I.U4 HOR/E PAULINA'. 



was written by another hand. I do not thmk it improbable 

 that an impostor, who had remarked this subscription in 

 some other epistle, should invent the same in a forgery ; 

 but that is not done here. The author of this epistle does 

 not imitate the manner of giving St. Paul's signature ; he 

 only bids the Galatians observe how large a letter he had 

 written to them with his own hand. He does not say th'S 

 was different from his ordinary usage ; this is left to impli- 

 cation. Now, to suppose that this was an artifice to procure 

 credit to an imposture, is to suppose that the author of the 

 forgery, because he knew that others of St. Paul's were not 

 written by himself, therefore made the apostle say that this 

 was ; which seems an odd turn to give to the circumstance, 

 and to be given for a purpose which would more naturally 

 and more directly have been answered by subjoining the 

 salutation or signature in the form in which it is found in 

 other epistles. =^ 



X. An exact conformity appears in the manner in which 

 a certain apostle or eminent Christian whose name was 

 James, is spoken of in the epistle and in the history. Both 

 writings refer to a situation of his at Jerusalem, somewhat 

 different from that of the other apostles ; a kind of eminence 

 or presidency in the church there, or at least a more fixed 

 md stationary residence. Chap. 2 : 11, 12. " When Peter 

 was at Antioch, .... before that certain came from James, 

 he did eat with the Gentiles." This text plainly attributes 

 a kind of preeminency to James ; and, as we hear of him 

 twice in the same epistle, dwelling at Jerusalem, chap. 

 1:19, and 2:9, we must apply it to the situation which he 

 held in that church. In the Acts of the Apostles, divers 



* The words irTjliKOig ypaftfiaoiv may probably be meant to describe 

 the character in which he wrote, and not the length of the letter. But 

 this will not alter the truth of our observation. I think, however, 

 that a? St. Paul by the mention of his own hand designed to express 

 to the Galatians the great concern which he felt for them, the words, 

 whatever they signify, belong to the whole of the epistle j and not, aa 

 G-rotius, after St. Jerome, interprets it, to the few verses which foUow 



