114 HORiE PAULlWiE. 



same arguments, or more properly speaking, illustrated by 

 the same similitudes :^ " one head," "one body," " one new 

 man," "one temple," are in both epistles the figures under 

 which the society of believers in Christ, and their common 

 relation to him as such, are represented.! The ancient, and, 

 as had been thought, the indelible distinction between Jew 

 and Gentile, in both epistles, is declared to be " now abol- 

 ished by his cross." Besides this consent in the general tenor 

 of the two epistles, and in the run also and warmth ol 

 thought with which they are composed, we may naturally 

 expect, in letters produced under the circumstances in which 

 these appear to have been written, a closer resemblance of 

 style and diction, than between other letters of the same 

 person but of distant dates, or between letters adapted to dif- 

 ferent occasions. In particular, we may look for many of 

 the same expressions, and sometimes for whole sentences 

 being alike ; since such expressions and sentences would be 

 repeated in the second letter — whichever that was — as yel 

 fresh in the author's mind from the writing of the first. This 

 repetition occurs in the following examples :$ 



* St. Paul, I am apt to believe, has been sometimes accused oJ 

 inconclusive reasoning, by our mistaking that for reasoning which \va? 

 only intended for illustration. He is not to be read as a man whose 

 own persuasion of the truth of what he taught always or solely de- 

 pended upon the views mider which he represents it in his writings 

 Taking for granted the certainty of his doctrine, as resting upon the 

 revelation that had been imparted to him, he exhibits it frequently tc 

 the conception of his readers under images and allegories, in which 

 if an analogy may be perceived, or even sometimes a poetic resctn 

 blance be found, it is all perhaps that is required. 



Ephes. 1 : 22 1 ( Colos. 1 : 18. 



t Compare \ 4 : 15 > with } 2:19. 



2:15 ) ( 3:10,11. 



Ephes. 2 : 14, 15 ) C Colos. 2 : 14. 



Also { 2:16 > with J 1 : 18-21. 



2:20 ) ( 2:7. 



I When verbal comparisons are relied upon, it becomes necessary 

 to state the original; but that the English reader may be interrupted 

 M little as may be, I shall in general do this in the notes. 



