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raises an idea in the reader's mind that the gospel liad been 

 preached there more than once. The writer would hardly 

 have called the visit to which he refers the '= beginning of 

 the gospel," if he had not also visited them in some other 

 stage of it. The fact corresponds with this idea. If we 

 consult the sixteenth and twentieth chapters of the Acts., we 

 shall find, that St. Paul, before his imprisonment at Home, 

 during which this epistle purports to have been written, had 

 been tivice in Macedonia, and each time at Philippi. 



IV. That Timothy had been long with St. Paul at Phi- 

 lippi is a fact which seems to be implied in this epistle twice. 

 First, he joins in the salutation with which the epistle 

 opens : " Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, 

 to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi." 

 Secondly, and more directly, the point is inferred from what 

 is said concerning him, chap. 2:19: "But I trust in the 

 Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also 

 may be of good comfort, when I know your state. For I 

 have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your 

 state. For all seek their own, not the things which are 

 Jesus Christ's. But ye knoio the 'proof of Mm, that as a 

 son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel." 

 Had Timothy's presence with St. Paul at Phihppi, when he 

 preached the gospel there, been expressly remarked in the 

 Acts of the Apostles, this quotation might be thought to 

 contain a contrived adaptation to the history ; although, 

 oven in that case, the averment, or rather the allusion in 

 the epistle, is too oblique to afford much room for such sus- 

 picion. But the truth is, that in the history of St. Paul's 

 transactions at Philippi, which occupies the greatest part of 

 the sixteenth chapter of the Acts, no mention is made of 

 Timothy at all. What appears concerning Timothy in the 

 history, so far as relates to the present subject, is this : when 

 Paul came to Derbe and Lystra, "behold a certain disciple 

 was there, named Timotheus. . . . Him would Paul have to 

 go forth wdth him." The narrative then proceeds with tht 



