EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS. Vd7 



in llie parallel passage of the epistle to the Colossians, the 

 same allusion is not preserved : the words there are, " pray- 

 ing also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utter- 

 ance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I a??i also in 

 bonds,'' 6C b mc Sidefiai. After what has been shown in a 

 preceding number, there can be little doubt but that these 

 two epistles were written by the same person. If the writer, 

 therefore, sought for, and fraudulently inserted the corre- 

 spondency into one epistle, why did he not do it in the other ? 

 A. real prisoner might use either general words which com- 

 prehend this among many other modes of custody, or might 

 use appropriate words which specified this, and distinguished 

 it from any other mode. It would be accidental which form 

 of expression he fell upon. But an impostor, who had tho 

 art in one place to em.ploy the appropriate term foi the 

 purpose of fraud, would have used it in both places 



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