194 HOR^ PAULINA. 



capital of that countrj', he proceeded into Macedonia, and 

 crossing the peninsula in his progress, came into the neigh- 

 borhood of Nicopolis, we have a route which falls in with 

 every thing. It executes the intention expressed by the 

 apostle of visiting Colosse and Philippi, as soon as he should 

 be set at liberty at Rome. It allows him to leave Titus at 

 Crete, and Timothy at Ephesus, as he w^ent into Macedonia ; 

 and to write to both not long after from the peninsula of 

 Greece, and probably the neighborhood of Nicopolis ; thus 

 bringing together the dates of these two letters, and thereby 

 accounting for that affinity between them, both in subject 

 and language, which our remarks have pointed out. I con- 

 fess that the journey which we have thus traced out for St. 

 Paul is, in a great measure, hypothetic ; but it should be 

 observed, that it is a species of consistency which seldom 

 belongs to falsehood, to admit of an hypothesis which in- 

 cludes a great number of independent circjumstances withora 

 contradiction. 



