

 comforteth then: that are cast down^ comforted us by the 

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