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" forsaken him, and is gone to Thessalonica." The opposi- 

 tioa also of sentiment, with respect to the event of the per- 

 secution, is hardly reconcilable to the same imprisonment. 



The two following considerations, which were first sug- 

 gested upon tliis question by Ludovicus Capellus, are still 

 more conclusive : 



1. In the twentieth verse of the fourth chapter, St. Paul 

 informs Timothy, that " Erastus abode at Corinth," 'Bpaaroi 

 £/xeivei' ev Koplvdu. The form of expression implies, that Eras- 

 tus had stayed behind at Corinth w^hen St. Paul left it 

 But this could not be meant of any journey from Corinth 

 which St. Paul took prior to his first imprisonment at Rome ; 

 for when Paul departed from Corinth, as related in the 

 twentieth chapter of the Acts, Timothy was with him : and 

 this was the last time the apostle left Corinth before his 

 coming to Rom.e, because he left it to proceed on his way to 

 Jerusalem ; soon after his arrival at which place he was 

 taken into custody, and continued in that custody till he was 

 "arried to Cesar's tribunal. There could be no need, there- 

 fore, to inform Timothy that "Erastus stayed behind at Cor- 

 inth" upon this occasion, because if the fact were so, it must 

 have been known to Timothy, who was present, as well as 

 to St. Paul. 



2. In the same verse our epistle also states the follow ing 

 article : " Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick." When 

 St. Paul passed through Miletum on his way to Jerusalem, 

 as related Acts 20, 21, Trophimus was not left behind, but 

 accompanied him to that city. He was indeed the occasion 

 of the uproar at Jerusalem in consequence of which St. Paul 

 was apprehended ; " for they had seen," says the historian, 

 " before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom 

 they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple" 

 This was evidently the last time of Paul's being at Miletus 

 before his first imprisomnent ; for, as has been said, after 

 his apprehension at Jerusalem, he remained in custody till 

 he was sent to Rome. 



