EPJSTLE TO THE PillLlTPlANS. IIA 



account of St. Paul's progress through various provinces of 

 the lesser Asia, till it brings him down to Troas. At Troas 

 he was warned in a vision to pass over into Macedonia. In 

 obedience to which, he crossed the iEgean sea to Samothra 

 cia, the next day to Neapolis, and from thence to Philippi. 

 Ilis preaching, miracles, and persecutions at Philippi followed 

 next : after which Paul and his company, when they had 

 passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, came to Thessa- 

 lonica, and from Thessalonica to Berca. From Berea the 

 brethren sent away Paul, "but Silas and Timotheus abode 

 there still." The itinerary, of which the above is an ab- 

 stract, is undoubtedly sufficient to support an inference that 

 Timothy was along with St. Paul at PhiUppi. We find them 

 setting out together upon this progress from Derbe, in Lyca- 

 onia ; we find them together near the conclusion of it, at 

 Berea, in Macedonia. It is highly probable, therefore, that 

 they came together to Philippi, through which their route 

 between these two places lay. If this be thought probable, 

 it is sufficient. For w^iat I wish to be observed is, that in 

 comparing, upon this subject, the epistle with the history, 

 we do not find a recital in one place of what is related in 

 another ; but that we find, what is much more to be relied 

 upon, an oblique allusion to an impfied fact. 



Y. Our epistle purports to have been written near the 

 conclusion of St. Paul's imprisonment at Ptome, and after 

 a residence in that city of considerable duration. These 

 circumstances are made out by different intimations, and 

 the intimations upon the subject preserve among themselves 

 a just consistency, and a consistency certainly unmeditated. 

 First, the apostle had already been a prisoner at Rome so 

 long; as that the reputation of his bonds, and of his con 

 stancy under them, had contributed to advance the success 

 of the gospel : "But I would ye should understand, breth- 

 ren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen 

 out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel ; so that my 

 bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in aU 

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