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for some considerable time. Paul had found out Aquila and 

 Priscilla, abode with them and wrought, being of the s&me 

 craft ; and reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath-day, 

 and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. Acts 18 ■ 1—5 

 All this passed at Corinth before Silas and TimotheuL were 

 come from Macedonia. Acts 18 : 5. If this was the first 

 time of their coming up with him after their separation at 

 Berea, there is nothing to account for a delay so contrary to 

 what appears from the history itself to have been St. Paul's 

 plan and expectation. This is a conformity of a peculiar 

 species. The epistle discloses a fact which is not preserved 

 in the history, but which makes what is said in the history 

 more significant, probable, and consistent. The history bears 

 marks of an omission ; the epistle by reference furnishes a 

 circumstance which supplies that omission. 



V. Chap. 2 : 14 : " For ye, brethren, became followers of 

 the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus ; 

 for ye also have suffered like things of your own country- 

 men, even as they have of the Jews." 



To a reader of the Acts of the Apostles it might seem, at 

 first sight, that the persecutions which the preachers and 

 converts of Christianity underwent, were suffered at the 

 hands of their old adversaries the Jews. But if we attend 

 carefully to the accounts there delivered, we shall observe 

 that, though the opposition made to the gospel usually orig- 

 inated from the enmity of the Jews, yet, in almost all places, 

 the Jews went about to accomplish their purpose by stirring 

 up the Gentile inhabitants against their converted country- 

 men. Out of Judea they had not power to do much mischief 

 in any other way. This was the case at Thessalonica in 

 particular : " The Jews which believed not, moved with 

 envy, set all the city in an uproar." Acts 17 : 5. It was 

 the same a short time afterwards at Berea : "• When the 

 Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God 

 was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and 

 stirred up the people." Acts 17 : 13. And before this, oiu 



