142 HOR^ PAULINiE. 



gelf upon the recovery of Epaphroditus, in terms which 

 almost exclude the supposition of any supernatural means 

 being employed to effect it. This is a reserve which nothing 

 but truth would have imposed. 



III. Chap. 4 : 15, 16 : "Now ye Philippians, know also, 

 that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from 

 Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning 

 giving and receiving, but ye only. For even in Thessalonica 

 ye sent once and again unto my necessity." 



It will be necessary to state the Greek of this passage, 

 because our translation does not, I think, give the sense of it 

 accurately. 



OlSaTE de Kcic vfielg, ^L/Wnnfjaioi^ on h apxy rov £vayy£?uov, ore l^f/A- 

 &OV u-nb MaKEdoviag, ovdefiia fioc kKn?i7]aia £koivC)VT]G£v, hg loyov 66a£ug 

 KtU }Jr]-\pEUQ, el iiT] vfiEig uovoc on mc kv QecGa/^ovLKri Kut u-a^ kuc, dig eig 

 TT/v rpe^dv uoL k-ifi-djaTE. 



The reader will please to direct his attention to the cor- 

 responding particulars 6n and ore kui, which connect the 

 words h upxy rov £va-yy£?uov, ore £^r]7Sov utco MaKEdovtag, With the 

 words h QEaaalovlKTi, and denote, as I interpret the passage, 

 two distinct donations, or rather donations at two distinct 

 periods, one at Thessalonica, uTra^ Kai 6lg, the other after his 

 departure from Macedonia, ore k^yMov and MaKedoviag.* T 

 would render the passage so as to mark these different 

 periods, thus : " Now ye Philippians, know also, that in the 

 beo-inning of the gospel, when I was departed from Macedo- 

 iiia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving 

 and receiving, but ye only. And that also in Thessalonica 



* Luke 2 : 15: Kac tyEVETO, ug u-t]Mov aif avTcJv hg rov ovpavov 

 oi 'ayy£2.oi, " as the angels were gone away," that is, after their de- 

 parture, at TTOifiEVEg eIttov irpbg u7.7Jri7.ovg. Mat. 12 : 43 : "Orav Sk t^ 

 amddpTov irvevfJ-a e^eMti utto tov av^puTtov, '-when the unclean spirit 

 is gone," that is, after his departure, diipxsTac. John 13:30: 'Ore 

 e^flTi^E (liwdag,) "when he was gone," that is, after his departure, 

 leyE-^ 'l7]oovg. Acts 10:1 : ugde imril^EV 6 'ayyElog 6 7n7L)V rw KopvT/- 

 ^6), •' and when the angel which spake unto him was departed," that 

 is, after Ms departure, ipuvijaag 6vd tuv oIketuv, etc. 



