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accompanying ideas are similar. In both places, they are 

 immediately preceded by the mention of his present suffer- 

 ings ; in both places, they are immediately followed by the 

 mention of the mystery which was the great subject of his 

 preaching. 



Ephes. 5:19: "In psalms and hymns and spiritual 

 songs, singing and making melody in your hearts to the 

 Lord."^ 



Colos. 3:16: "In psalms and hymns and spiritual 

 songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."! 



Ephes. 6 : 22 : " Wliom I have sent unto you for the 

 game purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he 

 might comfort your hearts. "$ 



Colos. 4:8: " Whom I have sent unto you for the same 

 purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your 

 hearts."^ 



In these examples, we do not perceive a cento of phrases 

 gathered from one composition, and strung together in the 

 other, but the occasional occurrence of the same expression 

 to a mind a second time revolving the same ideas. 



2. Whoever writes two letters, or two discourses, nearly 

 upon the same subject, and at no great distance of time, but 

 without any express recollection of what he had written 

 before, will find himself repeating some sentences in the 

 very order of the words in which he had already used them ; 

 but he will more frequently find himself employing some 

 principal terms, with the order inadvertently changed, or 

 with the order disturbed by the intermixture of other words 

 and phrases expressive of ideas rising up at the time ; or in 



* Ephes. 5:19: "i^alfiolg kui vfivoig, Kai udaig TTvevfiarucaig "adovre; 

 <ui rpa?2ovT£g kv ry Kapdia v/iuv tu Kvptu. 



t Colos. 3:16: "J'c/l^oif kui viivolc kui tjdalg livev/xantiaig, h x^tpLU 

 gdovTcc £v Ty Kapdca vficJv rw Kvpiu. 



t Ephes. 6 : 22 : 'Ov iTzenipa npbg v/idg elg av-h rovro^ Iva yvcbre rci 

 TFpt Tjfiuv, Kai irapaKokicri rag KapSlag vfzCJv. 



§ Colos. 4:8: 'Ov iirefXTpa Tzpog vfidg elg avrb tovto, Iva yvuTE rfi 

 repl vficJv, KUI TzanaKaMari rag Kapdlac viu.v. 



