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variation, supposing St. Paul to have been the author — one 

 point is plain, namely, if the epistle had been forged, and 

 the author had inserted a quotation in it merely from having 

 seen an example of the same kind in a speech ascribed to 

 St. Paul, he would so far have imitated his original as t3 

 have introduced his quotation in the same manner ; that is, 

 he would have given to Epimenides the title which he saw 

 there given to Aratus. The other side of the alternative 

 is, that the history took the bint from the epistle. But that 

 the author of the Acts of the Apostles had not the epistle 

 to Titus before him, at least that he did not use it as one of 

 the documents or materials of his narrative, is rendered 

 nearly certain by the observation that the name of Titus 

 does not once occur in his book. 



It is well known, and was remarked by St. Jerome, thai 

 the apothegm in the fifteenth chapter of the Corinthians, 

 '•Evil communications corrupt good manners," is an iambic 

 of Menander's : 



^dhpovaiv ?]drj XPV'^' GfuTuai KaKoi. 

 Here we have another unaffected instance of the same 

 turn and habit of composition. Probably there are some 

 hitherto unnoticed ; and more, which the loss of the original 

 authors renders impossible to be now ascertained. 



II. There exists a visible affinity between the epistle to 

 Titus and the first epistle to Timothy. Both letters were 

 addressed to persons left by the writer to preside in their 

 respective churches during his absence. Both letters are 

 principally occupied in describing the quahfications to be 

 sought for in those whom they should appoint to offices in 

 the church ; and the ingredients of this description are in 

 both letters nearly the same. Timothy and Titus are like- 

 wise cautioned against the same prevailing corruptions, and 

 in particular against the same misdirection of their cares 

 and studies. This affinity obtains not only in the subject 

 of the letters, which, from the similarity of situation in tho 

 persons to whom they were addressed, might be expected to 



