EPISTLE TO TuE EPIlKblANS. 1:27 



Colos. 3 : 17, 18 : "Whatsoever ye do in word or deed. 

 do all ill the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God 

 and the Father by him. Wives, submit yourselves unto your 

 own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord."* 



In both these passages, submission follows giving of 

 thanks, without any similitude in the ideas which should 

 account for the transition. 



It is not necessary to pursue the comparison between the 

 two epistles further. The argument which results from it 

 stands thus. No two other epistles contain a circumstance 

 which indicates that they were written at the same, or near- 

 ly at the same time. No two other epistles exhibit so many 

 marks of correspondency and resemblance. If the original 

 which we ascribe to these two epistles be the true one, that 

 is, if they were both really written by St. Paul, and both 

 sent to their respective destination by the same messenger. 

 the similitude is in all points what should be expected to 

 take place. If they were forgeries, then the mention of 

 Tychicus in both epistles, and in a manner which shows that 

 he either carried or accompanied both epistles, was inserted 

 for the purpose of accounting for their similitude ; or else 

 the structure of the epistles was designedly adapted to the 

 circumstance ; or lastly, the conformity between the con- 

 tents of the forgeries, and what is thus directly intimated 

 concerning their date, was only a happy accident. Not one 

 of these three suppositions will gain credit with a reader 

 who peruses the epistles with attention, and who reviews 

 the several examples we have pointed out, and the observa- 

 tions with which they were accompanied. 



II. There is such a thing as a peculiar word or phrase 

 cleaving, as it were, to the memory of a writer or speaker, 

 ivoiiaTL rov Kvplov ?)fj.cJv ^Itjgov XpiGTOv, tu Qeu kol Tzarpi, VTroTaoaSfievoi 

 xX?iJjh)LC £v <p6(3u Qeoi: Al yvvcuKtc, -^olg idioig uvdpuacv VTTLiTuacEa&e, 

 6f Tu Kvplc) 



* Colos 3 : 17, 18 : Kuc irav b,Tc uv 7roi/}-e, h 7.6yio^ rj Iv IpyCfi, ncvT^ 

 •V ovoftart Kvpiov ^hjaov, ei'xapLCTOvvTEC r<p Qeu Kci 'Karpl 6C avrov. Ai 

 •tTOi/cff, vnoTaaaeade rolq iSioig uvt^puaLV^ ug avijKn' ev Kvpuj. 



