118 UORJE PAULIJS^. 



his great love wherewith he loved us,) even when we were 

 (lead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ."^ 



Colos. 2 : 12, 13 : " Through the faith of the operation 

 of God, who hath raised him from the dead : and you, being 

 dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath 

 he quickened together with him."t 



Out of the long quotation from the Ephesians take away 

 the parentheses, and you have left a sentence almost in terms 

 the same as the short quotation from the Colossians. The 

 resemblance is more visible in the original than in our trans- 

 lation ; for what is rendered in one place, "the working," 

 and in another the "operation," is the same Greek term 

 evepyeia: m one place it is, rovg TriaTevovrac Kara ttjv kvipyeLav\ in 

 the other, 6La ttjc morecjc Tijg kvepyeiag. Here, therefore, we have 

 the same sentiment, and nearly in the same word^s ; but, in 

 the Ephesians, twice broken or interrupted by incidental 

 thoughts, which St. Paul, as his manner was, enlarges upon 

 by the way,$ and then returns to the thread of his discourse. 

 It is interrupted the first time by a view which breaks in 

 Upon his mind of the exaltation of Christ ; and the second 

 time by a description of heathen depravity. I have only to 

 remark that Griesbach, in his very accurate edition, gives 

 the parentheses very nearly in the same manner in which 

 they are here placed ; and that without any respect to the 

 comparison which we are proposing. 



Ephes. 4 : 2-4 : " With all lowliness and meekness, with 

 long-suffering, forbearing one another in love ; endeavoring 

 to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There 



* Eplies. 1 : 19, 20; 2 : 1, 5 : Tovf TTiorevovTag Kara ri)v evepyeiav 

 TOV Kparovg rfjg Icrxiog airov, 7]v evf/pyTjacv tv tu Xplaru, kyeipag avTov e\ 

 vsKpcJv, Kui EKa-&La£V kv de^ia avrov kv Tolg eTrovpavloig — Koi vfiug ovtuc 

 VEKpovg rdig TiapairTtop-aGt kui ralg cfiapnatg — kui ovrag Vfiug veKpovg toi( 

 ircpaTTTu/xaai, ovve^cjOTcoiTjce rw Xplaro). 



t Colos. 2 : 12, 13 : Aiu rfjg Tnoricjg TTJg bvepyhag tov Qeov tov h/ei- 

 navTog uvtov ek tuv veKpuv. KtU vfiag vEKpovg bvrag kv Tolg wapaTTTuficm 

 %ai Ty uKpofivoTLa rrjg aapKog Vfiiiv, cwe^uoTroiTjoe cvv avTu, . 



J Vide Locke in loc. 



