126 KOJLM PAULINA. 



3. In two letters issuing from the same person, nearly at 

 the same time, and upon the same general occasion, we maj 

 expect to trace the influence of association in the order in 

 which the topics follow one another. Certain ideas univer- 

 sally or usually suggest others. Here the order is what we 

 call natural, and from such an order nothing can be con- 

 cluded. But when the order is arbitrary, yet alike, the 

 concurrence indicates the effect of that principle by which 

 ideas which have been once joined commonly revisit the 

 thoughts together. The epistles under consideration furnish 

 the two following remarkable instances of this species of 

 agreement : 



Ephes. 4 : 24, 25 : '* And that ye put on the new man. 

 which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 

 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with 

 his neighbor : for we are members one of another."* 



Colos. 3 : 9, 10 : " Lie not one to another, seeing that yc 

 have put off the old man with his deeds ; and have put on 

 the new man, which is renewed in knowledge."! 



The vice of " lying," or a correction of that vice, does not 

 seem to bear any nearer relation to the " putting on the new 

 man," than a reformation in any other article of morals. 

 Yet these two ideas, we see, stand in both epistles in imm*^- 

 diate connection. 



Ephes. 5:20, 21, 22: "Giving thanks always for all 

 things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord 

 Jesus Christ ; submitting yourselves one to another in the feaj 

 of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands 

 as unto the Lord "$ 



* Ephes. 4 : 24, 25 : Kac hdvaao^at. tov kglvov "av&pcoTrov, rbr <aTd 

 Qsbv KTca^evra ev diKaioovvy kui baLorrjTL ryg a?^7]^iiag' deb uTiodtiievoL ri 

 \pEv6og, TualelTE akrj^tiav EKaarog fieTu tov TT?^'r]aiov avTOv • on kcuhv 0AJI7 



t Colos. 3:9, 10 : M^ tpevdea^e elg uIXtjTmvq^ uTtsKdvaa^evoL rev ta- 

 XaiJbv 'av&po)7zov, cvv ToXg Troa^eatv uvtov, koi hivGcifievoc rbv viov. rdv 

 avaKaivoi'uevov elg emyvucLV. 



t Ephes. 5 : 20, 21, 22 : EvxapiaroiivTeg iravTon virhp ttuvtov, kx 



