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coming of Titus." These two passages plainly relate to the 

 same journey of Titus, in meeting with whom St. Paul had 

 been disappointed at Troas, and rejoiced in Macedonia. And 

 among other reasons which fix the former passage to the 

 coming of Titus out of Greece, is the consideration, that it 

 was nothing to the Corinthians that St. Paul did not meet 

 with Titus at Troas, were it not that he was to bring intel- 

 ligence from Corinth. The mention of the disappointment 

 in this place, upon any other supposition, is irrelative. 



IX. Chap. 11 : 24, 25 : " Of the Jews five times receiv- 

 ed I forty stripes save one, thrice was I beaten with rods, 

 once was I fetoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and 

 a day I have been in the deep." 



These particulars cannot be extracted out of the Acts of 

 the Apostles, which proves, as has been already observed, 

 that the epistle was not framed from the history ; yet they 

 are consistent with it, which, considering how numerically 

 circumstantial the account is, is more than could happen to 

 arbitrary and independent fictions. When I say that these 

 particulars are consistent with the history, I mean, first, 

 that there is no article in the enumeration which is contra- 

 dicted by the history; secondly, that the history, though 

 silent with respect to many of the facts here enumerated, 

 has left space for the existence of these facts, consistent with 

 the fidelity of its own narration. 



First, no contradiction is discoverable between the epistle 

 and the history. When St. Paul says, thrice was I beaten 

 with rods, although the history record only mie beating with 

 rods, namely, at Philippi, Acts 16 : 22, yet there is no con- 

 tradiction. It is only the omission in one book of what is 

 related in another. But had the history contained accounts 

 oi four beatings with rods, at the time of writing this epis- 

 tle, in which St. Paul says that he had only suffered three, 

 there would have been a contradiction properly so called. 

 The same observation applies generally to the other parts of 

 the enumeration concerning which the history is silent . h^i 



